The writer's analysis is hopelessly flawed, when he writes a sentence like that. The vast majority of Americans do not have a clear political philosophy. True they have some generalized points on which they more or less agree. True at any given moment, the minority who pay much attention to political matters, will describe themselves one way or another--based upon the way the issues have been presented to them, most recently--but that is about it. The essence of leadership is to determine how those issues are presented to them; hence to determine how they line up.
Leadership does not accept the existing line up, and then react to it by offering to compromise with those on the other side of that lineup. That is mind-boggling simplistic, and an obvious error. I believe that President Bush has some leadership abilities. But he has not been demonstrating them on the Domestic front. Rather he is embracing idea after idea that undermines what he will be able to do in the future. He needs a wakeup call for his own sake, not an effort to instill a false confidence, that could set us all back, while it destroys him.
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So now that I have your attention, do you or do you not consider that you owe your primary allegiance to the United States of America.
Enquiring minds want to know.
As for your criticism of Roeser's reasoning, he has fought in the political trenches on behalf of the GOP for allmost 50 years and has held down a responsible job in the federal government.
Why should anyone believe that you know more than he does?