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[med_cat]

"There were some Republican leaders, feeling very blue indeed,

That their party, after hard fighting, had the ill luck to succeed..."
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Three guesses as to the source and timeframe...:P

Comments

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[med_cat]

Good guess, but it was much earlier ;)

http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1185919.html

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[med_cat]

:)

[rose0mary.livejournal.com]

Well, it's Not here and now, cause the Establishment (Republicans) did NOT support Trump in any way, shape, or form.

(heard a rumor about a week ago how Mrs. Clinton was blaming her LOSS on the "pro-trump" Media bias. I ask: WHAT PRO TRUMP ads and commercials? Everything that I saw - for the presidential candidate - was anti-Donald, or blatantly pro-Hilliary).

Doubt it was for Bush - either George W. or George H.W., but I am almost positive they were not blue when Reagan won, so I'm guessing about twelve years ago or so?

[duathir.livejournal.com]

"the Establishment (Republicans) did NOT support Trump in any way, shape, or form."

That is not true. (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/where-republicans-stand-on-donald-trump-a-cheat-sheet/481449/).

[med_cat]

Thank you for providing this extensive list with interesting details :)

[duathir.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome.

[med_cat]

Good guess! But nope, much earlier than you'd thought:

http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1185919.html

[debriswoman]

I suspect you are going much further back in time...

[med_cat]

You are indeed correct ;) What gave it away, the poet's phrasing, or the fact that I posed the question?

Here's the source:

http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1185919.html

[debriswoman]

Both:-p

[med_cat]

That's what I thought :P

[duathir.livejournal.com]

Abraham Lincoln.

They were right to feel blue. Lincoln's bad decision plunged this nation into a disastrous war, that we have still not recovered from. The US would have been better off if he had let the slave-holding states secede.

[med_cat]

Well done :)

And yes, perhaps the U.S. would've been better off, but isn't it also true that hindsight is always 20/20?

Here's the source of the quote:

http://med-cat.livejournal.com/1185919.html

[duathir.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I do not blame Lincoln; he could not have foreseen the consequences of his decision. Reconstruction would have gone much differently had he not been assassinated.

[med_cat]

Yes...