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No I’m sorry you are wrong in many respects. First, Teddy Roosevelt was a real life hero in battle and in other aspects of his life and as president.

“Conservatives” elect liberal democrats by staying home or wasting third party votes. Whether or not you vote for Obama, if your rejection even of Newt Gingrich or whoever puts Obama in office, you have nonetheless helped elect a horrible out and out leftist.

Teddy Roosevelt lived in a different age and his version of flirting with the then new idea of eugenics was not the same evil as what the nazis later did with it. Or maybe you want to join the George Washington was evil crowd (and George Washington was a great hero) because he damn well owned slaves and I’d say that is a greater evil than mistakenly thinking eugenics was a good idea.

As to the income tax, Woodrow Wilson signed that into law. WW did a lot of other bad things.

In that particular election, it was Teddy Roosevelt’s one great sin, the sin you don’t bother to mention. He ran against Taft as a third party and doomed the republican’s reelection out of his own inflated sense of ego and ideological purity. That is exactly what people threaten to do on here every single day, and it brings the real evils of a Woodrow Wilson (who by the way was an ugly racist) into our lives, and oddly you focus on TR or Gingrich, but not on the greater threat of WW or Obama.

Give it a thought but you probably won’t, because I have seen this many times and it’s like trying to convince TR not to run as a third party. But then by your logic, you must support TR on that decision and you don’t care that WW was elected.