Re: RE: RE: Political ads with phone numbers

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 5 Nov 2002 at 11:46, Dave Faneuf wrote:

> Which means at the time of it's creation it was a "third" party.  

I guess we have to figure out what constitutes a "third" party.  Especially when there's only 
one major party.  The fact of the matter is that the Republican Party was established to be 
the new second party, and it was that from the very beginning.

> They broke away from the Whigs to form the Republican Party (why they
> are called the GOP escapes me).  

I'd love to know where that one came from.  I've long suspected that it was a deliberate 
choice and tied somehow to the Republican Party's long-standing tactic of impugning the 
patriotism of their opponents.

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