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Why Won't They Leave Lincoln Out of It?

I wish so very much that the Republicans would stop -- STOP -- using Abraham Lincoln's name, claiming him to be the loving forebear to right-wing ideology.

If you watched the RNC, you might have caught the tribute video to Lincoln the other night. Nauseating. The subject wasn't nauseating, of course. It was the fact that the Repubs used his name, his values, his politics and his respect for the U.S. (hanging on as it was by a thread) and its Constitution as though they actually shared them. They don't.

"We are the party of Lincoln," they say over and over and over again to crowds of stupid people who seem unaware that Republican 2008 is completely different from Republican 1860. I want to hear Doris Kearns Goodwin, awesome historian and author of the equally awesome Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, on the subject.

Anyway, a quick rant after seeing this on MSNBC.com today:

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