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To: Peach

Uh.oh.....now you have gone and done it...you have burst the Reaganites perfect memories of Reagan.

They have so worshipped him...that they have managed to FORGET how human and mistaken he was at times.

You better duck!


577 posted on 02/05/2007 7:36:41 PM PST by Txsleuth
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To: Txsleuth

Actually I'm going to be so they can just continue with their circular logic.

I'll leave them with this one.

Reagan said this about compromise:

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, in his autobiography, An American Life .


586 posted on 02/05/2007 7:39:03 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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