No the party of Lincoln is now the party of Hugo Chavez, same as the Democrats.
yeah, yeah, Mona,we get it...you’re so virtuous...
No. But the socialist-democrats are now the party of Hitler, Mao, and Stalin/Lenin, all rolled up into one.
The socialist-democrats are the new american NEO-NAZI party.
No. The party of Lincoln knew how to deal respectfully of people like Lee.
The DNC is trying to scrub their history. That’s what is happening right now.
The totally unwarranted self-righteousness just reeks off of prim and proper Mona.
How many people do you suppose are in ANTIFA?
What percentage of our population would they be?
These are a bunch of paid hell raisers.
Obama was in office for eight years and not a peep about statues.
They’re just prostitutes.
They’re paid to screw around.
I guess the cocktail party invitations are pending.
I think we’re conservatives who like to conserve and preserve. Conservation and preservation.
My great grandfather was part of the Army that fought Lee. After the war, he gave his kids the middle name “Lee” - out of respect for the commander of the army he had fought against. One of his sons, my grandfather, did the same.
Oddly enough, none of the kids had “Lincoln” as part of their name...
One of the concepts I learned about in my military studies was
The Golden Bridge.
If you are in combat with someone, give them a chance to quit the fight.
Maybe you offer to let them surrender.
Maybe you let them leave the battlefield but without their heavy equipment.
If you fight someone and make it a fight to the death, then it’s a fight...
To the death.
After four years of War in this country, I think that everyone, everyone, was tired of the butchery.
The Union offered acceptable terms to the Confederate Soldiers and the awful fighting was done.
The Union leaders didn’t make it a fight to the death.
They gave the Confederates a Golden Bridge to go over.
I think that part of this Golden Bridge was that the Confederates could respect their military leaders.
I think that we had a lot of families who had family members in the Confederate Army and they want to respect them.
I believe that we should allow those families the continuation of The Golden Bridge.
Any statues dedicated to slavery, honoring slavery, should be removed.
Wow, even Mona is selling us out to become an attention whore.
Go to hell Mona Charen. You’re nothing but a nevertrumper, lying b*tch!
I am not familiar with the incident to which she refers. But it is well known that not only did Grant treat Lee & his men with the greatest respect at the surrender; Grant threatened an actual mutiny if the radicals were to arrest Lee, afterward.
Whether the "Nazis" at the rally were genuine supporters of the German Socialist movement, or people playing some sort of role for some other ulterior purpose, it is doubtful that the flag wavers were more committed to imposing monolithic socialist uniformity on America than the counter-protestors, who clearly embraced the tactics the Brownshirts employed in the early 1930s, to intimidate all dissent from the eventual Nazi takeover.
In the clash of those unable to tolerate any dissent, Donald Trump was completely right to lay the blame for the rumble on those who came for that purpose. And completely right to recognize that everyone there was not a party to that intention.
As for General Lee? Miss Charon would have to look long & hard to find a nobler man in any land, at any time. Nor will she find one more genuinely revered by Conservative Americans North & South. His example, after the war, did more than any other to promote reconciliation, based upon mutual respect!
In a galaxy far far away, the party of Lincoln used to be the party of Washington and Jefferson. You know, that thing called the U.S. Constitution.
The Left, media, academia, Hollywood and the Democrat party are the domestic enemy that I took an oath to defeat.
All bets are off.
5.56mm
She doesn’t know her history. At the end of the War, Lincoln wanted to reunite the country, not put his boot on the neck of the South and beat it to death.
Another one-time-sensible voice on the right jumps the tracks - even Stuart Varney is starting to wobble - is it really so critical to show that yes you don’t like racists and Nazis just like everybody else that you lose perspective and sight of who really caused the violence in Charlottesville and is the real threat to this country? - it’s for sure not a couple of hundred silly folks advocating causes that are long dead for all intents and purposes.....
Another historical illiterate.
The parties have in fact changed sides of the aisle since the War Between the States. 1860 Democrats were limited government social and political conservatives with roots in Jefferson’s Anti-Federalism. 1860 Republicans were big government liberals taking their lead from Hamilton’s Federalism.
It’s not conjecture or political hyperbole, it’s historical fact. What once were Republicans now are Democrats, and what once were Democrats now are Republicans.
It’s been the party of RINO for sometime now.
Mona Charen is a National Review Never-Trumper
On May 23, 2016, she called Mr. Trump an “authoritarian ignoramus”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435743/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-never-trump-people
It is sad watching her and the NR crowd pathetically struggling to be relevant during the Trump Era. Their pride will not let them admit they were wrong. They refuse to admit that the economy is doing pretty well, that Trump has put a conservative on the Supreme Court, that ISIS in Syria has mostly been destroyed and the Fatty in North Korea is, for the moment, backing down. Let’s see, how many of those things would have happened with Jeb! or Mittens in the WH?
Mona, without Southern pride and conservatism the USA would be fully socialist by now on the way to Communism