In Kingsport Tennessee there's a newpaper that recently published an article about "Abe Lincoln" republicans and what it means to modern politics. I could not let that Lawyer SOB's slander pass without comment. here is my reply I bet 50 bucks it does not get published.
BT
To the editor of the Kingsport Times.
The recent column “America needs more Abe Lincoln Republicans” by D. Bruce Shine, pointed out that a lot of today's Republicans are from the old “Dixiecrat’ states and wing of the Democrat party. Those folks, he said, moved to the Republican party. He then went on to name a host of "old " moderate" Republican's and how they worked with the Democrats "for the good of America". I'd like to point out that in recent years very few Democrats have even attempted to work with Republican's. They've opposed every effort and offered no compromise. Bruce then implied how bad and how radical modern Republicans are if they disagree with Democrat positions on social and foreign policy issues. His“old” republicans were "moderate" and, by inference, todays are not because they disagreed with the Democrat agenda.
I’d like to point out that most of the leading politicians of today’s Democrat Party are from the old socialist/ communist wing of the Progressive Party headed by Roosevelt’s vice president, Henry Wallace, or have adopted his views.

Wallace was booted from the Democrat ticket in 1944 for his Pro Stalin, Pro Communist leanings and statements and went on to become the presidential candidate of the communist dominated Progressive Party. He lost the election by a wide margin in 1944 but gained control of the progressive party and used it to launch his anti-Democrat Party candidacy in 1948. That’s the same year the “Dixiecrats" left the Democrat party to run on their ticket.

In 1948, one of the leading delegates to the Progressive Party convention was George McGovern. George went on to become a U.S. congressman and senator and brought a lot of his old Progressive Party cronies with him to Washington and positions of influence in the Democrat Party. In 1972 his wing gained control of the party and he became the presidential nominee. Since that time the far left “Progressive Wing”, of the Democrat Party , has been allowed to define the “real” democrats and consolidate control of the party to promote the socialist, anti-American, anti-military views of the old Progressive Party. Very few national candidates in the Democrat Party have gained power or high office unless they firmly embraced the Henry Wallace view of America. A “Peoples Democracy” along socialist lines. To top it off, since 1972, the Democrat Party and it’s supporters have undermined every American effort to achieve freedom, adequate military security, social stability or real growth in most area’s of the world. They have embraced radical, anti-American causes, promoted unlimited , un-controlled immigration and defined all who opposed them as “ racists”, "xenophobic” or “far right wing nuts”. Those were the tactics of the old communist and socialist parties in the 1950s except the communist had the added word “ reactionary” to describe those who opposed them. In the 1970s I was appalled to see that tactic and those views happen in the party of my father and grandfathers. I grew up in Kingsport and know the party history in that region. I heard it as a child.

So Bruce, since you pointed out that we need more Republicans like Lincoln, I’d like to point out to you that we need more Democrats like Thomas Jefferson and Andy Jackson.

The party of Jackson and Jefferson was hijacked by a bunch of socialist in 1972 and is still in their hands today. I’m sure Jackson and Jefferson would be as appalled as I am at the course of the modern Democrat Party,and would happily join me in switching support to Republican candidates.

Bob Taylor

Ft Worth, TX