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Posted on 07/12/2008 12:24:50 PM PDT by flyfree
HUDSON, Wis. — Senator John McCain in a wide-ranging interview called for a government that is frugal but more active than many conservatives might prefer. He said government should play an important role in areas like addressing climate change, regulating campaign finance and taking care of “those in America who cannot take care of themselves.”
“I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold,” Mr. McCain said, referring to Roosevelt’s reputation for reform, environmentalism and tough foreign policy.
The views expressed by Mr. McCain in the 45-minute interview here Friday illustrated the challenge the probable Republican presidential nominee faces as he tries to navigate the sensibilities of his party’s conservative base and those of the moderate and independent voters he needs to defeat Senator Barack Obama, his Democratic rival.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
progressive, i.e. liberal socialist.
quite a few of them around these days too.. in both parties.
mcCain is no Teddy. sorry, uh uh. Teddy may have been an early enviro-friendly Chief Executive but he never chopped anybody off at the knees, unless he absolutely needed to.. use the stick or lose it. ;-)
We have had worse President.
Not much moderation in wanting to seize and nationalize coal mines and have soldiers mine the coal . T.R. is easily recognized as the model for McCain’s moral superiority when it comes to sneering at American business and judging profits “obscene” .
So are you voting for Obama then, if you won’t vote for McCain?
That’s handing the election to the dimocrats.
(Even if you vote third party — you will still contribute to electing Obamaniac!
Another reason to draft Gov Palin.
you are wrong!
teddy was a republican in name only.
Teddy wanted:
Social welfare legislation for women and children, workers’ compensation, farm relief, required health insurance in industry, new inheritance taxes and income taxes, and limitation of naval armaments...
That’s handing the election to the dimocrats.
No. You see, and this comes strange to some people, particularly in the GOP.. you have no claim on my vote. It is not "your" vote, that you are entitled to. Thus, my not voting for McCain is not taking anything away from you.
(Even if you vote third party — you will still contribute to electing Obamaniac!
Sorry. I will not accept the blame for the GOP running a liberal for president. That's your problem, not mine.
i’m voting for mccain, simply because obama is worse.
but the topic above was about teddy roosevelt.
teddy was one of them, a liberal-socialist.
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I don't know how to answer that, as there is no international body of Fascists who certifies that you are one. Is it a historical fact that Jimmy Carter is a traitor? I would say yes, he would say no, but I know of no way to say that he is as "historical fact".
it seems like a virus that was going around at the turn of the 19th-20th c.
americans and europeans were taken by socialism.
president woodrow wilson was the biggest liberal of the progressive era.
if you read my quote above, teddy did not think much of private property.
hitler and mussolini admired fdr,
and fdr and his admired them in turn.
Were his ways different then the Conservative ideals we hold now??? most certainly... but do the acts that he did as president really constitute the title fascist???
Folks forget the mindset of the time when he was president is much different then now...
I just think it rather flippant and misguide to call him a fascist.
When I say fascist, I mean in the true theoretical and economic sense. Not in the "dictator who was on the other side of us in a war" sense. So yes, I maintain he is a fascist.
“The man who wrongly holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare, who rightly maintains that every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.” Speech, Osawatomie, Kan., 31 Aug 1910
Here is another quote:
“My position as regards to monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property. – Teddy Roosevelt Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910.
We are cruisin for a bruisin...
Bring back DUNCAN HUNTER.
If you want to fix something, retrace your steps to where it first went wrong. Logic will point out your mistake. Do not take that path again. Seems we can never get that.
Works every time it is tried.
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