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To: Impy
Another intersting trivia fact: I think you guys rightfully give Teddy Roosevelt hell for his vanity campaign in 1912 that split the GOP vote and inflicted Woody Wilson on America, but lefties trying to claim Teddy as one of their own forget that Wilson ran to his LEFT and Teddy denounced Wilson's plans to nationalize the railroad industry as "rank socialism".

After he saw what harm Wilson did to America, Teddy returned to the GOP fold in 1916, endorsed AND campaigned vigoriously for Charles Evans Hughes, saying Wilson was a disaster and it was imperative to defeat him. Teddy Roosevelt died a staunch Republican and was no fan of his distant cousin Franklin.

For that reason alone, I think Teddy would challenge his little snot-nosed great-great-grandson to a boxing match, and beat the snot out of him for spewing AOC's talking points and endorsing the likes of Joe Biden.

32 posted on 06/27/2020 7:50:44 PM PDT by BillyBoy ('States Rights' is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican

Or be in favor of taking down his statue, pathetic. He’s a “Lincoln Project” traitor like that POS Kellyanne Conway sleeps with. Honestly, Carville’s marriage makes more sense to me than that.

Anyway back to TR, I’ll note that due to his popularity he is claimed by the left (kinda like what some on the right do with JFK). Ask a libtard and they’ll say TR was the last “good” Republican President.

TR of course died before his cousin was more than an Assistant Sec of the Navy but they appeared to enjoy warm relations (Teddy loved his niece Eleanor) and even gave his blessing for FDR to run for state Senate as a rat (even if he wished he weren’t one), it sounded to me like the district was GOP leaning and an unkind word from TR could have nipped Franklin’s career right in the ass (Eleanor had no compunction about trying to wreck her cousin TR “Jr.” when he ran for Governor of NY, she went out of her way to troll his campaign).

For his part Frank bent over backwards invoking TR whenever he could, very like every weaselous Kennedy. If TR had not been President we would likely have never heard of Franklin.


34 posted on 06/28/2020 11:56:28 PM PDT by Impy (Thug Lives Splatter)
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