What Did Lincoln Really Think of Conservatives? ~ Eric Smith

~ By Eric Smith

"Conservatives/Republicans claim that they are not racists & pursuing racist policies because President Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and he freed the slaves. Fair enough. However that said, what did Abraham Lincoln really think of Conservatives? Well if you want to know all you have to do is point to what he said in his famed Cooper Union speech delivered on February 27, 1860 in New York City; the year he was later elected President of the United States when he asked "What is Conservatism? Is it not the old and tried against the new and untried?" Not much of an endorsement of Conservatism is it so of course it's not surprising that Conservatives/Republicans never mention what Lincoln really thought of Conservatism."

"Now what would Lincoln say of today's Conservatives/Republicans threat to do major damage to our country by shutting down the government and sending America into default if Obamacare is not destroyed? What would he say of their claims that President Obama and the Democrats will bear sole responsibility for the resulting national disaster which will arise from a government shut down and a default on our national debts because they did not cave to Conservative demands to defund/destroy Obamacare? Probably the same thing he said later in that same speech in regards to Conservatives vow to destroy the nation if slavery was not made universal & permanent all across the land when he stated the following:"

"In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!"

"So this is precisely what today's Republican Party is doing right now. It is literally holding a gun to America's head and muttering "Stand and deliver, (destroy Obamacare) or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!" Sorry Republicans but if America dies because of your actions then it will be you and you alone who killed it because it is you and you alone who are holding a gun to this nation's head; it is not the other way around. There is a word for this of course; what these Republicans are doing, and that word is treason."