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Article: True believer: TR, McCain, and conservatism.(Theodore Roosevelt and John McCain)
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- World Affairs
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- September 22, 2008
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Theodore Roosevelt is carved onto Mount Rushmore along with our greatest presidents. (At least the greatest as of 1927, when work on the monument began.) But does he belong in the conservative pantheon? John McCain thinks so. "I count myself as a conservative Republican," he told the New York Times, "yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold." In some conservative circles this caveat deepens the suspicion that McCain may not be one of them. Writing in National Review Online, the Web site of the magazine that has defined mainstream conservatism for move than four decades, author and biographer Michael Knox Beran complains, "Far from allaying ...
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