I don't think it is a big step any more than I think Christine O'Donnell did the women's movement any great benefit.

I don't think anything about the Tea Party is worthy of celebrating and I don't think they have anything to do with Lincoln.

That is just my opinion though.

And the Civil war was about succession over slavery. Everyone know that. White supremacy, slavery, abolition, succession and the Civil War were all one issue in that all were completely intertwined. They were all strands in one cable.