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TheMastersNemesis

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28. For The Most Part They Were Pricks W/Some Exceptions That I Failed To Mention.

Reply to beachbum bob (Reply #18)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 04:27 PM

Aug 2018

Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Ford were more the exception. For the most part the GOP has been anti worker, and anti environment. It is truly ironic that Democrats were pro slave in their past. And it is ironic that the Dixiecrats got Medicare passed.
Even Nixon did some exceptional thing.

The GOP really turned sour with the advent of Reagan.

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Post Lincoln The GOP Has Always Been A Party Of Pricks & Dicks. [View all] TheMastersNemesis Aug 2018 OP

republicans pissed all over America's veterans after World War I Achilleaze Aug 2018 #1

Maybe post Reagan, but not post Lincoln... Dennis Donovan Aug 2018 #2

Perhaps During The Eisenhower Administration. TheMastersNemesis Aug 2018 #3

With the exception of Gerry Ford, I would have said post-Nixon DFW Aug 2018 #7

Southern Strategy DownriverDem Aug 2018 #13

You beat me to it SCantiGOP Aug 2018 #20

What about Theodore Roosevelt? Aside from his penchant for war, he cleaned up a Sophia4 Aug 2018 #4

TR becoming president was an accident. rickyhall Aug 2018 #9

Exactly DownriverDem Aug 2018 #14

True! Sophia4 Aug 2018 #24

My dad was a staunch Democrat, but he liked Ike. Sophia4 Aug 2018 #25

Teddy also True Blue American Aug 2018 #12

you seem to FORGET that republicans help pass the civil rights laws in the 1960's beachbum bob Aug 2018 #5

Who welcomed them? DownriverDem Aug 2018 #15

until the 80's, we still had moderate republicans, I am replying to the OP beachbum bob Aug 2018 #18

That's why a lot of young people in the early 60s SCantiGOP Aug 2018 #21

many of us started off our early years as a republican as there was a time when the GOP beachbum bob Aug 2018 #22

Right SCantiGOP Aug 2018 #27

For The Most Part They Were Pricks W/Some Exceptions That I Failed To Mention. TheMastersNemesis Aug 2018 #28

Lincoln was a populist stooge front man for northern capitalists bucolic_frolic Aug 2018 #6

They've had their..... paleotn Aug 2018 #8

Who they are DownriverDem Aug 2018 #10

Not True Botany Aug 2018 #11

Teddy Roosevelt and Warren G. Harding were infinitely better on race than Woodrow Wilson... DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #16

I, for one, will not sit here jayschool2013 Aug 2018 #17

In the fall of 2016, some weeks before the election, luvtheGWN Aug 2018 #19

In my part of the country, SCantiGOP Aug 2018 #23

The party of the racists remained the Democrats Progressive dog Aug 2018 #26