theodore roosevelt was a progressive, i.e. liberal socialist.
Teddy Roosevelt believed in Global Warming?
Who knew?
You sure your not thinking of FDR?
BS. You are talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt pretty much defined the Progressive Era of US History.
He was proud to call himself a “progressive”. It’s ridiculous to argue otherwise. The name of TR’s party in the 1912 election was the 1912 PROGRESSIVE PARTY.
According to Wikipedia, “Its platform called for women’s suffrage, recall of judicial decisions, easier amendment of the U.S. Constitution, social welfare legislation for women and children, workers’ compensation, limited injunctions in strikes, farm relief, revision of banking to assure an elastic currency, required health insurance in industry, new inheritance taxes and income taxes, improvement of inland waterways, and limitation of naval armaments.”
TR favored big government, Federal bureaucratic intrusion, imperial expansion, and big labor, while opposing private enterprise.
As a result, high school and college instructors probably loved him. Evidently he is still viewed favorably by modern conservatives of the “national greatness” variety.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_%28United_States%2C_1912%29
It's hard to say exactly what Teddy was, more like a populist. But at least he did some great things for the country and selling it out to Mexico as mccain wants to do would never have crossed his mind. Just the opposite, he would have closed that border in a heartbeat.