Tell that to the legions of nitpickers who attack Pawlenty, Palin, and even Herman Cain.
Barbour is exactly right: Ronald Reagan isn't walking through that door, and even the Gipper wasn't perfect.
Considering the quality of people involved with state & national politics, I'm willing to live with anyone halfway decent.
When I say I don’t expect “purity” (that’s why I put in in quotation marks, BTW), I mean I don’t expect any candidate to hold exactly the same position I hold on every issue. Period, paragraph.
But that in no way implies I’ll vote for any yahoo who thinks he/she’s qualified, like the Pawlentys, Giulanis, Pauls and Romneys of this world. I expect them to be conservative, and I expect them to win through the primary process. But I don’t, after all is said and done, expect to be in lock-step with the winner.
And that’s NOT “purity”.
He’s right if he’s talking about someone other than Rudy, Mit, or Newt, or Rhino #4, #5, etc.