Why don't today's Conservatives know Abraham Lincoln was Liberal?

[wtinc]

I can see you don't know history and that a shame because if you did you would know better there liberal. You really should up date your current political knowledge too.

[Cleopatra Jones]

Abraham Lincoln was a Yankee that was against Southern States Rights.

100 years ago Republicans were Northern Yankees and Democrats were Southern States Rights but the 2 parties switched over ideologies after Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy in the 1960's that's why today 90% of Southern White Voters are Republican today.

THERE'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND POLITICAL PARTY.

[Judson Boutivar]

He wasn't my President ... My president was Jefferson Davis !!

[RockIt]

Because a liberal in 1860 has nothing whatsoever in common with a modern day liberal from 1960-present.

Todays modern liberal would repulse Lincoln so much, he would have nothing to do with them.

Try talking about gay marriage with Lincoln and see what he thinks.
Try talking about a free ride on the state's back for life

If Lincoln saw what would become of blacks in America, he would have stopped the war immediately and began deportation of all blacks from America immediately.

See how that conversation goes with Lincoln

[mckenziecalhoun]

Let's see.

1) Keeping black people as their personal property.
2) Keeping black people dependent.
3) Having KKK members leading the party.
4) Called, "Democrat".

Sorry, that's my party, "Democrats".

If we want to TRULY switch gears:

1) Set black people free to be in EITHER party, and don't go after black people as "Uncle Toms" or otherwise treat them badly just because they are in other parties.
2) End welfare as we know it. It doesn't work.
3) Remove the last vestiges of Southern racists from our midst.
4) Kick out the socialists from our party (especially the "Democratic Socialists Party of America" members, like Pelosi, Franks, and more than a hundred others who are using our party for their new agenda rather than freedom and equality).

Until then, I'll keep kicking us in the shins until we get the idea that we can't lay claim to the "swtich" idea until we ACTUALLY LIVE UP TO IT.

[Jessica]

The parties definitely reversed. I am annoyed when Republicans talk about it being the party of Lincoln. He was the first Republican president but he was not a modern day Republican. He didn't pretend to be religious, either.

[mckenziecalhoun]

Let's see.

1) Keeping black people as their personal property.
2) Keeping black people dependent.
3) Having KKK members leading the party.
4) Called, "Democrat".

Sorry, that's my party, "Democrats".

If we want to TRULY switch gears:

1) Set black people free to be in EITHER party, and don't go after black people as "Uncle Toms" or otherwise treat them badly just because they are in other parties.
2) End welfare as we know it. It doesn't work.
3) Remove the last vestiges of Southern racists from our midst.
4) Kick out the socialists from our party (especially the "Democratic Socialists Party of America" members, like Pelosi, Franks, and more than a hundred others who are using our party for their new agenda rather than freedom and equality).

Until then, I'll keep kicking us in the shins until we get the idea that we can't lay claim to the "swtich" idea until we ACTUALLY LIVE UP TO IT.

[Classical Liberal Jochan]

I am not a conservative, but it's pretty common knowledge that most slave owners, KKK members, and those for segregation were conservative Democrats.

Democrats switched to the Republican Party after Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964.

He said "we've lost the South for a generation", and right he was.

[Charlie Rangle]

That would explain him curtailing freedom in his illegal war of aggression on the Southern Confederacy. I wake up every day and wish the South had gained it's freedom.

[Obama bites the big one]

Lincoln hated civil liberties and acted like a prima donna, damn shame Booth didn't whack him 3 years sooner. Maybe the South would be free today.