When the editor of Saturday Review asked outgoing president Theodore Roosevelt in 1909 to sum up how he had exercised his executive duties, he replied:
"My business was to take hold of the Conservative Party and turn it into what it had been under Lincoln, that is, a party of progressive conservatism, or conservative radicalism; for of course conservative radicalism and wise conservatism go hand in hand."
That's from page 791 of Douglas Brinkley's fine (and fat) biography "The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the crusade for America" (2009).
And, lordy, how much that very same conservative (Republican) party -- and the country -- need someone like him today!
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So...you don't think that Christine O'Donnell is on a par with Teddy?
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