If Abe Lincoln was liberal why the Republican Party is conservative?

MeltingMediaEAC · Nov 21, 2008

The tug-of-war began under Grant, and finally the last of the Lincolnites left in 1912 with Teddy Roosevelt. Grant was the first GOP president to pander to big business.

Check the Republican presidencies of the 1920s and you will see they had long ago abandoned their original principles. It is a joke for people to claim "We are the party of Lincoln." Lincoln would abhor the neoconservatives and the religious right, since he was an atheist.

ronny · Nov 21, 2008

It is not supossed the republicans to be liberal too?

budleit2 · Nov 21, 2008

How on Earth do you come up with Abe Lincoln was a liberal?

markd · Nov 21, 2008

Abe Lincoln wasn't liberal. It's as simple as that.

budleit2 · Nov 21, 2008

How on Earth do you come up with Abe Lincoln was a liberal?

JENNI · Nov 21, 2008

Actually, the parties have kind of flip flopped in their stances. The Republican party was actually founded as a party of inclusion particularly for minorities. In the 1900s dems were still fairly right (think Harry Truman) but much of this changed completely with presidents like Roosevelt.

If Abe Lincoln was liberal why the Republican Party is conservative?

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