Posted on 06/18/2011 8:14:58 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
NEW ORLEANS -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told a crowd of conservative activists at the Republican Leadership Conference Friday that they should not "get hung up on purity" when it comes to the Republican nominee for president.
"In politics, purity is a loser," said Barbour, a well-connected GOP insider who earlier this year decided to forgo a presidential run in 2012.
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Barbour said that this was the first time in his decades in politics that people are regularly telling him that "I'm afraid my children and grandchildren are not going to inherent the same country I inherited."
"Those are the stakes for this election," said Barbour.
That's why, he argued, that the Tea Party cannot effectively serve as a third party, splitting votes on the right.
President Obama "can't lose if we split the conservative vote," Barbour said, adding that "the left is dying for the Tea Party or the whatever party to become a third party."
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Just what I’d expect to hear from a pure RINO.
You make some good points, but the MSM will brainwash the sheeple into believing that the evil repubs caused the damage, regardless.
Who got all of the credit when clintoon was prez and the pubbies owned congress?
Barbour said that this was the first time in his decades in politics that people are regularly telling him that "I'm afraid my children and grandchildren are not going to inherent the same country I inherited."
That seems to be "Cause & Effect" Barbour. Wake up.
I will not vote for Romney. A difference with no distinction is not change. Romney is a smilier Obama, nothing less.
Absolutely right on.
Then work for conservatives and support conservatives, Haley. We are no longer on the GOP reservation.
That's because the GOP never embraced Reaganism. The Bush wing of the GOP pushed the Reaganites out of the party. Barber is facing the wrong direction when he's preaching about unity.
Ping-a-ling to a repeat of yesterday’s post.
The republican party may join us at any time...
I´m a conservative first.
In a contest between Obama and Romney, the choice is do you take the Democrat or the Communist...
RINOs, "softer-kinder-conservatism", weak-kneed conservatives, Constitutional-tinkerers, and flip-floppers are all LOSING party traits. Regan-esque Conservatism wins. Ronaldus Magnus went from being a Dem to a Rep and was a winner. Court Jester Romney is the best Democrat in the race, he is DOA against The Won, and Romney will be a LOSER. The GOP needs to lead from the front, not follow the crowd made up of right-minded Conservatives, TEA Party regulars, and fed-up independents.
Man up and follow the ladies, Haley. They are the only ones, so far, that "get it". Maybe Romney needs a skirt to help gain his elusive credibility.
And so it begins. The mantra that we must follow the GOP boys in their matching belts and shoes “in order to be saved”. Screw that. I had my very last vote extorted that way in ‘08. Not again.
That said, I'd like to let all RINOs know that there are different levels of support.
Tea Partiers are not going to be showing the kind of enthusiasm you've seen for someone they are holding their collective noses to support. There would be pictures of tremendous rallies broadcast across the airwaves. They won't be burning up the phone lines to get out the vote. They won't be lighted up the social networks with their support.
If anyone in the GOP establishment is asking themselves, "Where are they going to go?"
Maybe the answer will be, "How about the movie theaters?"
Who knows, maybe Atlas Shrugged might be playing in some second-run houses, which would be preferable to a two-bit RINO.
In 2010, here in Florida's 5th district, we had a Good Old Boy Sherriff that was hand picked by Queen Duchess Ginny Brown-Waite as our Republican candidate. I strongly supported the TEA Party, constitutionalist republican in the primary. But the Washington establishment spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat him. When it came time for the General election, I left my Congressional Representative line blank. My choices were a democRAT who said he supported Obamacare, though it needed a few tweaks, and a Sherriff who nearly doubled the budget and size of his department in less than 10 years. I want a smaller government, and someone who can make do with less. There was no choice for that.
If the total federal spending as authorized and initially passed by Congress is lower in FY 2012 than it was in FY2010, and if it's lower still in FY 2013, then I might consider supporting this guy for re-election. If Federal spending increases, I'm looking for an alternative that will actually reduce the size of the Federal budget.
I wasn't encouraged when our guy supported the Ryan budget plan, a plan to continue spending more than is collected in revenues for at least 20 more years.
BTW, any Republican who voted for that plan, and then doesn't vote to raise the debt ceiling enough to cover 20+ more years of deficits is a hypocrite.
All the GOP stands for (by their actions) is accumulating power and money for the GOP and their pet projects, and preventing the Dems from accumulating power and money for their pet projects. Until there is action to reduce the size and scope of the Federal government, and to start returning things to within the actual limitations of the United States Constitution, this nation is already lost.
I'm not confident that the GOP can make a difference. The TEA party could, especially by holding the GOP to that smaller government, constitutional agenda. Unfortunately, the GOP establishment and leadership refuses to move in that direction, and wants to fight the TEA party at every opportunity. If the GOP chases away the TEA partiers to a third party, that will hurt the GOP even more. But the TEA partiers need to hold to their principles and tell the GOP, we aren't voting for you because you aren't Democrats, we're voting for our principles. If you don't deliver on those principles, you don't get our vote.
Any chance you could post a link to the previous posting(s) of this?
Colonel_Flagg wrote:
Ping-a-ling to a repeat of yesterday’s post.
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One of those big rivers!
Then they promptly gave in to Barry at the tail end of last year like the bunch of losers they were.
^This.^ ALL of this.
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