GINGRICH: I guess I’m a Theodore Roosevelt Republican
How soon we forget...
JOHN MCCAIN, JUNE 2008: “I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold,”
T.R. was a PROGRESSIVE, not a "conservative". He introduced big government solutions to America, launched the age of radical environmentalism, and endorsed and cheerleaded EUGENICS, as later brought to perfection by Margaret Sanger ("human weeds") and Adolf Hitler.
See my post 22. Beck is playing a rhetorical game on his audience.
Teddy Roosevelt becomes an evil progressive liberal SOB, then anyone who says I’m a TR republican is no good.
Sorry, Beck has a long way to go to prove TR a bum. Did TR in the early 1900’s wield strong presidential power? Yes. Is TR generally regarded (and properly so) as an American hero and icon throughout his career? Absolutely rightly so.
TR was a great American patriot and Glenn Beck is not able to make me forget it.
Woodrow Wilson is quite another story, and they were political enemies and opponents. TR begged WW to let Teddy lead his Rough Riders on the battlefield during WW1. Wilson turned him down for political reasons.
TR was a patriot and hero. I am not replacing him in my pantheon with Glenn Beck.