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Michelle
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posted 02 September 2007 06:59 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I know it's a gay lobby group within the Republican party. But I don't get what "log cabins" have to do with gays and lesbians.

Can anyone enlighten me? I thought of it because last night on CNN there was a representative from the Log Cabin Republicans on as a pundit in the whole Larry Craig scandal.


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posted 02 September 2007 07:02 AM      Profile for Threads     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Abraham Lincoln was born in one. A log cabin, that is.
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Michelle
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posted 02 September 2007 07:07 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I still don't get it. What does that have to do with being gay?
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Michelle
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posted 02 September 2007 07:13 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh...never mind. I get it now, Threads, thanks - you were right! Here's a reference to it from their web site:

quote:
The name of the organization is a reference to the first Republican President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, who was born in a Log Cabin. President Lincoln built the Republican Party on the principles of liberty and equality. The party should return to its roots. When the organization was founded, the name, "Lincoln Club" was already taken by another GOP group, so organizers settled on the name Log Cabin Republicans.

LCR


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posted 02 September 2007 07:17 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So what did the representative on CNN say???
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Michelle
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posted 02 September 2007 07:22 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
He tut-tutted about how "inappropriate" Craig's actions were and agreed that he should resign.
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posted 02 September 2007 07:26 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ah well, no one tut-tuts like a Republican.
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posted 02 September 2007 08:20 AM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't know what it is, but putting those two innocuous terms together just somehow sounds rude.
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Stockholm
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posted 02 September 2007 12:29 PM      Profile for Stockholm     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Believe it or not the Republican party was first created on a single issue platform of abolishing slavery. I guess these self-hating gay Republicans want to go back in time to that period, when the GOP were the "good guys"
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Paul Gross
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posted 02 September 2007 01:15 PM      Profile for Paul Gross   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
http://google.ca/search?q=Abraham+Lincoln+gay
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Malcolm
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posted 03 September 2007 09:36 PM      Profile for Malcolm   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:
Believe it or not the Republican party was first created on a single issue platform of abolishing slavery. I guess these self-hating gay Republicans want to go back in time to that period, when the GOP were the "good guys"


In fact, the Republicans were the good guys for the better part of a century after their creation in the 1850s. They were the party that abolished the slave trade and they were the party that attacked the trusts. They had a platform plank supporting an Equal Rights Amendment (for women) until the 1980s.

The drift of the Republican Party, arguably, was in response to the way FDR effectively wrapped up the progressive side of the electoral spectrum between his election in 1932 and his death in 1945. Nixon's "southern strategy" (a naked appeal to white resentment of blacks in the wake of desegregation) moved the process along immeasurably.


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posted 04 September 2007 10:00 AM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's a bit simplistic to describe the Republicans as the "good guys." They were formed from the remanants of the Whig and "No Nothing" parties. They retained the notable features of each: protective tariffs and nativism. They were the party of the financial elite and of WASPs. They also tended to be the more imperalistic of the two parties. Nonetheless, they had a progressive wing typified by people like LaFallote and Teddy Roosevelt. After the 1912 split in which TR ran as an independent, the party became more and more conservative.
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Ken Burch
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posted 05 September 2007 10:09 PM      Profile for Ken Burch     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The swing of the Republican Party towards the dark side can actually be traced to the disputed presidential election of 1876.

In that election, the Democratic candidate, Samuel Tilden, had won 154 electoral votes(one short of victory). The Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes had 135. Three states, with 20 electoral votes between them, were in doubt, and each state had submitted TWO sets of election results, one giving the state to Hayes, the other to Tilden.

Congress set up what was called the Electoral Commission, a fifteen member board made up of seven Republicans, seven Democrats and one Independent, to attempt to resolve the dispute. But the commission kept voting 7-7, with the Independent either abstaining or voting for somebody else. Finally, the Democrats(who were the truly evil party at this point, the party of Indian slaughterers and recovering slaveowners), made this proposal to the Republicans:

They would agree to let the Republicans replace the Independent member of the commission with a Republican, thus electing Hayes, IF the Republicans would agree to end Reconstruction(the post-Civil War military occupation of the former Confederacy)and to suspend the constitutional amendments granting racial equality to African Americans. The Republicans agreed to this, thus abandoning their abolitionist heritage once and for all, the "Jim Crow" system of brutal racial segregation was clamped in place for a century, and both U.S. parties are forever shamed by this devil's bargain.


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