[rabscuttle385]

fyi

[exist]

At least Barbour didn't call people who want Obama to fail idiots.

[WKB]

Mississippy Guv ping #2

[pissant]

How about being a constitutionalist and conservative party, like your platform says you are SUPPOSED to be.

[mrsixpack36]

The Governor has got to realize-— When republicans stopped behaving like republicans, they started losing. At the same point, Dems starting acting like Dems and they starting winning. Catch a pattern here?? Rebuilding from CONSERVATIVE values while focusing on the youth vote and Internet is going to be the only way to rebuild the republican party. Youth are embarrassed to claim they are republican...WHY??? We need to work on making conservative values the "in and cool thing" Then we will succeed. The big tent myth is just that, and the dems figured it out sooner than the GOP.

[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.

[byteback]

Leadership is not pandering to the people. It’s about being principled and getting people to see that you are right.

[Steelfish]

The term “inclusive” is code for Republican light with a bid tent for gays, lesbians, transgenders, amnesty for illegal. Mr. Barbour go pound sand, we just lost an election with a big tent candidate

[rockinqsranch]

“The Republican party needs to rebuild itself from the bottom up, said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour...”

“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,”

So basically he’s saying that when one or the other Party is in, it isn’t in their interests to maintain control of themselves, so they lose it? Does that pretty much sum up what he is saying?

I always liked Haley Barbour, but those statements are asinine IMO.

[counterpunch]

Seriously, with 0bama and the Democrats stinking up the place, all Republicans have to do is be normal.
Why are they having such a hard time with that?
 

[patriot preacher]

WRONG Gov. Barbour! They USED to be a big party WHEN THEY WERE CONSERVATIVES!

[Darren McCarty]

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.

[US Navy Vet]

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

[Califreak]

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.

[campaignPete R-CT]

Show me some love, fellas!

[smokingfrog]

Spare me the big tent BS!

[marron]

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.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

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

[LibLieSlayer]

Haley had better tack away from this liberal movement in the repubic party. He is my governor but that buys him nothing. I have had worries about him lately... he and Cochran seem to be becoming ted kennedy.

LLS