I actually agree with that. I had never thought of W’s “compassionate conservatism” in the same sense as TR’s progressivism, but I think you might be right. Both involved projecting state power in both domestic and international policy. The Medicare fiasco and the rapid growth in federal spending over the past 7 years would have been enough to demonstrate this, but the nationalization of our financial system and the attempts at the auto industry show how W has out done TR.
YAWN.
Bush bashing. THAT will certainly get our conservative movement going.