> > Wirt Atmar wrote:
> >  > Chuck writes:
> >  ...
> >  >>  BTW... I am not a registered Republican. I am an 
> anti-liberal  >>  
> > American who despises everything the liberal agenda 
> represents and  >>  
> > sees the Republican party as the best of the available 
> options at  >>  
> > this time, but in no way as perfect.  >
> >  > What Chuck has written here may seem to come across as a little
> >  > harsh, but in Chuck's defense, let me say what we wrote 
> comes across
> >  > much better when read in the original German.
> >
> >  In Wirt's defense, he is a registered Republican. 
> > (http://tinyurl.com/uep1)

Yes, he has made that claim before.

I could walk down and register as a democrat at any time as well, but
that would not mean I actually believed in or supported their ideas.

> 
> Yes, that's true, but only in the sense of Abraham Lincoln's 
> Republicanism. Otherwise, I'm also a card-carrying 
> Jeffersonian Democrat.
> 
> My simple test for Republicanism is simple: can you ever 
> imagine Lincoln saying what Chuck wrote? Or what Tom Delay, 
> Trent Lott, Dick Armey, Mitch McConnell, Strom Thurmon, Pat 
> Robertson, Jerry Falwell or Dick Cheney commonly say (or said)?
> 
> Wirt Atmar

While your method of calling me a Nazi was mildly amusing, and actually
a double insult since the Nazi party was socialist as well as murderous
(or is that redundant), I must admit I find your attempt to align
yourself with President Lincoln's philosophy humorous.

Comments are my own, not my employer's... Etc.

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