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Now I can see you asking what the first Teabagger has to do with Presidents Day, but there is a connection. Presidents Day celebrates George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Republicans seldom mention Lincoln anymore. Although he was the first Republican President, he was the antithesis of the values and beliefs of today\u2019s Republican Party. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth, and by examining his beliefs, I can make a credible case that Booth was the first Teabagger.<\/font><\/p>\n The historical reference for this article is Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n Booth believed that the Civil War was not over. That certainly fits the pattern. Teabaggers today still believe that the civil war is not over.<\/font><\/p>\n Booth was effected by an encounter he had in his youth with a Gypsy fortune teller, who told him he would have a have a grand life, die young, and come to a bad end. Like Booth, there is nothing too insane for Teabaggers to believe.<\/font><\/p>\n Booth was pro-confederate. So are Teabaggers.<\/font><\/p>\n Booth was strongly opposed to abolitionists. This same racism is deeply embedded in Teabagger beliefs.<\/font><\/p>\n Booth served as a delegate for the Know Nothing Party. That certainly describes Teabaggers, but consider that the party was the nativist political movement of it\u2019s day, hated minorities, strongly opposed immigration, and was open only to males of British descent. Teabagger screeds on \u201canchor babies\u201d echo this sentiment.<\/font><\/p>\n Booth was an avowed Tenther, just as today\u2019s Teabaggers.<\/font><\/p>\n Booth blamed the President and the federal government for the nation\u2019s ills and said he \u201cwished the President and the whole damned government would go to hell\u201d. Teabaggers share this hatred of the President and federal government.<\/font><\/p>\n Finally, Booth followed, in advance, the advice of Bachmann, Beck, Limbaugh, Palin and other Republicans whom Teabaggers worship, and used a Second Amendment solution to cure an election he did not like. What could be more representative of Teabaggers?<\/font><\/p>\n There it is. Irony of ironies. The first Republican President was assassinated by the first Teabagger.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now I can see you asking what the first Teabagger has to do with Presidents Day, but there is a connection. Presidents Day celebrates George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Republicans seldom mention Lincoln anymore. Although he was the first Republican President, he was the antithesis of the values and beliefs of today\u2019s Republican Party. On […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,145,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-holiday","category-politics","category-19-id","category-145-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}