Welcome to the New Bull Moose Party!

Why the new Bull Moose Party, you might ask?

The original Bull Moose Party, actually named the Progressive Party, was formed by Teddy Roosevelt, after losing to William H. Taft for the Republican nomination for the 1912 Presidential race.

The Bull Moose Party was progressive both in its democratic ideals - e.g. calling for women's suffrage - and it's view of the role of government. Government, in the progressive's eyes, was capable of being a force for good, an entity capable of effecting positive change. The Bull Moose Party stood for higher taxes on the rich, more social welfare and economic protection for the poor, and regulation of those elements of capitalism that impoverish people.

These are the ideals of progressivism. They are ideals that flourished in F.D.R.'s New Deal and in Johnson's Great Society. They are ideals that today's Democratic Party has abandoned.

As the 2008 election season begins this fall, this new Bull Moose Party will push for a return to the progressive values that have become lost in the current political climate. There are more progressives out there than many politicians realize. And we will be heard again.