By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life
“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.”
“If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for,”
Asking for a Conservative candidate without a record of promoting abortion, homo marriage, gun grabbing and a socialist health care system.
It’s gotten so bad that asking for this is considered “progressive Democrat”? On Free Republic? Pffft. What a joke. You’re voting for liberal. I’m not.
At least Reagan, unlike today’s so-called GOP leaders, understood what he could accomplish not by “compromising” but starting with the idea of reaching the brass ring and then happy to get 75%.
The left learned hard from this. That is why they, today, mimmick the concept and propose unreal spending programs knowing if they get 55-70% of that they are WAY ahead. Mostly because today’s GOP are cowards.