{"id":384,"date":"2004-08-31T21:48:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T04:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/the-party-of-lincoln\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T21:48:42","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T04:48:42","slug":"the-party-of-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/mine\/the-party-of-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"The Party of Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard Arnold Schwarzenegger tell the Republicans he is proud to be in ‘the Party of <\/p>\n

Lincoln’ (they were quiet, then even hostile when he invoked ‘the Party of Teddy Roosevelt’ — Roosevelt, don’t we hate him? — but <\/p>\n

finally cheered at ‘the Party of Ronald Raygun’).<\/p>\n

The Party of Lincoln — yeah, I want to hear Georgian Zell Miller embrace the <\/p>\n

Party of Lincoln (and Sherman, as y’all know). Best not to remind former Dixiecrats that this is the Party of Lincoln — that dog won’t <\/p>\n

hunt. Only way folks have been able to stomach the Party of Lincoln is cuz it’s also not the Party of Civil Rights (delivering the rest <\/p>\n

of what Lincoln promised). Sure would be nice to get Raygun on the $5 bill and get rid of ole Lincoln.<\/p>\n

How did the Party of <\/p>\n

Lincoln<\/em> get a lock on the South? Where did all those voters who supported George Wallace go? If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. <\/p>\n

Just don’t ask Arnold, he was still groping iron when the Federal Government became the enemy of Jim Crow.<\/p>\n

If you believe the <\/p>\n

government is accountable to the people and not the other way around, you’re a Republican — according to Arnold’s script. BUllSHit. <\/p>\n

From day one, this administration has embraced secrecy beyond even the paranoid Nixon. Secrecy is the key to avoiding accountability. <\/p>\n

This administration supports countless measures that restrict individual freedom, making us all accountable to the government. This is <\/p>\n

the Party of the Patriot Act, the Party of Free Speech Zones, the Party of Ashkraft.<\/p>\n

Oh, but everybody loves Arnie. After the <\/p>\n

Republicans, the Party of Thurmond, of Helms, of Lott, amends the Constitution to curtail freedom (but only of women and gays — at <\/p>\n

first) and codify bigotry (er, I mean, to defend the sanctity of marriage, divorce, infidelity and spousal abuse between a man and his <\/p>\n

woman), then they can amend it to allow foreigners to become President (well, white ones). mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard Arnold Schwarzenegger tell the Republicans he is proud to be in ‘the Party of Lincoln’ (they were quiet, then even hostile when he invoked ‘the Party of Teddy Roosevelt’ — Roosevelt, don’t we hate him? — but finally cheered at ‘the Party of Ronald Raygun’). The Party of Lincoln — yeah, I want … Continue reading The Party of Lincoln<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}