Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.