Posted on 01/06/2019 12:01:17 PM PST by Borges
TR’s youngest son Quentin became a pilot in WWI and was shot down on July 14, 1918—the only son of a President to die in combat.
I can see him being more pushy than Wilson about getting us into World War I. But I can also see more pushback from congress. He would have pushed for that stupid amendment to elect U.S. Senators by popular vote. But I'm not sure he would have been nearly as enthusiastic about the income tax.
Neither TR not Wilson were all that popular by the time the 2016 election rolled around. FWIW, Wilson was the first two term president to be elected with less than a majority of popular voter. Clinton was the second. BO was the only one to do worse the second time around.
Trump is as close to Teddy Roosevelt as it’s ever going to get.
Wow, only 60? I thought he was older than that!
TR is still the youngest person ever to be President—he was 42 when McKinley was assassinated. JFK was 43 when he was elected President. TR began his political career in the NY legislature when he was about 23...so he had been in the public eye for many years. I think some people were expecting him to run again for the Presidency in 1920.
You make a good case that he ran further left as a third party candidate than he did when he was President. I don't deny TR's third party bid was disastrous and gave us Woodrow Wilson. But to be fair, Teddy had a "WTF have I done?!?!" wake up call after Wilson started enacting his horrible policies, and TR returned to the GOP fold in 1916 and endorsed and campaigned for Charles Evans Hughes, saying it was paramount that we MUST defeat Wilson for re-election. With a united GOP behind him, Hughes narrowly lost (and I would further argue Hughes himself was no conservative prize)
I give guys like TR and Eisenhower more credit when they realize their actions (third party bid and appointing Earl Warren to SCOTUS) resulted in taking this country down the path of marxism, than guys like Nixon and Ford inadvertently doing something to screw over this country and never expressing regret for it. Also, even when Wilson was running as a "conservative" RAT in 1912, he somehow managed to campaign on policies FURTHER left than self-described "progressive" Teddy Roosevelt. For example, Wilson called for nationalizing the railroad industry and both TR and Taft rightfully denounced it as socialism.
Lefties today try to co-opt Teddy Roosevelt as one of their own and make it sound like today's "Progressives" are in the same mold. While Teddy Roosevelt was NO conservative, he certainly wasn't anywhere close to Bernie Sanders crowd. In fact, not only was he a much more decent human being than today's "Progressives", he was also better than the Democrat "Progessives" on his heyday. RATs like to pretend that "the two parties switched sides" but Democrat "Progressives" were always more liberal than their GOP counterparts, aside from a odd fluke like that Wisconsin commie "Republican" Bob La Follette (and GOP "Progressives" were never a majority of Republicans in that era anyway)
“Progressives” keep “Progressing?”
I am damn sick and tired of their Marxist Bullshit!
Enough is enough!
Doesn’t work. Has NEVER worked! Will NEVER work!
Let us help President Trump drive a stake through the heart of “Progressivism” once and for all!
Haad Teddy won, we might not have a Federal Reserve or the “Progressive” Income tax, either.
Hard to say, but he would have been better for the USA than Mrs. Wilson!
And, had Teddy won, we might be a better country today!
Love this!
I remember it as if it were yesterday.
RIP Ted!
TR was the Ross Perot of his day. He pulled enough of the conservative vote away to allow progressive butt-wipe Wilson to win the office of POTUS. This forever changed the landscape of America into the progressive socialist utopia we see today teetering on extinction. Although it took 100 years to see fruition, this arrogant shit single-handedly killed the American dream.
TR’s youngest son Quentin became a pilot in WWI and was shot down on July 14, 1918—the only son of a President to die in combat.
And, to his credit, he was shot in the chest at a campaign event in Milwaukee—and still gave the speech. His folded speech (they gave long speeches in those days) and his glasses case took a lot of the bullet’s energy. He pulled out the holed and bloodied paper and told the crowd they needed to be patient with him because he was shot on the way in.
RBG gave a very moving eulogy
#35 he was the Ross Perot of his day.
That is a great analogy!
Teddy sure was that!
We’d be a different country fer shure, fer shure had W’s daddy been re-elected!
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