[Weimdog]

Courtesy of justshe:

~~ Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life (Chapter 26, p. 171)

"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.

[Reagan79]

Well we know according to Arnold's own ideology, Ronald Reagan is one of those "radical conservative Republicans." There was never any doubt of Reagan's conservatism, but with Arnold it's not just the liberals he has surrounded himself with, but his own warped platform he has stolen from the DNC handbook.

[Keyes2000mt]

"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.

What percentage are you guys getting if Arnold raises taxes? What percentage of the Conservative agenda is raising taxes? What percentage of the Conservative agenda is more restrictions on firearms? What percentage of the Conservative agenda is more government?

If we're getting 20% rather than 2%, do we consider that a good deal even if your Republican Governor supports Democrat ideas at an alarming rate. Arnold would give us 30% of what we want in a perfect world. In a world of compromise, he may give 15 or 10%

[brownie]

>>>"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.

I understand what a compromise is, but please explain how (R)nold is 75%, or even 50%, of what conservatives want. Hell, demonstrate that he even offers 25% conservative issues.

That is the whole problem w/ stating (R)nold is a compromise. Generally, when you give up something (or in this case, almost everything), you get something in return. What is the return for conservatives for voting for (R)nold?