With no acceptable presidential candidates yet available, our support should not go to any person, says LaRouche, but to the conception of the presidency.

In this patriotic spirit, Eric Rauchway, professor at University of California Davis, and author of Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America, commented in the New Republic, that Democrats should welcome the chance to blast Republicans for attacking FDR.

"This November 8 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's election as president of the United States. Chosen to resolve the worst non-military crisis in the nation's history, Roosevelt led the country through the Great Depression as well as its greatest military crisis since the Civil War. Americans have memorialized him on the dime and in Washington, DC. Yet for some reason Republicans want to run against his legacy. It's a fight Democrats should let the GOP pick."