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Will Ron Paul Destroy the 'Party of Lincoln'?

- Tom DiLorenzo -

I've never read such distortion of history as comes from the mind of Tom DiLorenzo. Joseph Goebbels said words to the effect, "tell a lie long enough and people will believe it." Well, DiLorenzo has been distoring the truth about Lincoln, the North, and General Sherman for quite a while now -- and by the looks of his ratings he is being belived. Why is no criticism ever leveled at the institution of Slavery or the Southern generals who killed to support it by Tom DiLorenzo??? I've drawn my conclulsions, you draw yours.

His inane oft repeated line is that Lincoln started the Civil War, ignoring the fact of the initiation of force by the South against Fort Sumter. Lincoln never wanted a war and did his utmost to avoid it, even comtemplating purchase of the South's slaves or at least limiting the institutuion to those states where slavery was already established. His goal, at first, was not to end slavery but to stop its expansion: the destruction of the Missiouri Compromise by Douglas and the Southern Demoscrats being his motivation.

Slavery was going to end peacefully???? How can DiLorenzo ignore that slavery STILL exists in parts of the world? Had Lincoln not responded to Southern agression or settled for peace, slavery would have expanded. Even had it died out, generations of humans would have been destroyed waiting for this 'eventuallity' to occur.
Finally, on this issue, very few people in 1860 expected the Civil War to be a long one. No one expected the tremendous loss of life that came about. Stunned by the losses, Lincoln finally corrected the errors of the founders by giving freedom to ALL American Citizens as envisioned in the Declaration of Independence.

In my opinion, Tom DiLorenzo as well as Ron Paul, are absolute state rightists. They'll allow anything, any violation of individual rights -- as long as it does not originate at the Federal Level. Ron Paul said as much in a recent exchange with Michele Bachmann: that he objected to Obamacare, but would not objected to a similar evil if orginiated by a state. He might object to it, but would have no authority, as President, to stop state coercion of individuals. Bachmann, to her credit, replied that coercion was coercion and not acceptable at the Federal OR the State level.

DiLorenzo's distortions of history are mindboggling. He has read his Orwell.

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Beginning of the headline : Former Bush administration speechwriter Michael Gerson, who is now a columnist for the company newspaper of the company town known as Washington, D.C., recently authored yet another hysterical neocon rant over the Ron Paul candidacy.Ron Paul is on a "quest to undo the Party of Lincoln," blared Gerson’s headline... Read More

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