Optimistic GOP Governors Want a Kinder, Gentler Approach to 2010

Politics Daily ^ | Nov. 20, 2009 | Melinda Henneberger

[Dajjal]

AUSTIN – Here's what I did not hear at the annual confab of Republican governors held here this week: The words socialist, extremist, or government takeover. With the focus on jobs, jobs and jobs, the only red meat was the Texas barbecue. And by design, there was no Obama-bashing.

[snip]

Barbour cautioned Republican candidates to refrain from attacking the president, period: "People want the president to succeed; good Lord, they want the country to succeed, and particularly the first African-American president has a lot of goodwill. . . . We need to be careful, we need to treat the president respectfully, we need to make this about policies, not personal. . . . This is a guy people like.''

[novemberslady]

Some folks were pushing barbour for president.
I want someone with a spine...

[Spunky]

So this is Haley Barbour.

[Sequoyah101]

RNC, not a dime
Spinate republican fund, not a dime
congress republican fund, not a dime

Funding individual candidates only from here on out.

The thundering hoofbeats are Rhinos stampeding.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

What dickhead wants the presbo to succeed?If “he” succeeds we as America will fail.These people are like toilets and need to be flushed often and for the same reason.

[Cobra64]

Bullshit. These people's colon/rectal exams should be administered with a cattle prod.

It might spark some common sense.

[tflabo]

Kinder.... gentler... are they for real? This is not the time for daddy Bush niceties. This is WAR.....fighting war on the traitorous leftists from hades. no more compromise-—defeat their jack asses.

[sentient]

bull crap.... this SOB is a socialist and needs to be called out... haley needs to stuff another twinkie in his pie hole.....

[freedomfiter2]

Isn’t this the same approach that put Obama in the white house in the first place?

[Texas Eagle]

This “New Tone” is getting really, really OLD!!!

Amen, bro. I've been "New Tone" deaf almost from the first moment I heard the stupid phrase.

[Lancey Howard]

I am sick up to here with these cowardly “honorable” campaigns where one candidate (R) observes Marquess of Queensberry rules while the other candidate (the rat) kicks his balls in. Take a hike, Haley. Ubama is a sick p.o.s. who hates America and the capitalist system that made it great, hates whitey, hates the military, and hates the traditional American family structure. Just say it.

[EternalVigilance]

[MBB1984]

Time to form the Conservative Party.

[Major Matt Mason]

Barbour might be playing coy politics here, but he is still wrong. Obama does not want the same things that most Americans want. He is a socialist, at best, and not a very accomplished one at that. If Obama succeeds, the country as we know it goes down the tubes. So no, Haley, we don't want him to succeed, not should you.

[jnsun]

And how many on FR blast a conservative third party?

[Dajjal]

Barbour cautioned Republican candidates to refrain from attacking the president, period: "People want the president to succeed; good Lord, they want the country to succeed, and particularly the first African-American president has a lot of goodwill. . . . We need to be careful, we need to treat the president respectfully, we need to make this about policies, not personal. . . . This is a guy people like.''

RINO ping

[Windflier]

"...the first African-American president has a lot of goodwill. . . . We need to be careful, we need to treat the president respectfully, we need to make this about policies, not personal. . . . This is a guy people like."

Governor Haley Barbour

"What's America so wee-weed up about?"

Precedent Barack Obama

[Windflier]

We Had a Good Run, 225 Years, it’s over.

Stuff that defeatist crap. It's not over until The People give up, and they haven't. Not by a long shot.

[eclecticEel]

Nonsense and more nonsense. The ‘rats didn’t get elected by playing nice with Bush, Gingrich didn’t lead the takeover of the House by being nice to Clinton. McCain also didn’t win after his shameful endorsement of Obama weeks before the election. The GOP needs to step up it’s attacks against Obama, along with all other ‘rats - and of course you attack their sick policies, relentlessly.

[jwalsh07]

Yeah, all that Bush Bashing certainly didn't work out very well for the democrats.

Stupid asses.

[mrsmel]

I just hope that this isn’t a foretaste of the next presidential campaign, because if it is, conservatives and America are screwed. Stick a fork in America, she’s done.