Ultra-right conspiracy lunacy is nothing new.

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Irrelevant. Here in the US there would be no minimum wage if the far right had it's way.

Irrelevant my ass, looks like you can't rebut it so maybe you should consider the possibility that it has more to do with a realistic approach to business than simply wanting to go back a few centuries. The far left would make US into a commie nation if it had it's way, so don't act like far left sh** doesn't stink. Both extremes of the spectrum stink big time, but anyways I'm tired of affirming that and I shouldn't even have to say it.

Plus you've pointed out the 1940's when the JBS originated in 1958 so this thread looks like yet another smear on the entire right side of the spectrum.

I'm not surprised, but telling Inuyasha to shut up in response to the questioning of the credibility of your sources was a suicide on your credibility.

My irritation with Inuyasha's derail tactics somehow puts my credibility into question? What are you smoking? Practically all Inuyasha does is tell people that their "sources aren't credible" because of "liberal bias". He says this and then goes on to copy and paste the most irrelevant off-topic material from the most far-right biased sources possible. If he can point out specific instances of factual inaccuracies in an article I post then I'll take him seriously. However, merely pointing out that an article comes from a source Inuyasha doesn't approve of neither contributes to the discussion nor proves anything. It's weak and it's reached the point where it's beyond tedious.

Um... you missed my point entirely. Teddy Roosevelt was not a right-winger. It is anachronistic to attach our modern notions of Republican=Conservative or Democrat=liberal to early 20th century politics. Progressivism is very clearly a left of center ideology. Certainly Beck has demonized Progressives in general (and Teddy Roosevelt in particular) for their leftism.

The Democrats were initially the more conservative/right-wing party. Their precursors (the Democratic-Republicans) opposed the expansions of government authority that the Federalists wanted, and favored states' rights over the more powerful central government desired by the Federalists. The Democratic Party of the early to mid 19th century was not in favor of the rapid industrialization and universal public education that the Whigs promoted (hence conservative- desiring instead to remain an agrarian economy and keep education relatively more privatized). They were conservative in desiring to maintain the systems set up in America's founding, including the institution of slavery, in contrast to the progressives and abolitionists of the early Republican party, who pursued a progressve social agenda (abolition, expansion of suffrage) while expanding the government's role (national banks, higher taxes, increased funding for education). The Republicans of the Progressive Era continued to be more left-leaning than the Democrats, including the push for (and successful passage of) Prohibition. It was only with the formation of the New Deal Coalition under FDR that the Democrats began to adopt left-of-center economic stances, although socially conservative elements (notably the Dixiecrats) were still very influential up through the 1960s. As late as the 1960s and 1970s, there was a strong liberal wing in the Republican Party, spearheaded by Nelson Rockefeller. Only with the "Reagan Revolution" do I think we can really conclusively classify the GOP as part of what we recognize as a modern right-wing movement, and the Democratic Party still has a significant conservative wing in the Blue Dog Democrats.

So. GOP!=Conservative when we are talking about politicians who were active a century ago. Mainstream scholarship recognizes at least one major political realignment since that time (the formation of the New Deal Coalition) while several further shifts, if not complete realignments, from the 1960s through 1980s are a matter of serious debate. It is inappropriate and anachronistic to label Teddy Roosevelt as a right-wing conservative, especially if your only basis for doing so is his party affiliation.

Teddy Roosevelt was socially left of centre and fiscally conservative. Free market and trust busting sounds pretty right wing to me. Trust busting might look like a left wing thing, but the whole idea of capitalism is to promote competition, efficiency, and innovation. Since trust busting is about punishing anti-competitive practices, it is very congruent with the ideal of capitalism.