The Heretik notes tremors in the force in the blogosphere.
Was Thomas Jefferson, anti-Federalist (pro "The People") a Republican the way the word is understood today? The Heretik doesn't think so.
Jefferson a Republican? The guy who said a little rebellion now and then is a good thing?
Jefferson a Republican? The guy who said that if he had a choice between a government without newspapers or newspapers without government? (Dude took second option).
Anybody with informed opinion can comment.
Link: corrente / Leah, Lambert, Tresy, the farmer, Tom, Xan, and RDF.
Atrios complains that the White House website is referring to several early Democratic-Republican presidents as "Republicans."
I'm afraid, Atrios, that those presidents all called themselves Republicans. Now, according to the Wayback machine, the earlier version of the webpages (compare the 2000 version of the Madison page here with the 2004 version here) during the Clinton era made it clearer what that meant, but those pages referred to them as Republicans as well.
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