[skeeter]

Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, or character; it is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent. – Theodore Roosevelt, speech at Washington, DC (1909)

I like it.

BTW would Teddy think its OK to measure someone's Americanism by their perspective on the burning issues of the day?

[Mase]

BTW would Teddy think its OK to measure someone's Americanism by their perspective on the burning issues of the day?

Don't know. However, Teddy Roosevelt also said: Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. – Theodore Roosevelt (1913)

Our conservative movement is no different. There is no doubt that Diane Alden is a member of the lunatic fringe as are the various third-party patsy types who frequent these threads.