Haley Barbour: Tea Party must stick with GOP (Barbour says vote GOP or else)

CBS News ^ | 2011-06-17

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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."

[Diogenesis]

Mitt RomneyCARE (D, Shapeshifter): "I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Backstabber Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

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Romney (Carpetbagger shapeshifter, D, RINO): ”I'm very clear I think, to the people across the Commonwealth
my "R" didn't stand so much for Republican as it does for reform."
(Flip-flop chameleon artiste and Mitt RomneyCARE
Video, accessed 9/19/07)

"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
 which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
--  President Ronald Reagan

[submarinerswife]

I just hope the Tea Partiers stay leaderless and truly grassroots.

[submarinerswife]

I think the problem lies with the Republican establishment who chooses who our primary candidates will be.

Dee Dee Scazzafava was a great example of what I am talking about.

We have no power when it comes to who they choose to support.

[patriot preacher]

I should think it’s the other way around. The Republicans had better stick with the Tea Party. The RNC doesn’t recognize who’s in the drivers seat now. After last November, they should have awakened — but no. If they don’t rouse to the reality, they’ll get a RUDE awakening soon enough — and the fault will lie at their feet, not the Tea Party.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I can indeed.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2736252/posts

[ImpBill]

I read the replies and many if not all of them agree in principle with our position. Once the nominee, from the very flawed GOP process, is chosen we will see push by many to get votes out for the RINO or else messages.

Thanks for the ping!

[Mr. Jeeves]

These idiots are gonna make me vote for Obama if they keep this crap up.

I've said before, the best way for conservatives to make a difference is to all register and vote Democrat, then demand their own part of the established spoils system. We have a one-party state, anyway - why vote for the Washington Generals of politics when you can back the Harlem Globetrotters and make them do more of your bidding than the Generals ever could? :)

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Got news for Haley, the GOP better get right with us or the GOP will be history. THEY WORK FOR US!

[bmwcyle]

Perry, Newt, Trump, or Romney are not going to save you. Don’t be fooled like so many here at the FR.

[ngat]

Isn’t the question really, if a conservative is nominated, will the establishment go third party, or will they get behind the nominee?

[Graybeard58]

If Romney wins the nomination, I will vote for him.

Many, many conservatives will not, I proudly count myself among them.

[Sir Beowolf]

A personal response has went out to Romney, He is the best person to run againist Obama.In the Democratic Primary of course.Mitt and Lindsey would make a good a great team.

[SaraJohnson]

Yes! Halely had best warn the Rinos to stick with the constitutional ideals and agenda of the majority of the GOP voters as embodied by the tea party’s rise against total power demonstrated in Obamacare and TSA and swear off the corrpution that was demonstrated in the union, bankster and corporate bailouts.

The GOP needs to unload the agenda of international socialism and it’s open border invasion and it’s police state as represented by Romney if they want to beat Obama.

[ElPatriota]

OOOhhh... these pictures are worth a "million words" :) I must "borrow" them.

And you know, there is a reason for this scum bags to be laughing it up!... This is a great country no doubt about it for them...

The imbeciles voters keep voting for them regardless... because WE bought that it IS, somehow "our duty" to vote for the "GOP."

Am I afraid... we, the idiots, are getting too smart for this kind of thing...

[hellbender]

He was relatively conservative as governor of Missouri, because it’s a conservative state.

I wonder if that isn't the case with Perry also. When a state becomes reliably conservative, the door is open for poseurs like McCain, Lindsay Graham, etc. to become entrenched incumbents and move to the left. When a conservative is elected from a state where "conservatives" or Republicans are not shoo-ins, like Reagan in CA, Palin in AK, or Bachmann in MN, you know the candidate has principles.

[Eagle Eye]

Haley isn’t even offering KY or a promise to call in the morning?

[bodfish]

Did they learn the same lesson once from our American dictator FDR? For a decade he wouldnt admit defeat at trying to manage every aspect of American life?

[tennmountainman]

Got that right! Why is it that the GOP establishment always wants conservatives to be the one giving in.

For decades we held our nose and voted their way.
We we gave them all 3 branches of Government, they spent like the democrats.

No more giving in to the RINO’s.

[greeneyes]

Hey Haley, better give the tea party what they want. The people have been waiting since Reagan to have a “real” conservative. It’s their turn, and if the GOP establishment blocks it or steals it - Get ready for the consequences.

[avacado]

"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."

That's exactly my thinking also. If Romeny wins the nominee I just may vote for Obama.