[paulycy]

we are going to have trouble if people don't willing accept compromise on both sides.

It seems that this idea would be more useful if there were specific points upon which to compromise. For instance:

Support public option?
Raise taxes?
Support Cap and Trade?
Support a second or even third stimulus?

I merely offer these as concrete starting points. And I cannot remain this afternoon to debate (sorry.)

If we can/can't compromise on specific points then we can/can't pull together for 2010...???

[Miss Marple]

No, those are issues we DON'T compromise on. But surely we can compromise on style. For instance, one group of people wants to go all-out attacking Obama; the other group (within the GOP) wants to be polite and not get hit with charges of racism. Somewhere between those two camps is a strategy that would go after Obama's policies and further erode his popularity without making him a martyr. Similarly, some of the Frum-Brooks group (mostly northeasterners) despise Sarah Palin because she isn't from an Ivy League school and they hate hearing a prominent GOP person mocked at the parties they go to. Well, it's time for them to be armed with some salient points for rebuttal and quit carping in newspapers about how bad Palin is. My opinion on this is either they shut up about Palin or we tell them to find another party.