Ex-(for now) Wingnut, current idiot Chucky Johnson thinks he has one on us for Obama’s blatant gaffe about Lincoln being the founder of the GOP.

“For example, let’s see what the Republican National Committee website has to say about Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln | RNC: Republican National Committee | GOP

Abraham Lincoln helped establish the Republican Party with a speech denouncing an 1854 law, written by a Democrat Senator, that allowed slavery to expand into the western territories. Two years later, he co-founded the Illinois GOP. Lincoln was runner-up for the 1856 Republican vice presidential nomination and then became a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate.

Oops! Wingnuts with egg on their faces … again. I guess they must enjoy the embarrassment, because they just keep falling for this crap, over and over and over.

Better keep an eye on the revision history of the Abraham Lincoln page at Wikipedia. You know what right wingers do when actual history doesn’t agree with their fractured fairy tales.”

Don’t need to Turd Bottom, the remark is still incorrect. Lincoln didn’t found the GOP nothing in that quote said he did. He was one of many, but far from the founder as Obama emphasied. Of course Chucky flunked history (and other assorted subjects) in school. I know.

UPDATE: By the way, it appears Obama gaffed a few more things:

“Obama fumbled a few times historically. Lincoln’s government did not build the transcontinental railroad. Government started laying the groundwork going back to the 1850s, but the private sector did the job.

Government involvement in the railroads led to some of the worst scandals in American history to that point, notably the Credit Mobilier scandal. So citing government linkage with railroads really undermines the big government case.

Also, it was Congress that initiated the Morrill Land Grant Act, which Obama seemed to want to paint as a creature of presidential power.”