Originally Posted by
Roody
Ray LaHood and Theodore Roosevelt are (were) Republicans but i don't think of them as conservatives. TR even left the GOP and headed a progressive party for several years, and LaHood is a cabinet secretary in a Democratic admionistration.
You might be right about the others you mentioned--I don't know enough about them to comment.
However, it has never been a plank in the GOP platform and most right wingers actively oppose public transit if it's financially supported by government.
I didn’t say it was a party plank in the party platform I said they are considered Republicans and conservatives by the people in charge of placing boxes around people and calling them names. It is simply another form of name calling like the term Tea Bagger. It is slang and a connotation that if reversed to use against someone from a more liberal leaning would be considered narrow minded. Much like the slang terms for people of other faiths, race, sexual orientation or gender. I said cycling and alternative transportation is not a single sided political matter and shouldn’t be ascribed to any Political party. Teddy may be a progressive to many but think about what he had in common with Sarah Palin and how the liberal left views her hunting, fishing, and snow mobile riding. Think how the “Nation” would portray Teddy today.
As for my contention about Al Gore?
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate...carbon_fo.html
I am not going to list all the sites that talk about the 4 homes and the new big house the Gores got. But Tipper will get half of them I guess so maybe he will at last lower his excesses. I don't remember him being car free or even a cyclists is he?