Reply #479: I wrote just the opposite, so why do you ask?

[Radical Activist]

They make plenty of deals with enemies to help reach their goals. Civil rights leaders and union Presidents made deals with people they considered enemies all the time. Judging by the attacks on Obama, there are posters here who think compromise of any kind is a sin.

If someone's main goal is to only retain office then that's a problem. But it would be grossly unfair to accuse a large number of liberal activists of only caring about staying in office.