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To: Grand Old Partisan
If he were alive today, Thomas Jefferson would a limosine liberal.

Don't think so

On Sodomy (and crime and punishment) Whosoever shall be guilty of Rape, Polygamy, or Sodomy with man or woman shall be punished, if a man, by castration,

On guns

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.

27 posted on 07/03/2003 8:33:24 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
Jefferson talked the talk but rarely walked the walk.
28 posted on 07/03/2003 8:37:26 AM PDT by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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To: Tribune7
You have to keep in mind the times in which these were written. To treat them as if they were written today is a mistake which would make anyone of that era seem quite conservative.
30 posted on 07/03/2003 8:43:43 AM PDT by ConstitutionLover
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To: Tribune7
J's opposition to games in that quote is indicative of his hatred of competition and conflict and his ungainly and awkward movements. That part of it sounds exactly like the Liberal tendency to avoid such competition.

His alliance with the Clintonians and Burr in New York was the beginning of the use by the DemocRATs of the big city machine-Southern racist coalition which has dominated most of the history of the DemocRATic party.

Jefferson was definitely the forefather of the DemocRATic party and used the Big Lie as often and as manipulatively as the modern RAT. He was anti-Military and anti-pro-American foreign policy and a fanatic wrt the French Revolution even after it became terrorist.

None of the proto-RATs of his party were anti-gun so that part of the quote has nothing to do with anything.
36 posted on 07/03/2003 8:55:44 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
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