Theodore Roosevelt is the last Republican I liked. He busted the trusts and established the National Parks System and made conservation acceptable. I think the idea of appealing to holdover Roosevelt Republicans is a winning strategy in the West. We're facing a real fight to preserve the Roan Plateau, the Rocky Mountain Front and the Powder River Basin out in here in Colorado and Wyoming. The hunter's up in Wyoming and Montana saved the Rocky Mountain Front last go around, but a lot of hunter's are going to find their favorite hunting grounds chewed up by natural gas roads and rigs this fall. October and November are going to present a Golden opportunity to make Bush look really bad in the Rocky Mountains to a historically dependendable group of voters.
To digress a little bit, Teddy also loved jiu-jitsu/old school judo. I love jiu-jitsu too and I thought this paragraph was really cool.
" ... I still box with Grant, who has now become the champion middleweight wrestler of the United States. Yesterday afternoon we had Professor Yamashita (Yamashita was Roosevelt's Jiu-jitsu instructor before Meada and Tomita had arrived there in the U.S.) up here to wrestle with Grant. It was very interesting, but of course jiu jitsu and our wrestling are so far apart that it is difficult to make any comparison between them. Wrestling is simply a sport with rules almost as conventional as those of tennis, while jiu jitsu is really meant for practice in killing or disabling our adversary. In consequence, Grant did not know what to do except to put Yamashita on his back, and Yamashita was perfectly content to be on his back. Inside of a minute Yamashita had choked Grant, and inside of two minutes more he got an elbow hold on him that would have enabled him to break his arm; so that there is no question but that he could have put Grant out. So far this made it evident that the jiu jitsu man could handle the ordinary wrestler..."
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
(Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children. 1919. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1919 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999
Remember, when anacharists killed McKinley, Roosevelt didn't run and hide in Nebraska, he learned jiu-jitsu. Democrats are currently playing politics like a sport, I think it is more like jiu-jitsu today.
