American Thinker: Where Is The Republican Vision?

"In a Los Angeles Times op-ed from January 2004, famed liberal historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., wrote the following:

The president of the United States, wrote Henry Adams, the most brilliant of American historians, 'resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.' The Constitution awards presidents the helm, but creative presidents must possess and communicate the direction in which they propose to take the country. The port they seek is what the first President Bush dismissively called 'the vision thing.'
One of the most striking features of last week's Republican presidential debate was the near total lack of 'the vision thing' among the assembled candidates. Only John McCain offered a clear reason for electing him president: to wage war against Islamic terrorists and to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. As McCain explained: "

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