You want to argue TR sometime, I’m game. He was quite the patriot and effective President. Like all Presidents, he had his shortcomings and moments of stupidity. But basing TR’s career evaluation on his boneheaded BullMoose years (all two of them) as Beck likes to do, is as much a disservice to TR as basing Churchill’s career on his mistakes (Which including joining Labour, amongst other things).
I could care less about his “Bullmoose” years. I base my loathing for him on the Interstate Commerce Commission, the “Trust Busters” and all the other ways he grew government and government regulation of business when he WAS in office. Now, granted there may have been some abuses by a few businesses, but I would far rather have had THAT than the strangling tentacles of big government, which is what TR was spinning during his Whitehouse years.