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To: sakic
Reagan had words for these sorts of self appointed Conservative Purity Police.

By Ronald Reagan in 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."

79 posted on 02/12/2016 5:19:39 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: MNJohnnie

Zero has hit a run every swing thanks to fake conservatives for 8 years but Trump followers think that was a fluke or something.

When the Left hogties DT don’t say you weren’t warned.


84 posted on 02/12/2016 5:30:22 AM PST by txhurl (I'm NO LONGER with the Nasty Canadian '16 (well, unless he wins ;))(and he did))
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To: MNJohnnie

I was only referring to their deliveries being similar.


124 posted on 02/12/2016 8:06:54 AM PST by sakic
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