Could Abraham Lincoln win today's Republican 2012 Presidential Nomination?

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   My Esotericposted 12 years ago

   Could Abraham Lincoln win today's Republican 2012 Presidential Nomination?
   
   I will ask this question with a past famous President or personage. I thought it might be interesting to see who knows their history or just their myth.

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   ZIa Ahmed khanposted 12 years ago

   no, he can not. Only tea party and their lobbies and financiers can win

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   Rock_njposted 12 years ago

   The answer is "No".  Abraham Lincoln was a raging liberal by middle 19th Century standards.  He wanted to end the conservative establishment of slavery and even took the nation to war to do so.  The conservative establishment today (which is represented mainly by Republicans) would be in favor of continuing slavery, just as the conservative establishment represented mainly by Democrats in the 1860s wanted to continue the institution of slavery.
   
   The Republican Party of the 1860s and in the decade afterward was undoubtably a "liberal" political party by modern political definitiions.  They believed in using the power of the federal government to bring about dramatic change to end slavery and then to impose the will of the federal government on the Southern states during reconstruction.  Much has changed in the Republican and Democratic parties since then.

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   Old Empresarioposted 12 years ago

   A lawyer for the railroad industry with no formal education, who cracks jokes, is politcally savvy, yet has almost no politcal experience in DC or anywhere else?--Absolutely! (He even served briefly in the national guard, if the rest didn't convince you)

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   stanwshuraposted 12 years ago

   I sure as hell hope not!  His is a biography and legacy I truly respect, even if terminology (minus "whigs", "confederacy" and so forth) have come to mean a politics, ideology, governmental function and culture that assigns the political parties names that are 180 degrees away from what they meant some 7 score and odd some years ago!

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   IntimatEvolutionposted 12 years ago

   No.  He isn't attractive enough and his wife's physic readings and stuff would never fly with today's public.  They'd think she was too looney.  Funny how that has all changed from then to now.  We are far more judgmental these days.

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   My Esotericposted 12 years ago

   Not a chance, none of what Abaraham Lincoln believed in fits in with the Tea Party/Conservative ideology.

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