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Barbour tells NH GOP inclusion is key ["We're a big party"]
The Union Leader, Manchester, NH ^ | 2009-06-24 | Jillian Jorgersen

Posted on 06/24/2009 9:19:20 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

BEDFORD – The Republican party needs to rebuild itself from the bottom up, said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour last night before addressing a gathering at a New Hampshire State Republican Committee reception.

"You're in the White House for eight or 12 years, you become a top-down party, I don't care if these are Republicans or Democrats.

When you get out, you're liberated to rebuild your party from the bottom up," he told reporters before a reception at at C.R. Sparks, which was closed to the press.

Barbour assumed chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association yesterday, following South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's resignation from the post. Sanford announced his resignation during a press conference, after admitting to an extramarital affair that took him to Argentina last week.

(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2012; 2012gopprimary; barbour; barbour2012; bigtent; gopfuture; inclusiveness; newgop; nh2012; rga; rino; rinoparty
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To: rabscuttle385
I think Barbour is right on the money. Unfortunately, so many here are overreaction because of a few bad apples like our last few presidential candidates and senators.

I heard Barbour speak in my state, and this is talking about the same stuff here as he did here. He's a state's rights guy and believes in leaving those issues to the states. Besides that, its general less government.

21 posted on 06/24/2009 9:57:47 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We do what we have to do.)
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To: rockinqsranch
Not really. It is a bit of inside baseball terminology. The problem is that when Bush was in charge, it was a top down party based on Bush. The GOP was supposed to follow Bush....and his big government programs.

The hypocracy cost us in 2006 and also in 2008 when leadership failed to heed its 2006 lessons.

22 posted on 06/24/2009 9:59:27 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We do what we have to do.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Barbour was the original “Big Tenter” and was partially responsible for the Bob Dole debacle of 1996(I was there).


23 posted on 06/24/2009 10:01:51 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: unkus

Can we just leave the ReDUMBlican party behind and start over. I am soooooooo sick of these RINO lib dirtbags.

Can Sarah Palin start the new party up for us? The non-sick people of America would gladly follow her lead.


24 posted on 06/24/2009 10:01:55 PM PDT by Enoughofthissocialism (Virtue is its own reward and vice is its own punishment .)
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To: rabscuttle385
full of democrats like mccain

Yeah, a shame the way they helped elect Reagan...

25 posted on 06/24/2009 10:03:19 PM PDT by mc6809e
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To: rabscuttle385

Here’s a clue.

It hasn’t been done by either side in decades.

Are you ready?

Try actually R-E-P-R-E-S-E-N-T-I-N-G Americans instead of giving them the shaft.

Your puny little tent will become a colossal stadium.


26 posted on 06/24/2009 10:04:45 PM PDT by Califreak (Dissident under duress)
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To: Enoughofthissocialism

Can Sarah Palin start the new party up for us? The non-sick people of America would gladly follow her lead.
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We can >join< her, not >follow< her. We must let her lead the way and support her. Then, the movement will follow.


27 posted on 06/24/2009 10:07:06 PM PDT by unkus
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To: wardaddy

wake me when it’s over


I’m getting to that point. I’m damded sick of it all.


28 posted on 06/24/2009 10:08:24 PM PDT by unkus
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To: byteback

Well said!


29 posted on 06/24/2009 10:14:11 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: Enoughofthissocialism
The non-sick people of America would gladly follow her lead.

That's the problem with America. We have too many followers.

No thanks to a new party. It's good for a protest vote, but nothing more. I'll stay here, lead by example, and work on fixing MY party, the GOP.

30 posted on 06/24/2009 10:14:48 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We do what we have to do.)
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To: unkus

really...someone explain to me how we get enough blacks and mexicans to be “conservative”

are we camp counselors now?

Tony Robbins?

Preachers?

we need to get more socially conservatives peckerwoods off their fat arses and to the polling booth...around 58% ought to do


31 posted on 06/24/2009 10:15:02 PM PDT by wardaddy (Proudly Anti-Abortion, not and will never be Pro-Life)
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To: rabscuttle385


Show me some love, fellas!
32 posted on 06/24/2009 10:17:56 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
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To: Kozak

How true. You don’t go out to round up people into your party.

No one will ever agree with everything in a party.

What you do is focus on a set of principles and values that will make our country free, prosperous, strong, safe and where everyone will have the opportunity to be the best they can be, not hindered, held back or penalized by government.

You then won’t need to go and try to pull in people to your party, they will just naturally come by themselves, be energized and proud to be members.


33 posted on 06/24/2009 10:31:01 PM PDT by GivemeaBREAK! (Hey Michelle, for the 1st time in my life I'm not proud of my country! Thx a few trillion.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Spare me the big tent BS!


34 posted on 06/24/2009 10:35:12 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: rabscuttle385

No. Inclusion is not the key. Persuading people you are right is the key. That means that philosophical clarity and the courage of your convictions are key. No one was ever persuaded by someone who could not firmly and clearly and forthrightly articulate why he was right.

If you are a “moderate”, if you don’t believe in your principles enough to defend them and advance them, then you are not going to win many battles. Broadening your tent to include more people who don’t know what they believe or why they believe it isn’t going to gain you anything. You broaden your tent by convincing people.


35 posted on 06/24/2009 10:36:43 PM PDT by marron
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To: marron

“No. Inclusion is not the key. Persuading people you are right is the key.”

Worth repeating!


36 posted on 06/24/2009 10:49:42 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: rabscuttle385

They are about to lose my support. They must still figure I don’t have any other place to go.


37 posted on 06/24/2009 11:05:08 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: unkus
Leadership is not pandering to the people. It’s about being principled and getting people to see that you are right. Right, and that’s why the RINO’s won’t gain any ground. We’re in for CHAOS . Things are falling apart and they’re grasping at threads.

You are right.

38 posted on 06/25/2009 12:44:14 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: Kozak

“Unless they have a Big Idea to act as a tent pole they got nothing. Being the “me too only slower” Socialist party is not going to cut it”

Agree, but if it is to be a big tent it will need more than one pole. Should be a center pole of security and two end poles of personal and economic freedom. The tent should be big enough for all who seek refuge.


39 posted on 06/25/2009 12:49:33 AM PDT by Peter Horry (Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded - John Randolph)
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To: rockinqsranch

I do believe W rode into the White House on big donations from big donors, which was right after the Democrats had had two terms in office.


40 posted on 06/25/2009 12:53:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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