Harry Reid Egregiously Inaccurate of GOP’s History
Posted on : 09-12-2009 | By : dtager | In : Uncategorized
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By Christopher Malagisi
Senator Harry Reid’s ignorant and partisan comments yesterday likening Republican opposition of socialized health care to that of slavery is egregiously and historically incorrect. The Democrat Senate Majority Leader should brush up on his American history as it was the Republicans – not the Democrats – who led the fight and ultimately ended slavery in America.
The Republican Party was formed in 1854 as a coalition of three groups – the remnants of the Whig Party that believed in a limited federal government, Free Soil Democrats who were at odds with their political party having passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act – the act which repealed the Missouri Compromise, and slavery abolitionists who believed slavery was morally wrong and violated the rights of man.
In 1860 the Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln as their nominee for President – the man eventually responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, winning the Civil War, and ending slavery.











