Watching all the partisan political bickering and mudslinging makes me pine for the good old days when our leaders could disagree on policy yet walk away in peace and respect with a common greater good in mind. That common greater good was the preservation of the great democratic experiment that is America.  Instead, what we see today is nothing but vitriolic and childish idiocy that is tearing apart our great Union.  Gone are the days of compromise forged by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton, and of Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neal. While these men fought vigorously from their ideologically opposite corners, they were also able to set…