Possible Clues:

• Night Ranger: "___ Love Affair"
• Not willing to take right road
• Not willing to cross river route in USA
• The American way, in brief, is to preserve what's tacky
• Will unprepared goes around river road in US
• American road not willing to go round river
• Grasping Republican unwilling, perhaps, to discover a way to go in America
• Put into words after testing old children going across America
• American motorway
• Highway in Tennessee's borders, say, following river