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To: 1010RD

Thank you.

Another thing for non-compromising conservatives to consider is that all they accomplished by not supporting the GOP is to get Dems elected, time and time again.

Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It’s time for conservatives to change strategy and focus on getting rid of the enemies of the country and freedom, the Democrats.

In the words of the great President Reagan, on the art of compromise:

“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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36 posted on 04/04/2010 2:04:51 PM PDT by SmartInsight (Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~ G. J. Nathan)
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To: SmartInsight
David? David FRUM? Didn't you just get FIRED?
57 posted on 04/04/2010 2:41:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.http://www.free)
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