There is a presidential candidate who “toughens his wrists” by wrapping cords around them and hanging from a tree. While not subjected himself to various forms of self-torture in the wilderness, he shoots live ammunition at twigs and trees while jogging. And he doesn’t just carry a gun while exercising, either.
He received some attention for bringing a pistol onto the Harvard campus before giving a speech there. He claimed the campus was not immune to his gun-totting ways because he carries a firearm in lots of public places…and when walking around his house.
Also while at his house, he has been known to randomly jump over tables, chairs and couches just to prove (to himself or others) that he could. When not rivaling his adolescent sons in boyish roughhousing, this candidate occasionally allows bouts of narcissism and signs photos of himself to give to family members, employees, friends and enemies without their request.
He had to publicly promise animal rights activists that he would not kill any animals while visiting Yellowstone National Park. However, he broke that promise by killing a mouse that crossed his trail path. This candidate then kept the mouse body and sent it to the U.S. Biological Survey.
On more distant trips, his behavior becomes even less predictable. When traveling to Africa, he packed along over 70 books. These did not include the three dozen books he has written himself.
Years ago, he wanted to raise a volunteer, machine gun motorcycle militia division to quell violence along the American-Mexican border. The U.S. Army begged him to do no such thing. A short time after that, the man wanted to be promoted to a major general despite having no military service in the last twenty years.
Okay, so he’s not really a candidate in the 2012 election, but would you vote for him?
Congratulations. You just elected Theodore Roosevelt.
Oh God Yes!
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