It Is Not Un-Patriotic...It Is Just Not Pro-American

""I heard somebody say, `Well, maybe so-and-so is not patriotic because they disagree with my position.' I totally reject that thought," Bush said. "This is not an issue of who's patriotic and who's not patriotic," he said. "It's an issue of an honest, open debate about the way forward in Iraq.""
Terrence Hunt. Associated Press, 11/20/05.

Bad policy is not in the public interest. A supporter of bad policy, therefore, supports something that is not in the public interest. Thus, support that runs contrarily to the public interest is support that opposes the American people. Someone cannot rationally determine, then, that supporting bad policy is pro-American. To steer our nation back from Constitutional erosion, we cannot support anyone that supports bad policy. Hence, we cannot support anyone that is not pro-American.