Lincoln fought a war to preserve federal authority over the States. Is that what...

[MaxAeMillions]

...Republicans mean by "Small...? Is that what Republicans mean by "Small Government"?

 

[ShovelReady]

I think I would have been in favor of secession.

 

[crknapp79]

Hate to answer you're question with a question, but are you saying you're okay with slavery?

 

[ChiefInspectorClouseau]

They like that people like what Lincoln did and that history has an (R) next to President Lincoln, otherwise they dislike everything about Lincoln, they just like that other people do like it and they can associate him with them.

 

[TeaBagger]

Lincoln was a Republican get over it.

Martin Luther King was also a Republican.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

RIP- Sen. Byrd, an overall swell guy that just had to do a few things in his youth to get elected...like be a KKK recruiter, filibuster the civil rights act etc.

 

[GoAheadaMakeMyDay]

What the Republican Party stands for these days is much different than what it stood for in 1861.

Lincoln fought the Civil War because he was against state rights. He disagreed with a state's right to choose whether or not to be a slave state. He also disagreed with a state's right to leave the Union. He was a Federalist - plain and simple. He felt that these things should be up to the Federal government to decide.

The Republicans were for small government back in post WWII times. Their party stance has really changed in like the last 20 years or so.

I'd say the Libertarians are really the party of small government. Not the Republicans.