163 years ago today, the first Republican Party Convention opened in Philadelphia, where California Senator John Fr… https://t.co/8zJw06dvTD

The Convention nominated John Dayton from NJ as VP.

Despite Fremont's fame and reputation, he lost to Democrat James Buchanan (whose vacillating nature and attempts to… https://t.co/lmx1QiUrCo

After Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1960, he named Dayton as Minister to France, with the primary mission of preve… https://t.co/3RlghKupSm

Fremont led the western army for the Union during the civil war, and went on to take over the Union Pacific RR, and… https://t.co/wHYUCLh4Kv

in 1856, Fremont won IA, MI, WI, OH, NY, VT, CT, RI, MA, NH, and MN. Buchanan won CA, TX, FL, IL, IN, PA, NJ - and… https://t.co/y8jZhJDCr8

@tabberg Interesting that Buchanan won CA. That I didn’t know.

@TimRosales And your Texas ancestors!

.@tabberg: a few years ago, @TimRosales took the Catholic church's money to stop CA's euthanasia bill. I wanted him to help engage legislators in Socratic debate designed to show it wrong. He rejected that & just had people wave signs like kids instead. He's a failure.

@24AheadDotCom_ @TimRosales I don’t know who you are, but I know Tim is a hard-working and effective professional -… https://t.co/uj6JsnC8T1

.@tabberg: I'm sure you think @TimRosales is personally great. Professionally, the Catholic church paid him to stop CA's euthanasia bill & he failed. Which of the tactics he used were better than these? https://web.archive.org/web/20150801231153/http://noeuthanasia.com/