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To: wagglebee

There, now that you’ve got you jabs in, I hope you feel much better now.

You know, a great American president, Ronald Reagan, once said, (”A political party cannot be all things to all people.” — Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75.)

...ever heard of that before?


76 posted on 01/20/2008 1:58:29 PM PST by kelly.s
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To: kelly.s
Uh, perhaps you would like to read the rest of the quote:

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

It is from the CPAC speech that Reagan gave in 1975 after the GOP had lost big in the mid-term elections. The focus of the speech was about NOT COMPROMISING with liberals within the party.

You and other RINOs invariably think that Reagan was promoting compromise.

Ronald Reagan: Let Them Go Their Way

84 posted on 01/20/2008 2:05:16 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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