There seems to be a push-back afloat against Obama’s embrace of Lincoln.  Picture me looking over a book store’s selection of political and current events magazines and seeing these two magazine covers a couple magazines apart:

I’m not sure the background of the author who wrote the National Review one, but I instructively trust the author to have a more interesting take on “Lincoln the Conservative” than Newsmax’s author by the name of “Gingrich”.

The political battlelines were, of course, drawn a bit differently and the context of the times calls for no neat categorization here — there are certainly tenants and tendencies from the birth of the Republican Party that you can trace straight to today in what Republican Party politics preach.  But as a rule the Reconstruction Era Parties in the South had the “Conservatives” as your anti-Lincoln contigency and “Radicals” as those perceiving themselves as holding up the Lincoln legacy.   The annual “Conservative Political Action Committee” always (reportedly) attracts some booths from Southern Lincoln-haters, wanting to set the record straight on Lincoln’s Federal Usurption of powers… though I imagine they attract a sort of niche following as the grouping trends toward thrilling to the words of Ann Coulter.

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