What Would Teddy Roosevelt Do?

John McCain famously idolizes Teddy Roosevelt, so he’ll want to read this fun article from today’s Times. Edmund Morris, a Roosevelt biographer, has taken some real quotes from T.R. and cast them as his response to our current political predicament. On the chance that Sarah Palin might be elected: “I shall feel exactly the way a very small frog looks when it swallows a beetle the size of itself, with extremely stiff legs.” On the ever-talkative Joe Biden: “You can’t nail marmalade against a wall.” On Dubya: “He looks like Judas, but unlike that gentleman has no capacity for remorse.”