Disclaimers such as these will keep him down too. It is the foolishness of pragmatism that criticizes true statesmen and gives bubble-headed posers swift acclaim.
Alan needs to be an intregal part of this effort in the area where he excels like no other, and that is expounding on the truth of the situation as it relates to our constitutional republic and its founding principles and thus being a strong part of the overall effort to turn this around.
But that is just my opinion.