But neither Perry nor Kobach is likely ever to be a US president, whereas Theodore Roosevelt was more than a partisan. He was happy to make deals with Democrats – to put himself at the head not just of the Republican Party but of the bipartisan Progressive coalition, trying either to yoke the two forces together or to tack back and forth between them to achieve legislative and policy goals.
但不论是佩里还是科巴赫，都不可能成为美国总统，而西奥多·罗斯福已经超越了党派色彩。他乐于与民主党做交易——让自己不仅成为共和党的党首，也当上跨党派的进步联盟的首脑，他通过促使两党齐头并进和周旋于两党之间左右逢源达到立法和政策目标。