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To: calcowgirl

While we are quoting Reagan:


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.




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448 posted on 01/14/2006 7:36:46 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
While we are quoting Reagan...Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)

And I agree with that! But...

1) People on this thread are not "radical conservatives" and
2) Arnold is not "compromising" he is capitulating.
There is a huge difference.
450 posted on 01/14/2006 7:55:41 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: FairOpinion

Girl, you are nothing, if not vainly repetitive!!! Tiresome, to say the least!!! (these exclamation marks are not authorized by 68 grunt)


465 posted on 01/14/2006 10:42:41 PM PST by SierraWasp (EnvironMentalism... America's establishment of it's unconstitutional State Religion!!!)
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