"... we need a new incarnation of the Bull Moose Party."I had to look it up:
In the United States, the Progressive Party of 1912 was a political party created by a split in the Republican Party in the presidential election of 1912. It was formed by Theodore Roosevelt when he lost the Republican nomination to the incumbent President William Howard Taft and pulled his delegates out of the convention. The party is colloquially also known as the Bull Moose Party, after the party's emblem and after Roosevelt's boast that he was "as strong as a bull moose"."To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." - Yes, I think I could support that as a Party Platform!
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"To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." - 1912 Progressive Party Platform.
[Wikipedia, Progressive Party (United States, 1912); emphasis added]
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It's fun to track the iterations of party platforms through history. There are a lot of confused people out there who don't understand the party they claim...particularly the Feminist Republicans, the uninsured Republicans, and the blue-collar Republicans. I can't even begin to imagine the thinking behind those affiliations. Frankly, Christian Republicans confuse me, too. The Bull Moose Party sounds muscular, and we could use some of that!
ReplyDeleteI think my favorites are the Log Cabin Republicans.
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