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Happy Birthday GOP!

By: Bob Parks (Diary)  |  March 20th, 2009 at 08:18 AM  | 

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Click here to read about the 155th anniversary of the Republican Party

On March 20, 1854, fifty-eight civil rights activists called for all opponents of slavery to unite in a new organization, to be called “the Republican Party.” This name had a past as well as a future, since Thomas Jefferson and many other Founders had called themselves “Republicans.”

Someone may want to remind the Republican National Committee, whose website makes no mention of this.

They’re not returning my calls.

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  • E Pluribus Unum

    Good note, blackandright! It was not on my calendar either.

  • randy streu

    the GOP isn’t having an identity crisis, per se… it’s having a MIDLIFE crisis.

    Which is basically an identity crisis that lasts up until the point it realizes life doesn’t suck all that much after all.

    The question is, do we give it a few years to dye its hair, drive the fast car around town and chase some skirts — or do we smack it around a little and threaten divorce if it doesn’t start paying attention at home and spending time with the kids?