The Republican Party is the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it.
The Republican Party is a party which, when formed in 1854, was a single-issue independent party made up of renegades who opposed the expansion of slavery into the new U.S. Territories and States.
The Republican Party is a party which, in the 1990s, was skilled at using loaded language such as 'tax relief' or 'pro-life' or tax 'burden', along with constant repetition, to play into the frames in our unconscious minds.
The Republican Party is nowadays like the corpse in 'weekend at bernies' and the tea party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around.
The Republican Party is a party that was a single issue party revolving around anti-slavery and, in particular, that principle in the declaration of independence that states 'all men are created equal.
The Republican Party is different from the Democratic party only in this: the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
The Republican Party was originally a one-issue anti-slavery party. Under lincoln himself it was influenced by whiggishness -an ideology of economic optimism grounded in the wholehearted belief in the power of the individual to better himself, so long as society was properly ordered.