Posted on 06/18/2011 8:00:35 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
From dynamic presidential hopefuls such as Rep. Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain to rank-and-file party activists from across the country, Republicans who gathered in New Orleans Friday all pledged their fealty to the cause of defeating President Barack Obama in 2012.
But Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former national party chairman, delivered a stern warning to Republican Leadership Conference delegates: Don't look for perfection in the potential nominees and don't even think about drafting a third-party candidate when the nomination fight is done.
"Don't get hung up on purity," he said. "In politics, purity is a loser. ... In this business, it is unity that wins elections. ... Barack Obama has worn out three sets of knee pads down his knees praying for the tea party to become a third party, because he can't lose."
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Barbour misses the point ‘It’s the future, stupid’. It is time for ending control by country club money Republicans and starting a party for the ignored working middle class.
A new party that does not put money before country by exporting jobs. A new party that is pro-marriage and pro-life from beginning to end. A new party that asks not what can you do for the world but what can you do for our country.
Losing isn’t the worst thing, not getting started, is.
” starting a party for the ignored working middle class “
That shouldn’t be too difficult - the way things are going, soon you’ll be able to fit the whole ‘working middle class’ into a single room...
A small single room....
This tea partier urges Haley Barbour not to let the Republican Party become a third party.
‘A third party is a complete waste of time.’
The waste of time is pushing the liberal lite agenda. My vote this time around is reserved solely for the candidate that campaigns for it. Party affiliation isn’t a consideration.
He is 100 percent correct when he says “ONCE THE NOMINATION FIGHT IS DONE”. If we can’t get our TeaParty guy or gal nominated then trying a third party is a definite loser PERIOD! I think we all get it Mr. Barbour! What you don’t seem to understand Mr. Barbour is that your GOP good ol’ boy has no chance to win the Nomination. We hope you play by your own rules once our canidate is nominated!
Reality is hard for some to swallow, that truthfully, the electorate is the problem, not some small group like you proclaim.
The problem in ‘08 was, too many hard-core, do-or-die, fall-on-their-words, fringe populists who refused to bend on even the smallest of issues. The result was a highly fragmented conservative base, spread widely over several candidates. That is how the moderates and independents managed to elect McCain in the primaries. McCain could never have won with the percentage of votes he received with out that fragmented base scattered all about.
The same thing is about to happen this time around. Yet this insane notion that the rest of the voting public would not dare go against the 20% fringe, so angrily demanding their way, or else!, continues on without a second thought.
This is easy.
Either the GOP becomes the de facto Tea Party or the GOP goes away and the Tea Party becomes the other major political party in the U.S.
That is all.
In 2010 the establishment GOP had no campaign or message for the mid-terms. If it wasn’t for the Tea Party, the GOP wouldn’t have the House. Also, they went along kicking and screaming all the way when their establishment RINOs went down. They were only too happy to blame the Tea Party for it instead of looking in the mirror.
Then they promptly gave in to Barry at the tail end of last year like the bunch of losers they were.
Oooh, breaking out the “fringe” this early, are we?
“Nativist xenophobe” and “you just hate brown people” can’t be far behind.
Such a winning strategy.
The Whigs disintergrated after 1856 because they refused to take a national position on the extension of slavery.
Once a party refuses to address the most significant issue of the day...in our case a 14 trillion $ debt...then there is no longer a need for that party.
It’s up to the GOP.
So, how is “Presidents” Buchannan, Keyes and Paul working out for you? (Since you mentioned a “winning strategy”.)
Disagree. That very division might precipitate a 3rd party, and a strong one at that.
Barbour, Conservative credentials and all, is a Washington insider, having been a Lobbyist and RNC chair prior to being Governor. His priority is to his party first.
Even in conditions such as these, a 3rd party is a long shot. But, members of the Tea Party must keep it available as an option, if for nothing else as a bargaining chip against a Romney, Huntsman or Pawlenty nomination.
RINO elitist, establishment Republicans need to recognize that they are, in fact, Democrat Socialists Lite and, just as the socialist policies of the Democrats failed, their policies failed with them. Their ways have been discredited and CLEARLY shown to be false.
They should follow the lead of the Tea Party VALUES. This is not about getting Republicans elected. It is about returning to the values and ethics that made this country great so that we can save our country.
“A 3rd party is a complete waste of time.”
Just think how great it would be to have only one party. We would always win...
Naw, he don't miss the point...None of them miss the point...They're all globalist, one world gov't hacks...
They're scared to death we are going to elect someone who isn't one of them...
Does anyone remember when Alan Keyes ran against Obama in Chicago??? These same Republican globalists refused to support Republican Keyes against Obama...
The debt is just a symptom.
The central moral questions of our day have to with the continued daily butchering of thousands of little children and the abandonment of the natural family and natural marriage to the sodomites.
Get our moral house in order and the money problems will be relatively easy to fix.
Ignore the moral component and the financial destruction of the republic is certain.
Well, that's pretty much what the Democrat/Republicans have created. They're nothing more now than two legs on one socialist beast.
Many have tried it. It is Satlin’s greatest selling point, as he starved to death tens of millions in order to make his five year ag plan a success andthe Soviets exporters of grain! You have real roots, baby.
Dear Haley,
I have some news for you. There’s purity and then there’s total slime. I’m registered GOP but will never in a million years vote for that lying, slimy used-car salesman weasel Romney if he gets the GOP nomination.
In fact, I’m starting to think that I’m inclined to vote for Obama if Romney is nominated. Obama purposefully put us in this economic mess with his rampant and deliberately destructive socialism, as well as all of his other deliberately destructive policies, so I say let Obama finish the job! Let him and his damned Socialist Democrat party own their legacy of destruction forever. Let the people of this country make no mistake about what Democrats are all about and what they really do when they rule. Let there be no excuses!
Because if Romney is elected instead, the country is still going to go down in flames, but the climax of destruction will occur on Romney’s watch, allowing the Marxist media swine to convince the naïve public that it’s all the Republicans’ fault.
However, if Obama were to be re-elected, then in future elections (at least a generation or two), the choices should be clear based on the utter destruction wrought by eight years of Obama and the Socialist Democrats. Hopefully after eight years of economic devastation our people would have learned their lessons and would choose prosperity over tyranny, at least for a while longer.
And what if the people want even more of the Socialist Democrats after eight years of terror and destruction? Then unfortunately for we who work and think and know better, the majority will deserve the government they select. But what about you and I, you say? Well, it would be a good time to start a new country within this country, I think. It would be time to select a few good states and migrate there en masse and take them over at the ballot box. It would be time to go Galt.
Many have tried it. It is Stalin’s greatest selling point, as he starved to death tens of millions in order to make his five year ag plan a success and the Soviets exporters of grain! You have real roots, baby.
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