I've always seen the GOP as a pro-legislated order institution that is always willing to raise taxes until there is a revolution. Also, the 1860 platform couldn't be as anti-slavery as a faction of the party wanted it to be but it was quite in favor of the Hamilton/Clay School.
Reading the GOP's 1868 (or the 1872 if not the 1868 one) platform, they make it clear they have an emphasis on social and economic order.
In 2012, 158 years after its founding, there is really no difference between how Romney would govern and how Lincoln would govern if he were alive today... the ultra-scripted and unnaturally orderly 2012 RNC seemed like something that came right of Alexander Hamilton's anus.
In 2013, 159 years after its founding, they control a majority of the State legislatures and governorships that have raised taxes the highest they've been since they forced the Old South to pay for the destruction caused by Lincoln.
How could anyone think the founders of it were more anti-slavery than pro-legislated order?
Reading the GOP's 1868 (or the 1872 if not the 1868 one) platform, they make it clear they have an emphasis on social and economic order.
In 2012, 158 years after its founding, there is really no difference between how Romney would govern and how Lincoln would govern if he were alive today... the ultra-scripted and unnaturally orderly 2012 RNC seemed like something that came right of Alexander Hamilton's anus.
In 2013, 159 years after its founding, they control a majority of the State legislatures and governorships that have raised taxes the highest they've been since they forced the Old South to pay for the destruction caused by Lincoln.
How could anyone think the founders of it were more anti-slavery than pro-legislated order?
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