If the founding Fathers were alive today what political party would they belong to?
I think most would be Libertarians and a few Republicans.
Well, if we are to go by their writings, then they would likely not be in any political party. They weren’t fans of those.
But for the sake of the debate, I’ll go with libertarian, as well.
I would venture to say that they would be in the American Independent party.
Oh come ON. We all know that if the Founding Fathers were alive today, they’d be in the political party that attempted to declare a chunk of Montana as a sovereign state. 
I take back my comment that the Founding Fathers would belong to the American Independant Party.
I think most of them would belong to the Constitution Party, with the remainder belonging to the Libertarian Party.
At least a few of them would have been in that party at Auburn.
-d&r-
FWIW, I think they’d probably found their own political party.
I think if they were alive they’d turn over in their graves.
I don’t think that many of the Founding Fathers were Christian theocrats.
Perhaps most of them were not Christian “theocrats”, but I’d wager that most of them were Christian.
Well, both Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson considered themselves deists who did not believe that Jesus was the son of god, and spoke more of the forces of nature, and “divine providence”. Some of George Washington’s writings implied the same. And John Adams was a Unitarian. Jefferson himself was sympathetic to the Unitarian ideals later in life. So those 4 certainly wouldn’t be called christians today by a significant number of the christian mainstream.
Maybe, but most of them believed in the separation of church and state; they managed to write an entire national Constitution without even mentioning God. The Constitution Party, on the other hand, hardly seems able to get through three planks of its platform without mentioning God. It also explicitly states in its preamble “that the foundation of our political position and moving principle of our political activity is our full submission and unshakable faith in our Savior and Redeemer, our Lord Jesus Christ”. The Constitution Party looks like exactly the sort of priest-ridden theocratic chauvinism that the founders worked so hard to avoid.
I can see Thomas Paine, reading Abby Hoffman and chuckling.
John Adams a Libertarian? Haw Haw! With his track record with the Alien 'n Sedition Acts, I’d say the bastard was heading into fascist territory.
I find the idea that they would be alive today at all more interesting than what party. I doubt most of them would bother. But if, say they were dropped into our time at the peak of their careers -
Alexander Hamilton would think he’d gone to heaven. He would become very, very rich, Warren Buffett rich.
George Washington would quietly retire to the Virginian countryside, where he would glare at the TV occasionally and have guards and attack dogs to deal with reporters.
Ben Franklin would do the lecture circuit and write a lot of hilarious little books, sort of like Dave Barry.
Aaron Burr would attempt to overthrow Mexico, fail, and kill Dick Cheney in a duel.
Patrick Henry would put Rush Limbaugh and Liddy out of work.
John Paul Jones would be keelhauling terrorists off of his Iowa-class battleship.
Thomas Jefferson would spend most of his time in the French countryside, romancing various women, dabbling with inventions, and doing Jimmy Carterish activities.
Paul Revere would reopen his shop in Boston and be doing a brisk business.
I said some of them would be Republicans…
“Quickly ducks as Muad’Dibs fellow GOP’rs start to pelt him with tomatoes”
LOL! Very well put. And they probably would, too.
Of course they would be of the same party I am, because they are always right just like my party is.
The founding fathers would be planning a revolution to overthrow an oppressive government if they were alive today.
Minor hijack to set things straight on a point made above:
George Washington was an Episcopalian, aristocratic and of slight deist tendencies but very much a Christian nonetheless. What he was not was a Southern-fried evangelical of the variety that attempts to define “Christian” as limited to their own beliefs.
I suspect many of them would be Democrats. James Madison would never buy into the Republican government-as-controller scenario, though I think he’d have problems with government in a social-justice role. Jefferson certainly would, and would probably turn Libertarian. As would most of the Anti-Federalist Founding Fathers: Dickinson, George Mason, Edmund Randolph, Monroe, etc.