Theodore Roosevelt's platform called for tariff reform, stricter regulation of industrial combinations, women's suffrage, prohibition of child labor, and other reforms.

He called for the direct election of U.S. senators, preferential primaries in presidential years, votes for women, a federal securities commission, regulation of trusts, reduced tariffs, workers compensation, safety and health standards in industry, the creation of a national health service, the construction of national highways, the imposition of a graduated income tax, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, abolition of child labor and pure food and drug laws.

He was fighting evil. He was fighting, as Revelations 19:19 says, "the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against [the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords]." Armageddon is the last great battle at the end of the world. Evil to him was the Romanoffs, the Russian royalty, uncontrolled capitalism, anything that persecutes the laboring class and causes them to revolt. If conditions did not improve, he felt that there would be a revolution. "If the Romanoffs of our social and industrial world are kept at the head of our Government the result will be Bolshevism, and Bolshevism means disaster to liberty, writ large across the face of this continent." One need only look at the effects of the Russian revolution and communism to see that he was right. T.R. began the fight for worker's rights that prevented a similar revolution from happening here.

He aroused a religious fervor when his voice rang out:

win or lose, we shall not falter. Whatever fate may at the moment overtake any of us, the movement itself will not stop. Our cause is based on the eternal principle of righteousness...you men who...have come together to spend and be spent in the endless crusade against wrong, to you who face the future resolute and confident, to you who strive in a spirit of brotherhood for the betterment of our nation, to you who gird yourselves for this great new fight in the never-ending warfare for the good of mankind, I say in closing...We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.

At Carnegie Hall he spoke these words:

I am not leading this fight as a matter of aesthetic pleasure. I am leading because somebody must lead, or else the fight would not be made at all...we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls...[they are but instruments] to be used until broken and then to be cast aside....In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all of us is spend and be spent. It is of little matter whether any one man fails or succeeds; but the cause shall not fail, for it is the cause of mankind.

I live to research.

Liberals hate intestinal fortitude, and Teddy had guts so they hate him . .. yet without him the major part of the Democratic Party (women) would not be allowed to vote. He heroically fought against child labor. He invented minimum wage dude . . . and health care.

Great jumping Jehosefat - liberals don't know if they're shot, stumped, powder burned, or snake bit. They hate a man who had the first Black man in the White House who was not a servant (Ted ate dinner and hung out with the man) . . . and was even renowned throughought Russia for helping with the plight of Jews.

He also created environmentalism. Without TR, there would be no ELF. My God, man.

Peace,
-WP

EDIT: I'm mystified by librals sometimes. You just know that when a liberal ellitist sees a guy acting too Nazi and brash . . . they wanna call him a girlie man. Sometimes you gotta bully your way through. That's probably why TRs favorite expression was, "Bully!!" . . . not dissimilar from the Brittish expression, "Bully for you!!" . . . saved for when someone has done something brave. Silly liberals, man silly. You really have to be in an ivory tower and not be experiencing the occasional rowdyness like the reast of us have to deal with . . . if you still feel that every conservative needs to, "loosen up" just because they feel that some boundaries are necessary.

I grew up in the 80s when a little old lady said three words that tickled everybody's funny bone. She gruffly said, "Where's the beef?" and made everybody think twice about the size of their burger.

I think my expression of the decade is, "Where's the poor?" . . . because American poor is pretty darned spoiled. I've totally hung out with them (the poorest, my son) and they're all leading pretty good lives and really . . . their main problem is that they are indifferent and bratty. Instead of really righteously outraged, baby. Dead serious. The protesters you see are doing it out of boredom. It's their art that they do because they are pampered and they get bored.

People always say that America is turning facist. I'd like to state for the record that I'm really into Feudalism. Straight up. I like the harsh, simple life and wish we were living off the land more. I wish we were embracing the cruelty of Nature along with the milk and honey. That is how we will survive. Facism seems kinda . . . silly. It seems kinda sci-fi stupid and dry . . . but I think SOME of that is inevitable with such a large and apathetic population.

Facism is WAY more pansy than Feudalism. More spoiled and poofy. Any Feudalist in his armor can whup any Nazis backside. It's also more romantic, brave, and just. Believe me, you want the justice. It's a control element just like a system of checks and ballances is with three branches; the executive, the legislative, and the judicial, etc. The lack of justice in warfare is what made Rome the most brutal state in history.

I really, really love justice and purity. Facism is very bratty . . . but I honestly can't say that even the poor folk in America aren't brats so until the poor shape up and become what they were and get the karma on their side . . . Facists can keep claiming that they're fighting fire with fire and don't need to trim the fat and I can't do anything. Neither can anyone else because the bratty level is SPIKING off the chart. It's all just McCarthy Republidumbs gettin' all Rush Limbaugh.

The point is that the poor ain't the poor. When there are real poor people in America who won't put up with bullying Facism will just fade away. It's math - justice always prevails. It's mightier, ladies and gentlemen. That's why Nazis are girlie men.

They're silly.