Kind of hard to believe this was once the Republican Party

I found these quotes and writings by former President Theodore Roosevelt:
"Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things... bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
1916

A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals." - 1900

"There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing." - 1903

"The object of government is the welfare of the people." "Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us." - `1910

"It is no use to preach if you do not act decently yourself." -1903

"Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men."..."Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man's name." His Senior Thesis at Harvard in 1880

"Much can be done by law towards putting women on a footing of complete and entire equal rights with man - including the right to vote, the right to hold and use property, and the right to enter any profession she desires on the same terms as the man."..."Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly." - 1913

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal."
Letter to Sir Edward Gray, November 15, 1913

Amazing to think the Republican Party was once led by men who believed these things. How far they have fallen from their roots. These quotes were found at: http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/Quotes.htm

He would have cheered on the Iraq War, and he virtually stole the Panama Canal territory.

But at least he wasn't a chickenhawk. He served, and his son served (and was killed). He put his money where his mouth was.

However I think he would have been one scrubbies biggest critics over the lies that scrub has told.

The Republicans were the part of the corporations and McKinley. Roosevelt was made McKinley's running partner as a political concession.

As a Bull Moose/Progressive Republican (of course, we're all card-carrying democrats these days, personally since 1988, militantly since 1994), had to point out that he left the GOP after his presidency.

teddy roosevelt!
this would make a fantastic bumper sticker. theodore roosevelt is still seen as a 'trust buster' and a bit of cowboy on the side, so how the gopigs and the media sycophants twist it around to make teddy a liberal (maybe play up his 'roosevelt' name?) would be amazing to watch....