I happened to finally catch up on some NY Times reading, and caught the op-ed piece by Timothy Egan from two days ago called “Mount Rushmore or Less”. In it he says that John McCain, who calls himself a “Teddy Roosevelt Republican” is anything but. In case you aren’t familiar with Egan, he wrote a book called The Worst Hard Time, about the days of the Dust Bowl in the U.S. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my list. He also won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. These days he contributes to a blog on the NY Times called the Opinionator, and writes the occasional op-ed column.
See his column contrasting Teddy Roosevelt with John McCain here: http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/rushmore-or-less/index.html?ref=opinion
