"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."
Wise words to consider...
Reagan and the Founding Fathers were playing with losing hands. They managed to win anyway.
This is a strawman. If we were or had been getting getting 75% or 80% there would be reason to rejoice. But the leadership of the Stupid Party hardly ever gets anything - who remembers the Continuing Resolution spending cuts fraud or the debt ceiling fiasco? We are now looking into the abyss culturally and economically, and we don’t have leadership strong enough, or a people with enough character, to do what needs to be done to save the country from catastrophe.
How do you compromise with MARXISTS?
Reagan never compromised his conservative principles. He fought for the best deal possible he could get. In the end, Reagan was highly successful and he secured that "75%-80%" goal he talked about.
Over the years Reagan also said:
“We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.”
~~~ Ronald Reagan, 1965
“Join me in a dream of a California whose government isn't characterized by political hacks and cronies and relatives--an administration that doesn't make its decisions based on political expediency but on moral truth. Together, let us find men to match our mountains.”
~~~ Ronald Reagan, 1966
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.”
~~~ Ronald Reagan, March 1, 1975
“Let us lay to rest, once and for all, the myth of a small group of ideological purists trying to capture a majority. Replace it with the reality of a majority trying to assert its rights against the tyranny of powerful academics, fashionable left-revolutionaries, some economic illiterates who happen to hold elective office and the social engineers who dominate the dialogue and set the format in political and social affairs.
If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found among the enemies of freedom on the left or right — those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives.”
~~~ Ronald Reagan: Speech at the 4th Annual CPAC Convention: A New Republican Party, February 6, 1977
(The Founding Fathers and Reagan Practiced the Art of Compromise)
That’s why we have a domineering, out of control Federal government and 30 million illegals invading our country.
It’s all about winning and losing to these idiots - what’s best for the country is not a consideration.