Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)

An American Life (his autobiography) | 8/7/03 | Ronald Reagan

[Diddle E. Squat]

"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.

[Paulus Invictus]

He's a poor excuse for a Pubbie and don't forget it if he wins and when he supports abortion, more gun laws and homosexual agendas. Think not? Wait and see. As long as there is a Kennedy in the household, you will see a leftist lean for certain.

[AAABEST]

I just find it interesting that a unknown Canadian nobody has the nerve to question the "credibility" of heavy hitters such as Rush and Mark Levin, and do it to his face no less.

Mark is doing things like suing the corrupt Nature Conservancy while "habs" runs his face about his credibility. "Habs" couldn't shine Mark's shoes.

[Sir Gawain]

Corrected link

[Howlin]

a unknown Canadian nobody

Charming. Just charming.

Mark is doing things like suing the corrupt Nature Conservancy while "habs" runs his face about his credibility.

So, basically what you're saying is that if none of us does 'things' like he does, we should jsut shut the hell up?

"Habs" couldn't shine Mark's shoes.

That is so beneath you.

[Howlin]

Will you now apply that same standard to this thread with the Reagan quote which has been posted more than 10 times on this site?

Can't you do it yourself?

[Sir Gawain]

That's a possibility. So you and Howlin think this little paragraph merits its own thread, while Stew's link does not. No double standard there.

[Dane]

Uh SG, you do know that Ronald Reagan campaigned for the Brady bill, don't you?

[deport]

Where did I say a think about meriting it's own thread? I only asked a question.......

[Sir Gawain]

Can't you do it yourself?

Sure...

Howlin says this little paragraph does not merit its own thread. It has been posted on FR more than 10 times already.

:-)

[Howlin]

Too shy to speak up yourself?

[Howlin]

Beware: the last time SG asked me a question all hell broke loose on The Dose thread and it got moved to chat.

Fred should be along any minute now.

[Sir Gawain]

Never.

[Sir Gawain]

Hey I had nothing to do with that.

[Howlin]

Then why drag me into it?

[justshe]

You have anything to add to the topic of this thread....or are you just trolling and baiting?

[Sir Gawain]

Then why drag me into it?

Because I don't get to pick on you often enough. hehe

I really didn't bring anyone with me on that Dose thread btw.

[Dane]

Fred should be along any minute now.

Nah, IMO, Fred is actually the wooden dummy, parrotting the biker bars words on FR.

[AAABEST]

"BTW, AAA, I will wait for your obigatory and cowardly reply(not pinging me and putting up a derogatory picture towards me as your reply."

[Sir Gawain]

You have anything to add to the topic of this thread....or are you just trolling and baiting?

The trolling was done by the poster of this thread. This compromise vs. principle issue is being debated on in, gee, I don't know, almost every thread on FR.

[Howlin]

That I believe; you were the only one acting decently that night. (Of course, I should really say that in public; you'll be damned to hell for that one!)

Because I don't get to pick on you often enough. hehe

Sorry, you'll have to take a number.

Or you could arm wrestle "The Legend" for stalking privliges.