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To: Skooz
Well, this conservative purist is going to bed. I don't post much on Free Republic anymore, because no one really wants to debate...you're all so delighted to have gotten rid of Clinton you don't understand that you're still the frog in the pot -- the heat has just been turned down from high to medium.
124 posted on 04/19/2003 8:21:51 PM PDT by ModernDayCato
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To: ModernDayCato
...you're all so delighted to have gotten rid of Clinton you don't understand that you're still the frog in the pot ...

Let's say I agree with your premise. How does the election of Hillary/Gephardt/Daschle/The Little Weasle from Carolina to the Presidency further your conservative goals?

"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.


131 posted on 04/19/2003 8:53:28 PM PDT by Skooz (Tagline removed by moderator)
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