Would This Man Recognize His Party Today?

[napkinz]

[lunatica]

1. Sadly for his party he would not be surprised.

[napkinz]

3. I would like to think he would say, to borrow from the guy who destroyed his party ...

"I didn't leave the Republican Party, they left me."

[jody]

2. Would the person below?

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EDIT to add his statement:
"When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

[Ikonoklast]

6. Jefferson was a States Rights advocate; he would have been a Republican today.

He opposed a strong federal government.



...and he was a lousy president, actually.

[jody]

7. People change so what about this president?

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

How can cherry picking statements a person has said describe her/him?

I've come to accept that people with great strengths also have great weaknesses.

[WinkyDink]

4. Ike should have run as a Democrat, as the Party wanted him to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_Eisenhower_movement

[bluestate10]

5. He would be ridiculed and shunned.

And driven from his party.

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. He would probably notice that they changed their name to Democratic. n/t

[HopeHoops]

9. No. And rMoney wouldn't recognize a dime.