I know as well as you do. It was the Progressive Party. Not to be confused with Wilsonian progressivism. That is why Glenn Beck needs to bone up a bit.
Actually, Roosevelt may have been the first neocon, in favor of bigger government at home and a hawk on foreign policy. It’s no wonder McCain admires him.
“We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community. … The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and … a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.” - TR
“Because of things I have done on behalf of justice to the workingman, I have often been called a Socialist. Usually I have not taken the trouble even to notice the epithet. … Moreover, I know that many American Socialists are high-minded and honorable citizens, who in reality are merely radical social reformers. They are opposed to the brutalities and industrial injustices which we see everywhere about us.” - TR
“Many of the men who call themselves socialists today are in reality merely radical social reformers, with whom on many points good citizens can and ought to work in hearty general agreement, and whom in many practical matters of government good citizens can well afford to follow.” - TR
“I have always maintained that our worst revolutionaries today are those reactionaries who do not see and will not admit there is any need for change.” - TR
Source: McCain’s Hero: More Socialist Than Obama! http://www.slate.com/id/2202950/