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Posted on 02/21/2014 6:02:26 PM PST by Innovative
Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise (in his own words)
An American Life (his autobiography) | 8/7/03 | Ronald Reagan
Posted on 8/7/2003 2:05:04 PM by Diddle E. Squat
"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.
Ronald Reagan was a great man. Not a surrender monkey like you. KMA!!
OUT...OF...CONTEXT!
Ronald Reagan also had a quote about not having fought for so hard and so long, only to surrender to the liberals in our own party. I couldn’t find it just now, but I’ll bet someone will in due time.
I’m looking for it also.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3125613/posts?page=69#69
Neglected to ping you on Post #25.
To save time, why not just tell us your point?
What “compromise” are you wanting to win us to?
Why in your opinion do conservatives always have to compromise, but Democrats never have to?
I think you confused some definitions. Compromise does not man surrender.
Gotta hand it to you. You really have a charming way of convincing people. Exactly like your ilk in the GOPe! Keep it up.
IBTZ
Can you come out from behind the curtain and answer a question honestly? Why would you be a Republican if you think Republicans are bad guys and always wrong?
/johnny
You are a useful idiot. IBTZ. Nothing but troll
Still looking. Here’s one, but it’s not the one I’m looking for:
“I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, ‘We must broaden the base of our party’- when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents”
The difference between Reagan and your boot licking pice of Texas dirt Cornyn is that Mr. Reagan had principles from which he never walked back. Cornyn is a sleazy jerk who loves the power that being in DC gives him. Reagan never cared who got the credit. Cornyn only cares about getting the credit.
You best bet at this point buck is to give it up
No we are ALL calling you a RINO and lying slime bucket to go with it.
You are no conservative. Why you are even on this site is beyond me. The fact that you think Cornyn is something other than the simpering pig at the tough is laughable
you have respect for no one
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