Conservative Repubs now disowning Roosevelt and Lincoln

[eridani]

http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/415952_JOEL01.html

If speakers at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., had their way, the visages of Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln might get sandblasted off Mt. Rushmore.

The two greatest presidents elected under the Republican Party banner were, it seems, guilty of "progressivism," in Roosevelt's case, and advancing "centralized government and the pursuit of empire," with the Great Emancipator.

[Skidmore]

1. What the heck is a "conservative Republican" these days?

[eridani]

2. The ones at CPAC, presumably n/t

[Sherman A1]

3. The conservative label simply doesn't work anymore

for the GOP. The Dems are probably more conservative in what I would call the true sense. The GOP is off in La La land somewhere.

[Betty Karlson]

8. I consider myself to be an old-style conservative.

And more at home with the Democratic Party. The GOP is not conservative anymore. It's activist, progressive in the wrong direction, insanely ideological, in the persuit of a land that never was and never will be. It has replaced orthodoxy with orthopraxis. It has detached itself from reality.

Call it whatever you want. But not conservative. Burke would turn in his grave if he heard it.

[Sherman A1]

9. Agreed

We are all conservative in some things and liberal in others.

I think the GOP is simply the insane party.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. This is not new. The John Birch Republicans never liked either.

For years now liberals have pointed out that TR, Lincoln and even Nixon would be rejected by the NeoBirchers if only their policies and not their affiliation were the basis for the discussion. Since the Republicker Bircher party is collapsing onto itself into a tighter and tighter ball of ideological singularity, it is only natural that their icons must undergo the same extreme purification process that is required of their rhetoric. Theirs is a shringking world, only kept alive this long by the Corporate/Bircher Media machine.

[proteus_lives]

5. Idiots.

Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were two of the greatest Americans that ever lived.

[OHdem10]

6. The Republicans have been trying to dismantle FDR's New DeaL

and continue to this day.

Lincoln's Emancipation of Slaves was a bit too much I guess.

[tom_paine]

7. I've been predicting that for years.

They'd better be careful, because if they actually READ the Founding Fathers, they'd despise:

Tom Paine
Ben Franklin
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson

and many MANY more.

It deosn't surprise me that they would disown Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln.

I've known for years how they would despise them, if they knew anything about them.

Roosevelt and Lincoln would have despised them back, since the toxic fusion of Corporatism with RW Authoritarianism is pretty well completed now.