Republicans Should Stop Calling Themselves the Party of Teddy Roosevelt

[louis c]

Because you're not.


Teddy was a monopoly buster. He pushed anti-trust laws. He was a populist. Teddy was an environmentalist.

William Howard Taft is the father of the big business Republicans and it pissed Teddy off so much that he started the Bull Moose Party and split from the Republicans of Taft, which represents the Republicans of today, the party of big business.

In the election of 1912, the Republicans ran third to the Democrats under Wilson and Teddy's Bull Moose Party.

Stop using Teddy Roosevelt's name in conjunction with today's Republican Party because it's a lie.


Link:
http://www.essortment.com/all/election_rksg.htm

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Very true.

:thumbsup:

[BridgeTheGap]

2. Teddy knew the score - read these quotes from him

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.” Theodore Roosevelt April, 1906
“There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.”
ibid. August, 1910

[surrealAmerican]

4. Those quotes sum it up pretty well.

The current party would anger TR to no end.

[cobalt1999]

9. I consider him the best president of the 20th century, maybe 1st overall too.

n/t

[Vickers]

3. Any time one of my repuke colleagues tries that shit, I always say

"No way, dude, you're the George W. Bush party!"

[baldguy]

5. Lincoln too.

[cobalt1999]

6. Teddy Roosvelt would kick the current Republicans asses for being against everything he held dear

Probably half the democrats asses too.

[vanderBeth]

7. I bet Teddy's spinning in his grave.

[elias7]

8. Called for Universal Health Care and National Health Insurance

Also, Progressive Income Tax, Conservation efforts, Meat Inspection Act...

He most decidedly would be not only a Democrat today, but be considered Progressive

[louis c]

14. he Bull Moose Party was the Progressive Party of its Day. (NT)

[peekaloo]

10. Teddy Bundy is more apt.

[dorkulon]

11. The Party of Nixon

would be more appropriate.

[cobalt1999]

12. Even Nixon would be considered too liberal for the republicans now.

SALT treaty, Environmental Protection Agency, appointed William Rehnquist.

[dorkulon]

13. True, but spying on political enemies, ignoring subpoenas, smearing Dems as commies...

...he was a true GOP pioneer.