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In the cover piece of April 30 ("A CEO for the USA?"), Richard Lowry calls Mitt Romney a proficient manager and CEO. That is precisely what worries informed conservatives. Management expertise is not what America needs from a president, particularly in a time of moral and social crisis and of sweeping cultural change. Management is what a good professional staff is supposed to provide; leadership is something else entirely, and we would not want to conflate management with the higher virtue of leadership. America needs leadership based on an inflexibly constitutionalist and minimum-government worldview.
Throughout his political career, Romney has valued mere management over the substance of what he has managed. His chief contribution as governor of Massachusetts was his bungling of the gay-marriage issue. Professor of jurisprudence Hadley Arkes was quite correct when he described on NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE how ...