What kind of Republican are you?

[Anarchist420]

Since the Republican Party has many faces, I figured I'd ask what kind of Republican people were. Everyone could identify with the Republican Party at one point, just like everyone could identify with the Democratic Party at one point. If Dr. Paul lived 120 years ago, he'd be a Bourbon Democrat. However, since Wilson changed the face of the Democratic Party, he's a Harding/Bob A Taft/Charles A Lindbergh Republican.

 

[Zebo]

LOL@ not having the greatest on there.

Almost zero unemployment
Paid off crushing debt
highest working class income
Lowest gini index
lowest crime rate
built infrastructure we depend on today.

Take a guess.

 

[Linflas]

LOL@ not having the greatest on there.

Almost zero unemployment
Paid off crushing debt
highest working class income
Lowest gini index
lowest crime rate
built infrastructure we depend on today.

Take a guess.

Coolidge?

 

[DesiPower]

I have all kind of views... I am not exactly a republican either...

 

[Zebo]

Coolidge?

 

[Linflas]

Actually as a southerner I have to overcome my own biases and ask how could the greatest Republican president really be anyone other than Lincoln?

 

[CallMeJoe]

I also note our benighted OP omitted the least Republican of our Republican presidents, despite his appearance on a certain mountainside in South Dakota.

No option for Progressives?

 

[werepossum]

The reluctant, nose-holding kind.

 

[CaptnKirk]

Based on the way the party has moved over the last decade,
I'm very close to being an 'Ex-Republican'.
Todays party no longer stands for what they used to be.

 

[HAL9000]

What if you're not a republican?

 

[cubby1223]

What if I don't model my views after any former President?

 

[Zebo]

Actually as a southerner I have to overcome my own biases and ask how could the greatest Republican president really be anyone other than Lincoln?

Wow. That's probably the worst and I was born in California. Locking up reporters and 10,000 fellow Americans, killing over a million, Trashing 10th Amendment forever.

 

[Ronstang]

LOL@ not having the greatest on there.

Almost zero unemployment
Paid off crushing debt
highest working class income
Lowest gini index
lowest crime rate
built infrastructure we depend on today.

Take a guess.

I would have to say Eisenhower.

OOps....I didn't scroll down past your question to see it had already been answered.

 

[werepossum]

Wow. That's probably the worst and I was born in California. Locking up reporters and 10,000 fellow Americans, killing over a million, Trashing 10th Amendment forever.

He kept the union together, and he ended (however poorly) the practice of some people keeping other people as property. Gets my vote for greatness, even if greatness with great big honking warts.

 

[Zebo]

He kept the union together, and he ended (however poorly) the practice of some people keeping other people as property. Gets my vote for greatness, even if greatness with great big honking warts.

Slavery was well on it's way out in antebellum south. That war was about money like they all are. And "right to revolution" is codified by our founders in their writings and actions. Overall bad move.

I know history books have been re-written to make us look all compassionate but if you really think northern whites gave a crap about blacks let alone willing to die in massive numbers for blacks in 1860s you need to read this:
http://mises.org/journals/jls/18_4/18_4_3.pdf

It's a nice fairy tale though. I bet today (see darfur) whites would not die in masse to help black people let alone 1860s.

 

[Anarchist420]

Slavery was well on it's way out in antebellum south. That war was about money like they all are. And "right to revolution" is codified by our founders in their writings and actions. Overall bad move.

I know history books have been re-written to make us look all compassionate but if you really think northern whites gave a crap about blacks let alone willing to die in massive numbers for blacks in 1860s you need to read this:
http://mises.org/journals/jls/18_4/18_4_3.pdf

It's a nice fairy tale though. I bet today (see darfur) whites would not die in masse to help black people let alone 1860s.

Couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, the Northern merchants were responsible for the slavery up to that point, because they wanted Constitutional protections for industry. If there had been no protectionism, then the South would've been content to not have a 3/5 compromise and probably to give up slavery. That guy needs to read some Thomas J DiLorenzo. The black codes up north were pretty damn harsh.

The Morrill Tariff was why the CounterRevolution broke out. I call it the War to Preserve Government Revenue, the War to Preserve Constitutional Protectionism, or the War to Preserve Corporate Welfare from the State.

@Linflas: Where are you originally from? Manassass isn't considered southern.

 

[bamacre]

The reluctant, nose-holding kind.

 

[bamacre]

Wow. That's probably the worst and I was born in California. Locking up reporters and 10,000 fellow Americans, killing over a million, Trashing 10th Amendment forever.

:thumbsup:

 

[Lemon law]

Bullshit Bullshit says I, while I like Abe better than Ike, I would better identify as a teddy Roosevelt Republican.

And our current GOP are a 180 % different than a TR

 

[Steeplerot]

FDR

 

[bamacre]

He kept the union together, and he ended (however poorly) the practice of some people keeping other people as property. Gets my vote for greatness, even if greatness with great big honking warts.

I don't believe the ends justified the means. And I think the issue of slavery was less significant a motivation than the vast majority of people want to believe.

"Keeping the union together" obviously wasn't a mutual goal, . IMO, the states created the Union, the states can individually leave it, or collectively cancel it. I can't foresee either happening in the near future, but I believe that option should remain. Besides, I have a difficult time believing, in today's world, Americans would fire on each other.

When the band you're in starts playing different tunes...

 

[rudeguy]

I'm a Clinton Republican.

Where the fat girls at?

 

[Thump553]

Very lapsed and will never return so long as the GOP is the party of the religious authoritarians.

 

[Zebo]

Bullshit Bullshit says I, while I like Abe better than Ike, I would better identify as a teddy Roosevelt Republican.

And our current GOP are a 180 % different than a TR

Another great forgotten in poll. Why are when things are kicking ass and humming along nicely they are forgotten? It's almost like we like disaster presidents.

 

[HAL9000]

I think the most important think forgotten in poll is if you are not republican, I find them scary.