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Major Nikon

(36,818 posts)
7. The South didn't want anything to do with the party of Lincoln for 100 years
Fri Apr 25, 2014, 08:39 PM
Apr 2014

The GOP was on the side of the North. The Southern Strategy changed all that. Once the Democrats kicked the bigots to the curb, the GOP welcomed them with open arms.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
4. Party of Lincoln - scratch. Party of Eisenhower - scratch. Party of Reagan?
Fri Apr 25, 2014, 08:21 PM
Apr 2014

Scratch.

Party of the child of Ann Coulter and David Duke? Check.

longship

(40,416 posts)
5. That's the wrong Lincoln.
Fri Apr 25, 2014, 08:30 PM
Apr 2014

It's this one. Some DUers will undoubtedly remember him.

Picture: George Lincoln Rockwell


Here's his Wiki: George Lincoln Rockwell. And yup! He was assassinated in 1967, allegedly by one of his own. Nazis inevitably end up eating their own.

That's the Lincoln that the GOP abides by these days.

longship

(40,416 posts)
8. So there ARE other old fart DUers, other than me.
Fri Apr 25, 2014, 08:46 PM
Apr 2014

Pleased to meet you, my friend.


And yup! One can only hope that today's GOP self-destructs like Mr. Lincoln Rockwell did, by being eaten from within. It is what they deserve for their utterly corrupt, contemptible, and dishonest agenda.

Like an over zealous parasite, their agenda will devour the host party. One only hopes that it will happen before it devours the country.

Best wishes.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
9. I lived in NOVA for a while as a kid, and their office was in Arlington. We used ...
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 02:24 PM
Apr 2014

to prank call them all the time.

back atcha!

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