[PhiKapMom]

Recently I have been putting up articles that relate to our upcoming TakeBackCongress.org campaign that is going to be launched here on FR shortly. Our aim is to generate support for Republican candidates for the Senate and the Congress to enable Republicans to Take Back the Senate and Keep the House.

Thought it would be a good time to remind Freepers on here that will be supporting Republican candidates around this Great County a little about our Republican Heritage with some great photos included thanks to Senator Bill Frist and his website for the National Republican Senatorial Committee!

[PhiKapMom]

Posted this also to have anyone that wants to get on the TakeBackCongress.org ping list a chance to sign up here. We will be spotlighting key races around the Country here on FR as we launch this campaign for Freepers to get involved.

If you have a key race to be spotlighted, please Freep mail ffrancone or myself. We also still need volunteers in some states with key races to give us some opposition research.

Thanks!

[Alberta's Child]

A Republican Congress enacted dramatic legislative accomplishments such as welfare reform leading to significant drops in welfare rolls nationwide, the first balanced budget in a generation, and historic tax cuts.

A few years ago I had the opportunity to point out to a Republican Congressman that the "balanced budget" he had taken credit for in an address at the conference I was attending was a total fraud. Using excess Social Security tax revenue to balance the Federal budget was no different than a U.S. corporation adding its employee pension contributions to its revenue.

The look he had on his face was both pathetic and priceless -- kind of like, "So you know how full of sh!t we really are."

[Wait4Truth]

Great post, Mom! Great pics, too. Good to read something positive and uplifting AND TRUE about our Party! Bump to taking back the Senate!

[4CJ]

With President Lincoln at the helm, the United States defeated the Confederacy in the Civil War and preserved the union. Lincoln's Republican ideals of freedom for all began to heal the national rift between the North and the South.

Lincoln was a Whig, and advocated economic policies (higher taxes, protective tarrifs, federal subsidies for business, a national bank and paper money (inflationary) and pork-barrel projects, etc.) that todays modern Republican Party opposes. His suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was declared unconstitutional by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, yet Lincoln refused to comply with the decision. Almost 14,000 northerners were illegally and unconsitutionally jailed for voicing dissent againt Lincoln, and hundreds of northern newspapers were closed despite the 1st amendemnt protections of a free press. Additionally Lincoln favored colonization/repatriation of blacks, not equal treatment as American citizens. At least Mr. Zak can get the history correct.

That said, I consider myself republican/libertarian because of the "modern" party platform - smaller government - more personal freedoms, less taxes, and the recognition of states rights an limited, enumerated federal powers. The government envisioned by my favorite President, Ronald W. Reagan.

"It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government."
Ronald W. Reagan, 1st Inaugural Address, 20 Jan 1981.

[A2J]

In response to the terrorist attacks against America, President George W. Bush proposed the most extensive reorganization of the federal government since the 1940s by creating the cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security.

It is ludicrous to create a problem bigger than the one you're trying to fix.

Bush has done just that and the Republicans are bragging about it.

Boy, do I miss Ronald Reagan.

[poet]

"The Republican Party has a proud history"

Unfortunately, that is past history. There is no resemblance of those people of yesteryear to the modern republicrats. I see them copying the democrats domestic programs on a daily basis.

The admin is very close to ( if not there already) to spending trillions of new dollars for social programs and "security".

The foregoing is fact, not, republicrat bashing.

Unless and until they start to obey their sworn oath to uphold the Constitution, this independant voter will not vote for either party.

Don't think for a moment that politicians are out to better our lives, rather, they are out to enrich themselves.

Three certanties: Death, Taxes, Betrayal by politicians regardless of the labels.

[GOP_Lady]

What a wonderful article!  Thanks for the post! This is why I am so very proud to be a Republican.
	GOP_Lady

[My2Cents]

I could have guessed that a post that referenced both Abraham Lincoln and George W. Bush in the same article would bring the Lincoln/Bush bashers out in force. Most of them are too busy still fighting the Civil War to provide any positive help in the political battles of 2002.

[GirlNextDoor]

OUR REPUBLICAN HERITAGE

All cleaned up and looking fine. Hey, don't look under that rug...

rah, rah, rah !

[Mo1]

More venom from Terry McAuliffe and his party


http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20020814.shtml

[July 4th]

Republicans championed equal rights for all Americans and, in particular, for African-Americans. The GOP passed the 13th amendment banning slavery, the 14th amendment extending the Bill of Rights to the states, and the 15th amendment according voting rights to African-Americans.

Think about how few people beyond Free Republic know this.

[Consort]

[.30Carbine]

Bookmarking Bump!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"My husband and I find strength in the word of the Lord, and we realize the power that prayer has in our own lives," Laura Bush said. "I'm truly blessed to be married to a man who's strong enough to bear the burdens and humble enough to ask God for help." Link

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.. "A great people must spend time on bended knee, in humility, searching for wisdom in the presence of the Almighty."

Prayer, the president said, "sweeps away bitterness and heals old wounds. Prayer leads to greater humility and a more grateful spirit. It strengthens our commitment to things that last and things that matter. It deepens our love for one another."
A Prayer for Holy Week

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President Bush's Message for the Holidays:

... Mr. Bush said, "faith brings confidence that failure is never final, and suffering is temporary, and the pains of the earth will be overcome. We can be confident, too, that evil may be present and it may be strong, but it will not prevail."

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This is today's Republican party:

Courtesy of Human Events

Perfect, hardly...but we went up against the most powerful propagandists in history and won. That's a miracle that I am very grateful for after listening to the left, our profs, pols and press post-9-11, not to mention the 700,000 NGO mostly leftist busybody mischief makers opining, consorting with our enemies almost daily and counter-manding current US policy around the world.

The Amish are looking mighty good....but then there's Osama and Hillary and McAuliffe and PP, NOW, ABC, CNN, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, the non-leftists around the world who are looking to us for strength - in No. Korea, China, Indonesia, England, France, etc. I'm in. (^:

[Selara]

Thanks for the good article. Please add me to the Ping list, if I am not already on it. Thanks!