Mark Wonsil writes:

> 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, 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

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