Liberal Republican Presidents

[MarkDel]

I voted for Nixon. How in the hell can anyone vote for Teddy Roosevelt as a liberal??? His foreign policy was wayyyy to the right wing which more than offset his fascination with the environment and his anti-big business credentials. Teddy as a liberal??? Not with that expansionist foreign policy.

[MarkDel]

Gustaf,

I am using the modern definition of "Liberal" which is very different than the historical defintion of the word. And under the modern definition, TR is not a liberal.

As for the "isolationist" statement you made, you are partially correct. The Republican Party was isolationist from the post-Teddy Roosevelt era into World War II.

However, if you think an aggressive foreign policy is strictly a post 9/11 invention of neo-conservatives, then I guess you missed Ronald Reagan's 8 years in office or the Presidency of the first George Bush. Or I guess you missed dedicated Cold Warriors like Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford...not to mention Kennedy who may as well have been a Republican and probably would be if he were alive today.