"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, from his autobiography, An American Life.
Reagan knew his priorities. We spent too much, but Luis ... I have somehow avoided rummaging through dumpsters for my meals. And we are free, and the Wall is down. The Soviet Union is NO MORE. Ronnie did good.
Bush has the next challenge. With God's blessing, he'll be up to the task. We'll root the evil of Islamism from every source, we'll take some losses and we'll destroy or enemies. But, how will we survive not being blanket spammed with NRA literature in the last 30 days of a campaign?
Let's rank our enemies to American freedom and life ... is it Osama first, then the CFR bill, then Saddam's chemical weapons? Or is it Saddam's suitcase nukes, then the 245i Amnesty outrage, then Al Qaida's murderous American sleepers? Where's Abe Lincoln in this mix?
So much seige, Luis.