Reply #70: Uh, of COURSE quid pro quo is the rule.

[MADem]

Wellstone understood that, and still he slept at night. Deeply, happily, ready to do battle the following day.

That's the essence of COMPROMISE, see? Left, right...and that big mushy middle!!! Quid Pro Quo!!!

I find it funny that he, a committed progressive, could see the forest for the trees, and so many people here just cannot, for the life of them, see the solid path he has beaten.

It's kinda...uh...pathetic?

You do what you must to advance the ball towards the goal. It's not a quickie result you're gonna get.

Only an idiot and a hectoring scold takes the immediate gratification of Gingrichesque short-term gains. Because that gratification does not last.

The smart bet is the LONG VIEW, the BIG PIC.

Wellstone got that.


The people who CLAIM to follow him don't get it at all.