He's 0/3 of a real Conservative.
"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.
For the War Against Terror, President Bush is the best I can think of, except possibly Secretary Rice. For that reason and because of Justices Roberts and Alito, the President will always have my gratitude and likely my support.
I hope he decided not to fight Congress tooth and nail on spending and on issues like McCain-Feingold because of concern that he needs support in the War. Of course, the fact that the President drives the left bonkers (not a very far drive, I must admit) is sufficient reason to support him.