Paul LePage: John Lewis Should Thank GOP for Ending Slavery

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Instead of boycotting President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, civil-rights icon Rep. John Lewis should be thanking the Republican Party for ending slavery, Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday. Appearing on WVOM Maine radio’s George Hale and Ric Tyler Show, the firebrand governor addressed Lewis’s claims that Trump is not a “legitimate” president, LePage fired back: “John Lewis ought to look at history. It was Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves. It was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant that fought against Jim Crow laws. A simple ‘thank you’ would suffice.” The governor also called upon Maine congresswoman Chellie Pingree to resign if she boycotts the inauguration, adding, “For some reason, the left has become so hateful and so, they are trying to bully us out of believing our constitution,

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LePage needs to take a history course. Lincoln and Grant deserve to be lionized for freeing the slaves and working on their behalf. Where does Rutherford Hayes fit into this? He removed federal troops from the south ending Reconstruction and leaving the freedman to the tender mercies of unrepentant secessionists, in return for the Democrats acceding to his election after he lost the popular vote. Sound familiar ?

[spanone]

1. you can't make this shit up. really you can't.

[Jacob Boehme]

2. Paul LePage is obviously not part of Lincoln's "Better Angels"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I still can't wrap my head around thew fact Drumpf will sit in Abraham Lincoln's chair.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. In LePage's case he's a better a__hole

[dalton99a]

3. Why can't Maine recall this vile piece of trash?

[ThePatriots]

5. Republicans actually believing they're the party of Lincoln is like christians believing they aren't

preforming pagan ceremonies every December. It's historical revisionism.

[ThePatriots]

6. Also LePage won Maine with 30% because of a split ticket

Talk about illegitimate.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

15. Not true in 2014 he got 48.18 and Maine voters should know better but maybe they like him???

Maine's Gubernatorial Election, 2014
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul LePage (inc.) 294,519 48.18
Democratic Mike Michaud 265,114 43.37
Independent Eliot Cutler 51,515 8.43
Others Others 79 0.01

[ThePatriots]

16. I was thinking of the 2010 results

https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_gubernatorial_election,_2010

How did he GAIN support after saying the stuff that he does? Is it just the incumbency effect?

[The Polack MSgt]

7. I keep telling the Repubs that this line of bullshit is out of date

It was a valid argument back when Reagan, George Wallace and Strom Thurmond were Democrats.

BUT

They all became Republicans after the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 (although I believe Reagan held on until the Voting Rights act in 1965), Thurmond and Wallace jumped ship after the Civil Rights Act of 1964

So, I say FOAD to all Repubs using this nonsense party of Lincoln bullshit.

[safeinOhio]

8. No, it was the brave Union soldiers

that got the Confederate Army to SURRENDER. That's what freed the slaves.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Grant did lead them. As an Ohioan you should be proud of Grant.

He was a true believer in the cause.

[safeinOhio]

10. Born in Arkansas

Had 2 great uncles, brothers, that one fought for the south and one fought for the North.
Now living back in Michigan.

[mn9driver]

12. He is a racist moron.

I hope the people of Maine tire of his act soon.

[PatsFan87]

13. We're already tired of it.

We only have 2 more years of this blowhard and we're counting down the days. If we could have a well-spoken, competent, appealing Democrat who can read a room for 2018, that'd be lovely.

[LeftInTX]

14. Those Republicans didn't collude with Russia to get elected