Steve Cox · @RealSteveCox
8th Oct 2013 from Tweetings
"You are not to believe that these two parties are amalgamated, that the lion and the lamb are lying together. The Hartford Convention, the victory of Orleans, the peace of Ghent, prostrated the name of Federalism. Its votaries abandoned it through shame and mortification; and now call themselves Republicans. But the name alone is changed, the principles are the same." -- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to General Lafayette, 1824, explaining how the Republican Party dramatically changed its ideals when Federalists joined their ranks.