"We're for Free Soil and Free Men here at the Prospect"

"In a way, the list rather neatly encapsulates how the Republican Party has done an all-American 180--shifting from a Hamiltonian party promoting pro-business public works and committed to racial liberalism, to a Jeffersonian party, dead set against public investment and rooted in the white South with all its attendant bigotries (and minus much of Jefferson's concern for the Bill of Rights)."

Looking at the GOP's website, Harold Myerson in The American Prospect heralds the party's (pre-1980) accomplishments.