The Party of Lincoln, by Doug Abramson – The Guest Spot
In MOTU’s latest rant, he marveled that “the party of Lincoln has become the party of dicks”. I had to laugh at that. Not the party of dicks, everyone knows that the GOP is run by assholes, but the party of Lincoln. The Republican Party, the Grand Old Party, the Party of Lincoln, the party that was formed to fight slavery and then fought to save the country has been dead for a long time. It didn’t happen all at once. In fact, it took most of the 20th Century.
The first death came in 1909, when Teddy Roosevelt left the White House in favor of his political ally William Howard Taft. While old TR wasn’t anti-Big Business, he did believe that they needed to be regulated for the public good. By public good, I mean that their products won’t kill the customers. When Taft became president, he reversed these policies. He chose Wall Street over Main Street. When Roosevelt decided that the party was letting the country down under Taft, he decided to run again in 1912. Long story short, the party big wigs decided that they wanted to be in Wall Street’s pockets more than winning the White House again. They’ve been in Wall Street’s pockets ever since.
The second death ocured in 1948 when the “Dixiecrats” walked out of the Democratic Convention to protest pro-civil rights policies in the party platform. The Democrats let the cracker bastards walk. Left to their own devices, they might have wondered around the political wilderness for a few years and died out. That didn’t happen. The GOP decided that votes in the South was more important than their founding principles and welcomed the bastards with open arms. They’ve been against civil rights ever since.
The third and final death started in 1972. In 1972, as part of his campaign to consolidate Republican power in the South, Nixion let the Christian Right taking over the party like the pod people ever since. The “Party of Lincoln” was started by people who felt that God wanted them to free a people from bondage. Now, thanks to the Christian nut jobs in charge, it wants to put everyone in chains to their warped view of God, and Big Business.
I started out by saying that the GOP was run by assholes. While that is true, it isn’t really fair. The real assholes are the ones that keep voting Republican.
Doug Abramson lives in Southern California and suffers through the Chargers and Padres seasons every year.
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January 24th, 2011 at 1:56 pm
“The real assholes are the ones that keep voting Republican.’
Amen.
January 24th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
I always marvel how partisan folks think their party’s poop don’t stink.
I said it before and I’ll say it again: Some of the sleaziest, most vicious, and most crooked people I’ve known in my lifetime have been Democrats.
And some of the nicest, fairest and most honest people I’ve known have been Republicans.
In both cases, the reverse is also true. So, from my vantage point, neither side has a moral high ground, no matter how much guys like Beck and Olbermann argue otherwise.
For example, I won’t support any politician — Republican or Democrat — who I find out is fiscally irresponsible, i.e., someone who over-mortgages this country’s long-term future to score short-term political points.
Does that make me a Republican? No. Clinton was obviously a Democrat, but he (and a Republican-run Congress) managed to finally balance the federal budget. Kudos to both sides for making that happen.
For the past eight or nine years, however, both sides started spending like drunken sailors, and we are now at a point where things are out of control. I don’t care which party addresses the issue, I just want it addressed.
January 24th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
R. Maheras,
I never said that the Democrats’ shit don’t stink. I didn’t say anything about the Democrats at all, other than the Dixiecrats left them. That being said, until quite recently I was a registered Republican. I sat there watching the shit pile higher and higher until I couldn’t stand the stink any more.
January 24th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
I’ve said quite a few times that I share many conservative viewpoints. Here again are my major issues with the GOP:
1. Stay the fuck out of my bedroom.
2. Don’t tell me I’m not an American if I don’t believe in YOUR God or choose not to believe in any.
3. I have a heart.
There’s a few more but those are the major ones.
Oh wait,…
4. PIMP SLAP Rush, Beck Palin and anyone else who teaches hate.
5. Embrace the power of porn.
Yeah-that will do it.
January 24th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Doug wrote: “I never said that the Democrats’ shit don’t stink. I didn’t say anything about the Democrats at all, other than the Dixiecrats left them. That being said, until quite recently I was a registered Republican. I sat there watching the shit pile higher and higher until I couldn’t stand the stink any more.”
You didn’t say anything about the Democrats at all? Sure you did. We have a two-party system, and all you did was rake the Republicans over the coals (erroneously, I might add — especially regarding Civil Rights). So despite your protestation, your silence about the Democrats speaks volumes.
I’ve never endorsed either party because I think there are, and always have been, plenty of assholes on both sides of the aisle.
January 24th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Pimp-slap Rush? The greatest power-trio ever? Perhaps the best thing to come out of Canada since maple syrup on back bacon?
Now, you wanna pimp-slap this Limbaugh turkey, be my guest…
January 25th, 2011 at 1:39 am
Johnathan(the other one),
Why are you insulting a great American institution? I mean the bird, not the Oxy freak. Ben Franklin thought that it should be our National Bird. Considering that the average non-domesticated (I’m not giving anyone an easy booze joke) turkey is smarter than a large section of the American public, it would have been a good choice. The domesticated bird, however, makes a burnt out crack head look smart.
January 25th, 2011 at 1:49 am
R Maheras,
Let me try this one more time. The post isn’t about the positive merits of the Democratic, Libertarian, Green, or Cocktail Party. (Although that last one has a lot of promise) Its about how the GOP got from its 1860 policies to today’s, and my personal disgust and distaste for where it has wound up. As for my assesses of their Civil Rights history and record, let’s agree to disagree.
January 27th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
I’m not sure of the content of the overall interview, but it looks like Richard Dreyfuss and I fundamentally agree about at least one thing: Both parties are pretty much the same…
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/actor-richard-dreyfuss-i-ceased-being-de#