[pissant]

Well, it seems not all conservatives share Glenn Beck's view of TR.

[HiTech RedNeck]

BULLAY! BULLAY! BULLAY!

[mylife]

TR has always been a hero of mine.
Did he do things that weren’t conservative?

Yup. All leaders make some compromise.

[pissant]

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

TR

[PGalt]

Good post, pissant. Thanks.

HOORAY Glenn Beck! Glenn Beck is OUTSTANDING!

[GeronL]

lol.

TR went third party. Glenn Beck doesn’t approve.

TR was a progressive who believed corporate profits should be used to help the community.

Nah.

[streetpreacher]

“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy” - TR

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” - Thomas Jefferson

[streetpreacher]

As president, Reagan often mentioned his admiration for FDR’s spirit of leadership. On a trip back to his alma mater, Eureka College, in 1984, he reminded his listeners what it was like to experience the Great Depression, and how the Fireside Chats had been so reassuring. “All of us who lived through those years,” he instructed them, “remember the drabness the depression brought. But we remember, too, how people pulled together, that sense of community and shared values, that belief in American enterprise and democracy that saw us through. It was that engrained American optimism, that sense of hope Franklin Roosevelt so brilliantly summoned and mobilized.”

Source: http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1082&loc=r

Uh oh. Reagan said something good about FDR. Guess we all have to stop criticizing him now?

[dajeeps]

Is this about Ronnie, Teddy, or Glenn?

Democrats hounded Ronald Reagan and have tried to discredit everything he had ever done while he was alive. After he died they finally gave him credit for his effort to bring an end to the cold war and paid tribute. That does not mean that they ever had their ‘come to Jesus’ moment. On the contrary, they used him as a scapegoat for the mortgage meltdown. Never mind that they overindulged in getting and incentivising loans for the underserved. Paying tribute does not constitute an endorsement.

This article also does not account for the recent change in public attitude, a hypersensitivity to socialism. We simply have not lived with government as big as it was when Reagan took office and started dismantling it, and many don’t really remember it.

Teddy was right that government is the answer to everything? I don’t think so, and Reagan didn’t think so either.

[Binghamton_native]

Lest everyone think Beck was entirely off-base regarding TR, check out the TR discussion in National Review On-Line. There other well thought off commentators that have a problem with the statist ideas that TR expressed.

http://www.nationalreview.com/

[parsifal]

Did Glen diss TR?

FWIW, here’s a speech by Roosevelt recorded on a cylinder:

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1020&num=1&start=1&query=cylinder2683

parsy, who likes TR

[WalterSkinner]

..when Beck started going off on TR--I changed the channel...

[AuntB]

“Well, it seems not all conservatives share Glenn Beck’s view of TR. “

It’s too bad Reagan didn’t take to heart more of TR’s admonishment on immigration before he granted another amnesty. McCain claims to love TR, but ignores this as well.

Teddy Roosevelt. I’ll post their links under the quote.

“In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919.

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or to leave the country,” he said in a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918. “English should be the only language taught or used in the public schools.
“We can have no “50-50” allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1608833/posts