I am sorry but this fantasy land Talk Radio Reagan never existed in the real world. The real President Reagan could never of lived up to the standards being involked about him by today's "Conservative" media Establishment.
Reagan had advice for the sort of 100%er dogmatic purist "Conservatives" who are so busy invoking his name these days
By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life
“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.”
There’s nothing in what he’s saying that isn’t true, and it doesn’t mean he waived from his convictions.
Regean was right about the most staunch conservatives, they are too dogmatic in their belief it’s their way or a highway.
In politics, and in life, sometimes you have to take what you can get and fight for more later, you have to pick and choose your battles, otherwise you’ll end up looking like some whiny whack job.
Too bad so many don’t understand what it takes to accomplish goals like ours in a realistic setting, those who refuse to compromise are the ones that usually get nothing done, and when their done, have nothing to show for the time they spent in office since they didn’t accomplish a damn thing other to look like a hard headed stubborn fool.
It’s during elections like this that I really miss Ronny, he always knew what to say to put the media and libs in their place.