http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/04/25/what-abraham-lincoln-would-say-about-todays-republican-party
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > At 09:02 AM 8/13/2013, you wrote: > > ... Lincolns Republican Party does not exist anymore!!! > > > > I'd say the current Republican Party emulates the 'Lincoln Republican Party' > rather well. > What ideals do you suggest formulate the 'Lincoln Republican Party'? > > Regard$, > --MJ > > Lincoln becomes the American solar myth, the chief butt of American > credulity and sentimentality...the varnishers and veneerers have been busily > converting Abe into a plaster saint...Worse, there is an obvious effort to > pump all his human weaknesses out of him, and so leave him a mere moral > apparition, a sort of amalgam of John Wesley and the Holy Ghost. What could > be more absurd? Lincoln, in point of fact, was a practical politician of > long experience and high talents, and by no means cursed with idealistic > superstitions...his career in the State Legislature was indistinguishable > from that of a Tammany Nietzsche.-- H.L. Mencken, "Abraham Lincoln," The > Smart Set, May 1920. Reprinted in A Mencken Chrestomathy, pp 221-23. > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- brine http://brineb.blogspot.com/ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
