Re: RE: RE: Political ads with phone numbers

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 00:17:20 -0500 "A. Joseph Ross"
<lawyer@attorneyross.com> writes:
> 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.


I found it in a very interesting biography of Lincoln written by David
Herbert Donald.
df