McCain proud to be Teddy Roosevelt, father of US socialized medicine…

posted at 4:09 pm on September 23, 2009 by

So it appears that our erstwhile Captain Shamnesty is thrilled to have been compared to Theodore Roosevelt by Glenn Beck. Fair enough.

Though, I’d be more than a little hesitant to accept the early 20th century Progressive crown, when said title carries with it the birth of nationalized health care debate as an accomplishment.

Then again, considering the dude gave a speech after having just been shot(let’s see The One manage that), one can assume that someone that invulnerable would have thought health care was overrated to begin with.

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the dude gave a speech after having just been shot(let’s see The One manage that)

And little green moonbats links to claim you’re inciting assassination in 5…4…3…

Laura on September 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM

It’d be an honor to be smeared by those creeps.

MadisonConservative on September 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM

Teddy Roosevelt was a great man with strong principles. There’s no shame in being compared to him just because he had a few ideas that differed from the founding fathers. Remember, back then we didn’t have a century of evidence to show us what socialism eventually led to.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. Does that mean modern politicians should be ashamed to be compared to them?

joe_doufu on September 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. Does that mean modern politicians should be ashamed to be compared to them?

joe_doufu on September 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM

Slavery ended. Health care did not, nor did government corruption or inefficiency.

MadisonConservative on September 23, 2009 at 5:58 PM

Good ‘ol Teddy may have been a Progressive, but he was a tough SOB.

catmman on September 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM

I’m just saying, there are worse people you could have as your hero than TR.

Pretty soon Columbus Day is going to be here. Are you going to be protesting with the hippies that we shouldn’t honor Columbus because he wasn’t ethnically sensitive?

joe_doufu on September 23, 2009 at 6:53 PM

I knew there was something about McCain and his always bringing up Teddy in the campaign. It wasn’t ’til December that heard about Teddy being at the founding of the PROGRESSIVES. I thought WHOA! WRONG! Bad answer!

Top of the reading list today: The New Nationalism by Theodore Roosevelt.

Blacksmith8 on September 24, 2009 at 9:41 AM

Need to read up on Roosevelt more, but he certainly had a spine. Currently reading “The River of Doubt” about his post-Bull Moose defeat expedition on an unexplored South American river.

I’m sure there are policies I’d disagree with him on a century after his time, but anybody who’d pull off the Panama Canal events (including Panamanian “independence”)
then venture to that same continent a few years later on a speaking tour has cojones not seen by our current GOP leaders.

Oh, and his “Bull Moose” effort to oust an ineffectual Taft has a certain resonance today. The GOP has a choice, faced with the Obamanation- compromise and lose disaffected conservatives, or suck it up and stand for the party’s principles. I think some are starting to get it, and by laying out principled stands to attract voters to conservatism (not changing platforms to accomodate the elusive “moderate” voter) a path to victory is emerging.

IMHO.

cs89 on September 24, 2009 at 4:45 PM