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

By: cs89

cs89 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:45:47 +0000

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.

By: Blacksmith8

Blacksmith8 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:41:01 +0000

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.

By: joe_doufu

joe_doufu — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:53:47 +0000

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?

By: catmman

catmman — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:34:27 +0000

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

By: MadisonConservative

MadisonConservative — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:58:42 +0000

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.

By: joe_doufu

joe_doufu — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:26:03 +0000

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?

By: MadisonConservative

MadisonConservative — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:59:25 +0000

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

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:51:37 +0000

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…