Just heard an ol' fella on Washington Journal complaining that Americans don't understand history.

[asdjrocky]

Then he went on to describe himself as a 17th/18th century republican.

Is there a history book no one told me about?

[marmar]

They just don't understand his version of it......

..... which I suspect isn't like Howard Zinn's.

[saltpoint]

1. Was he a hip-hop Republican or a heavy metal Republican? That would

give us some direction. We may have to ring up Michael Steele. He seems to be on top of things.

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:hi:

[asdjrocky]

4. I'm pretty sure he was adult contemporary.

Or maybe a big fan of the modern cw format.

:hi:

[saltpoint]

5. LOL!

[joecool65]

2. Do you mean 17/18th century?

nt

[asdjrocky]

6. Yes I did, thanks.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. I guess the rumors how Lincoln was the first candidate from the fledgling

Republican party were exaggerated.

[asdjrocky]

8. It was liberal media of the mid 19th century. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. Filled with truthiness, bias, and error.

[xchrom]

7. He was an idiot -- with A misplaced

Confidence in his notions.

[joecool65]

9. Nothing like having an American political party

before there was an America.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Is he related to the lady who took her xmas tree down on xmas eve?

[asdjrocky]

11. I remember her!

Gawd I'm such a Washington Journal junkie.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. She was from Kansas!

We have some major crazies here.

[asdjrocky]

13. Ca has all kinds here.

Around the corner where I grew up there was what my Mom and Dad called a "John Birch House" and they told me to stay away.

I did.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. Toto, too!

When will Kansas start on its next creationism movement for its high skules?

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. We got rid of the idiots on the state school board

Being a national embarrassment worked wonders on election day.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. That's great news. Do you still have that rectus maximus

as the state's attorney general?

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Oh gawd no

He was beat by a Democrat in '06. Then he became my county DA (appointed by the precinct chairs to fill a vacancy) and 18 months later he was beat in the GOP PRIMARY by a moderate.

About this time last year, he moved to VA where he is teaching law at Liberty U.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

20. Congrats again, and why am I not surprised about his current gig?

Liberty U. heh. Brainwashing for lawyers.

[firstnamefred]

15. UNDERSTAND history? H===, they don't KNOW any history. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. Was he referring to "republican" or Republican.

There were people who were republicans back in the 17th/18th centuries. Hell, Rome was a Republic...until they turned it over to their version of the MIC.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

22. still an idiot. they called themselves

anti-federalists, and wrote articles against those geniuses who drafted the Federalist Papers. Both groups of docs (available on iPhone with US historical documents app) are well worth a read. And many of the ideas could easily be applied today to our teabagger wars.