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Than I am sure you are familiar with this:
(Luis Gonzales posted this on another thread last night)

"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

It would seem that your 'ideal' understood the 'art' of politics. He understood that 'those radical conservatives' had an impossible 'perfect world' built up in their minds, that NO ONE could ever achieve. I would put you in that category. Either that.........or you are just hooked on 'bitching'........no matter WHO is in office.