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Just because you assume something doesn't make it true.

Did you even go to the link I supplied and read what Reagan had to say about political compromise? I'll bet you didn't!

I don't know anything in politics and governing, in our society and culture, that isn't open to some level of compromise. But I'm not an absolutist, or a reactionary. It just depends on who you are and how much you're willing to compromise your principles. If you can't be flexible and keep an open mind, you're doomed to failure.

<I>>>>"From the looks of the posts you seem kind of out of step with conservatives, and no, there were some principles Reagan would just not compromise on, like a conservative platform, and telling moderates and liberal's to go their way, right out of the Party. I can't believe you don't get that. I think you really do, you just rather compromise your name sakes principles."</i>

I've been a Reagan conservative since 1975. It is you whose is out of step with conservatism. While Reagan supported the Republican platform, which was based in the principles of the conservative movement, he always courted independents and dissatisfied Democrats. He knew if he didn't make an appeal to those in the political center, he could never win elective office. While Reagan was a master at political gamesmanship, he understood the need to compromise to some extent and to settle for less then 100% of what he wanted.

On Reagan's tax reform plan, he asked for a 30% cut across the board, but had to settle for 25%. Reagan's greatest legislative achievement, the 1981 tax reductions, was a compromise.

Yes, I read your link, and there is a difference between going toe to toe and hammering out a compromise with democrats and giving them the farm for nothing, nadda, zip in return.

Even to go so far as to take liberal action, when there is no pressure to take liberal action. Here is something else the "gipper" had to say:

"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply swell its numbers...And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way."--Ronald Reagan

I've always gone my own way, it just so happened that it was the same direction the Republican Party use to be headed in. I'm a registered independent. Just because the Republican Party is jumping off a cliff, doesn't mean I have to follow them.

yeah, reagan very successfully made a play for democrat votes. He did it by thumping on conservative issues. Bush is too much a coward to do that. Bush tries to appeal to democrats by being a liberal. Bush is real tough standing up against conservatives and calling them names. But Ronald Reagan wouldn't offend anyone on his side unlike Bush and ronald reagan would go out after democrat votes and get them not by pretending to be a liberal as Bush does, but by being a conservative. Big difference between reagan and bush, we agree on that wholeheartedly.

We shouldn't forget that before GW Bush we had GHW Bush and the elder bush was probably the most malicious destroyer of american jobs that we ever had as president in our nation's history. The young bush isn't really much different from his father in that he just doesn't care about our people or our nation. He lives in the world of the elite, the welfare of the ordinary people means absolutely nothing to him.