Smart Republicans.... there are a few.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Since it's remotely related to the topic title, just found out today that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican ... gasp ...

I'm not an American, so don't blame me for not knowing until now.

Already knew that. But the political parties switched in the last fifty years. In Abraham's time it was the Democratic Party who represented the crazies in the Deep South. The Southern Stratergy ensured that the Republicans took the place of the Democrats as representing racist people. If Abraham were alive today I think he'd see both parties (Republican and Democratic) as too crazy.

Actually they were all racists.  The big difference was that the Dems wanted more black people and the Repubs wanted to get rid of all of them. The Dems wanted to increase taxes to pay off the Civil war debt but the Repubs said "screw that, the grand kids can pay it" and its been that way since.