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To: RGSpincich

“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


38 posted on 11/11/2006 4:38:04 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave
You "purists" were tearing at Reagan's jugular back then as a "RINO" just as you do today to anyone who doesn't meet your idea of perfection. Start operating in the real world and then we can all combine efforts to pull the country right-wards as Reagan did.

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

Ronald Reagan

"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.

43 posted on 11/11/2006 4:58:21 PM PST by Tamzee (Thomas Jefferson - "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.")
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