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To: meandog

I am so tired of compromised out people vilifying those that have PRINCIPLES and stnd on them. It’s not just a leftist tactic ... as you can see.


3 posted on 02/15/2008 10:02:55 AM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: nmh
I am so tired of compromised out people vilifying those that have PRINCIPLES and stnd on them. It’s not just a leftist tactic ... as you can see.

Yes, stick to your PRINCIPLES and provide de-facto support to Hillary! or Obama on their way to the Oval Office.

Perhaps you should reflect on the words of President Ronald W. Reagan:

"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.

President Ronald W. Reagan

Since when has compromise become a dirty word? Compromise IS politics.

The most conservative mainstream GOP politician of the last 100 years, Barry Goldwater, was right when he said extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!

In this case, your extremism - "My way or the highway" - WILL lead to great reductions in your liberty because you're essentially supporting Hillary! or Obama on their way to the presidency. It IS vice at that point.

56 posted on 02/15/2008 11:45:21 AM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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