[Innovative]

Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)

"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.

(Posted on FR by Diddle E. Squat in 2003!)

[GOP Poet]

Wow. Now there’s a find. Nothing like going straight to the source.

[Vigilanteman]

"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. "

And that is exactly why Ronald Reagan had such a sucessful presidency.

Yes, he made mistakes. Even some bad mistakes like Beruit.

But, all in all, his presidency was a rousing success and secured us at least one more generation of freedom which some of the bomb throwing purists are all too willing to p*ss away by trying to teach the GOP a lesson in cooperating with the re-election of BO.