Mitt Romney Plotted to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln!

Mitt Romney is the most villainous scoundrel to ever run for president. According to the Democrats, he’s a tax evader, a corporate raider and a murderer. Here is a video of that paragon of virtue himself, leveling the charge that Romney hasn’t paid taxes in ten years:

Here is a democratic operative accusing the GOP presumptive nominee of killing his wife:



What new infamy can they accuse Romney of next? Plotting to assassinate Lincoln? Why not? This man has more money than God. He could have a time machine locked away in one of his many palatial estates.

You think that’s absurd? Well, absurdity is a well practiced art in that hellhole called Washington D.C. During Reconstruction, after the Civil War, the radical republicans – the progressives of that time – accused President Andrew Johnson of plotting to assassinate Lincoln. Here is an excerpt from The Tragic Era – The Revolution After Lincoln:

Unimpressed, the morrow found Loan of Missouri and Ashley of Ohio introducing resolutions charging Johnson with every imaginable crime. Absurd as these were, Welles was fearful that ‘infamous charges, infamous testimony, and infamous proceedings could be produced as easily, honestly, and legally as Butler could get spoons in New Orleans.

And a week later, Loan gave a disgraceful exhibition – insinuating that Johnson had instigated the assassination of Lincoln! Next to Lincoln, he said, Johnson stood in direct line of succession, and ‘by birth, education, and association’ he was a Southern man. Worse – ‘a lifelong pro-slavery Democrat,’ and ‘influenced by all the grosser animal instincts’ and a ‘towering ambition.’ What more natural than that the ‘Jesuitical leaders of the rebellion’ should prefer such a man in the seat of power? And how easy! ‘But one frail life stood between them and the chief magistracy.’ Thus ‘the crime was committed…an assassins bullet directed by rebel hand and paid for by rebel gold made Andrew Johnson President.’

Of course these accusations were groundless and caused an uproar:

When an indignant member demanded that the words be taken down, Colfax, smiling as usual, as though such charges were customary, ruled the language unexceptionable. Thus encouraged, Loan pushed on, attacking the judiciary; and when a member asked if he did not feel his own self-respect and that of the House called for some particle of evidence ‘on which that charge, so grave is founded,’ Loan refused to answer, and Colfax smilingly announced that ‘the gentleman refused to answer further.’ There was an appeal from the decision, which was sustained by a strict party vote.

Senator Harry Reid would have fit right in with this bunch of scoundrels.


Source: http://www.amazon.com/The-Tragic-Era-Revolution-Lincoln/dp/1931541493