Neocon “godfather” Irving Kristol cites Teddy Roosevelt as the prototypical neocon icon. Billy Kristol and the rest of the boys at The Weakly-Argued Standard are just wild about Teddy, along with Franklin, Abe, and Dubya. Mark Twain, who met “TR” on several occassions, said the man was “clearly insane.” He was also pro-war, pro-tax, and anti-market, which explains precisely why he is the towering icon of the neocons. In his book, 1912, James Chase writes of how TR responded to Woodrow Wilson’s comment during the election campaign of that year that “the history of liberty is the history of the … Continue reading The Beloved TR