I remember when there was such a thing a a real Republican.
I remember when there was such a thing a a real Republican.
Bold and underline formatting is mine.
~~ 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.
Memories may 'light the corner of your mind'.......but 'tis always a good thing to keep them HONEST memories, no? Reagan understood the political realities. President Bush does too, imo.