You're not up on the conservative politics of Ronald Reagan I see and his great accomplishments as POTUS.
Didn't quite happen that way but I have a quote that is coming in real handy lately.
"This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
Reagan made alot of compromises and did some budget gymnastics to get the country where he wanted it. One of Reagan's best lines was something like "get what you can today and go back and get the rest later". You guys going around clubbing people with the Reagan legend are useless.
You're not up on the conservative politics of Ronald Reagan I see and his great accomplishments as POTUS.
Here is the Reagan quote you were talking about:
Ronald Reagan in his own words, from 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."
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The same people who claim Reagan's legacy were the same ones who criticized him at the time. Reagan called them "radical conservatives".
