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.
Now, as Paul Harvey would say: Here's the rest of the story. Reagan took office in 1967 when there were still some liberal but God and Country civilized Democrats in his legislature and, I believe that they controlled the State Senate. OTOH, there were some pretty serious Birchers in Reagan's California then to whom he was actually talking in your quote. They had never gotten over the fact that they could not elect Joe Shell as governor and have immediate nationally televised mass executions of leftists and Bilderbergers and CFR members and what not (OK, I exaggerate but not by much!).
Reagan NEVER had much use for leftists posing as Republicans. Remember that our banner should be "only bold colors no pale pastels???" George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller and William Scranton and Ed Brooke despised Reagan and he them. No one familiar with Ronaldus Maximus should imagine that if he were alive and possessed of his marbles and in his prime, he would somehow reject the principles of his lifetime for the sorry likes of Mittler. Also, the "Eleventh Commandment" of Gaylord Parkinson (?) not Ronaldus Maximus does NOT apply.
Mittler NEVER voted for Reagan and Mittler said so himself.
Compromise with Pat Brown era Democrats (a few of them) in 1967 is one thing. Compromising on every social issue and caving in to Pelosi, Reid, and their ilk in THIS era is quite another. For POTUS, conservatives have no 2012 major party candidate. That may pain you but it is true. Do you think Reagan (or FDR) would have settled for a mere 3% (which is about much as you and Muffy's trust fund can hope for from Mittler in exchange for the destruction of GOP and the nation???) but, hey "we" beat Obozo!!!!!!!
I was a Reagan State Chairman when he challenged Ford (an earlier Mittler). Were you?
If you succeed in electing this barbarian disgrace Mittler as though he were a Republican much less a conservative, pray to God to postpone the inevitable day when you despair over what you have done.
Don't tell me about Nancy or Little Ronnie Tutu or Patty or their opinions, either. Do you hear anything from Ed Meese and Judge William P. Clark? They are both alive and silent. Wonder why?
Repeat Offender is on the side of the angels here and MNJohnnie is suffering from Mittler influenza, a passing phenomenon with a short shelf life. He will likely recover sooner than he thinks.