Lincoln is yielding to Reagan

[ckramer]

AUSTIN - The Harris County Republican Party, along with some other county parties in Texas, is laying aside the traditional Lincoln Day Dinner this year to hold a Reagan Day Dinner in honor of former President Reagan, who died last year.

For decades, a dinner honoring President Lincoln has been a midwinter feature of local Republican parties across the United States. In the late 1990s, some local parties started calling their fund-raising soirees the Lincoln/Reagan Day Dinner.

The trend has accelerated since Reagan's death last year, and some Texas counties have changed the names of their events next month to Reagan Day Dinner.

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[ArtVandaley]

1. Good

Lincoln was the greatest president in American history and his beliefs were the polar opposite of the those of the current republican party. Let Reagan be their hero, let Lincoln be a hero to AMERICANS!

[Journeyman]

2. Mr Lincoln was not a Republican at the end. . .

In 1864, he renamed the Republican Party the "National Union Party," and took his second inaugural oath under that banner. Just a little Lincolnia you can use to stir the pot with a wingnut or win big bucks on Jeopardy some day.

[superconnected]

22. good, because I always liked lincoln and didn't know people associated him

with reps until this election.

[KamaAina]

3. Uh, when was Reagan Day again?

I can't recall... :spank:

[TahitiNut]

6. Just think ... each year it'll be "The First Annual Reagan Day Dinner"!

:evilgrin:

:spank: :spank:

[Canuckistanian]

4. Is it Reagan day so soon?

Where does the time go.....

[Deja Q]

15. Down the toilet, it seems... This country needs some Liquid Plumb'r...

the pipes are clogged with filth.

[Rockerdem]

23. Dont laugh, this is only a prelude to a push for a nat'l Gipper holiday

There's a well funded group agitating for stuff like that and theyre serious. Theyre so aggressive that they would push George Washington aside. No kidding.

[catzies]

24. Yeah, I know it comes up so suddenly it seems

And we have nothing to wear. :eyes:

[many a good man]

5. Gray to Red

Don't a lot of people still revile Lincoln in the old Confederacy and border states? Isn't that now the Republican base? It only took forty years for the solid south to take over the GOP.

Instead of Blue & Red maybe we should start talking about Blue & Gray.

[nolabels]

7. Reagan's Birthday

I will change my floating holiday from Ground Hog's day to it instead :crazy:




In an insane society, the sane man would appear insane

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[Algorem]

8. The Asshole Reagan Asshole Dinner For Assholes

[daleo]

9. Lincoln was becoming an embarrassment to Republicans

Maybe those speculations about his sexuality were too much. More likely it was his making war on the south and freeing slaves. And I believe they now consider Reagan to be a minor deity in the heavens. How long until a constellation is renamed Reagan?

[BeyondGeography]

10. Lincoln to Modern-Day Republicans: Drop Dead

If only we could speak from the grave...

[Princess Buttercup]

11. Reagan Day?

Can you just declare a holiday like that? I guess if you're a Republican you can do anything you want.


Of course I notice this is happening in Texas, where I'm surprised they didn't just go ahead and name it Bush the Great Savior of the World Day. Gag.

[CatholicEdHead]

19. Both of those may be around the corner soon

I would expect 3 day weekends around "Reagan Day" eventually, or even Shrub.

[Melynn]

20. My thoughts exactly

Ten years from now, they will change "Reagan Day" to "Bush Day".

Whatever.

[ithacan]

12. absolutely disgusting

replacing the man who was elected based on an antislavery platform with a war criminal, racist and all around terrible person.

Tells us a lot about Harris County republicans, and Texas republicans.

But to be truthful, it's a hell of a lot more accurate for them to be celebrating war criminal and racist Reagan, who is a perfect representation of today's GOP. Lincoln on the other hand would be denounced as a liberal antiAmerican if he were around today.

[yorgatron]

13. i think Lincoln would not want to have anything to do with these

assholes :mad: let them call it reagan day.a phoney to represent phoneys is OK by me.

[Deja Q]

14. That filthy anti-american TRAITOR? Read this then tell me he's not.

http://liberalslikechrist.org/Reagan/index.htm

[Piperay]

16. Finally they ended that bit of hypocrisy

Lincoln doesn't fit their party and dropping his name is sure to give them a lock with the racist vote.

Additional irony is that the actor Raygun killed Lincoln off. x( It really is disgraceful but hey if they don't want to claim Lincoln anymore than we should.

[Babel_17]

17. A favorite Lincoln quote:

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.

Surprised at republican distancing am not. :)


Here's the quote within the context it was spoken. Lincoln respected capital.

http://archive.8m.net/lincoln.htm

[captainslack]

18. This shouldn't be a surprise

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be a Democrat.

Think about it: the slavery issue in today's terms would translate to civil rights. Which party has traditionally supported that? Not Republicans, that's for sure.

[VegasWolf]

21. Ray Gun day! Damn, I need some batteries!n/t

[UL_Approved]

25. The revisionism mounts

Now these people are going after the guy who gave the Emancipation Proclamation. Do these people have an end?

Now this has me wondering. Is the Bush plan really nothing more than a continuation of the Civil War? Think about it. They want to cut jobs and manufacturing from the North. This trend is coupled with re-writing history and denigrating national heroes. They want to cut civil rights, and they want to have Plantation economics in place. Anybody getting this yet?

[Guns Aximbo]

26. gag me with a salami

I can't think of anything that is more dull than that... except for the Bush Inaugural Ball.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. A day worth forgetting

to be sure.