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To: rabscuttle385
Words from Ronald W. Reagan regarding 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.

All those who demand ideological purity at all times are fools, and forgetting the lessons and words of the greatest Conservative President of the 20th century.

53 posted on 01/15/2010 10:15:34 AM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier
and words of the greatest Conservative President of the 20th century.

Calvin Coolidge?

Ohhhh, I forgot! Conservatives want "charisma."

60 posted on 01/15/2010 10:17:03 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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