Theodore Roosevelt would have agreed. Politics is the art of the possible. There are times when a glass half-full ought not be refused.
The Senate can be recaptured in 2008, The House made closer, and a GOP President elected.
Were it not for the Constitution, Arnold would be the next president - and he'd win in a cakewalk. His advice ought not be dismissed lightly...
Theodore Roosevelt and W. H. Taft, his hand picked clone that eclipsed him in more ways than one, started the progressive road to Socialism.