Show me some love, fellas!
Posted on 06/24/2009 9:19:20 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
BEDFORD – The Republican party needs to rebuild itself from the bottom up, said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour last night before addressing a gathering at a New Hampshire State Republican Committee reception.
"You're in the White House for eight or 12 years, you become a top-down party, I don't care if these are Republicans or Democrats.
When you get out, you're liberated to rebuild your party from the bottom up," he told reporters before a reception at at C.R. Sparks, which was closed to the press.
Barbour assumed chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association yesterday, following South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's resignation from the post. Sanford announced his resignation during a press conference, after admitting to an extramarital affair that took him to Argentina last week.
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le tent est grande.
And full of Democrats like McCain.
The Republican Party left me. They’re going to have to earn my return. Proof is in the pooding.
Mississippy Guv ping #2
How about being a constitutionalist and conservative party, like your platform says you are SUPPOSED to be.
Unless they have a Big Idea to act as a tent pole they got nothing. Being the “me too only slower” Socialist party is not going to cut it.
“How about being a constitutionalist and conservative party, like your platform says you are SUPPOSED to be.”
Ha. That “big tent” belonging to the idiot class that runs the GOP only opens to the Left.
Leadership is not pandering to the people. It’s about being principled and getting people to see that you are right.
Ah, yes, Barbour wants us to be more inclusive — i.e., water down our principles so they encompass more people.
The flaw in that thinking, of course, is that as they attract more people who like the watered down principles, they repel those of us who liked the original principles.
I wonder how long until a republican gets the idea to convince people that the Founding principles are right (instead of chasing their tails trying to adapt principles to each person and situation)?
The term “inclusive” is code for Republican light with a bid tent for gays, lesbians, transgenders, amnesty for illegal. Mr. Barbour go pound sand, we just lost an election with a big tent candidate
Leadership is not pandering to the people. It’s about being principled and getting people to see that you are right.
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Right, and that’s why the RINO’s won’t gain any ground.
We’re in for CHAOS . Things are falling apart and they’re grasping at threads.
“The Republican party needs to rebuild itself from the bottom up, said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour...”
“You’re in the White House for eight or 12 years, you become a top-down party, I don’t care if these are Republicans or Democrats.”
“When you get out, you’re liberated to rebuild your party from the bottom up,”
So basically he’s saying that when one or the other Party is in, it isn’t in their interests to maintain control of themselves, so they lose it? Does that pretty much sum up what he is saying?
I always liked Haley Barbour, but those statements are asinine IMO.
“When republicans stopped behaving like republicans, they started losing.”
I can’t quite remember what Haley Barbour was doing back then, from 1989 to 1992
WRONG Gov. Barbour! They USED to be a big party WHEN THEY WERE CONSERVATIVES!
wake me when it’s over
I heard Barbour speak in my state, and this is talking about the same stuff here as he did here. He's a state's rights guy and believes in leaving those issues to the states. Besides that, its general less government.
The hypocracy cost us in 2006 and also in 2008 when leadership failed to heed its 2006 lessons.
Barbour was the original “Big Tenter” and was partially responsible for the Bob Dole debacle of 1996(I was there).
Can we just leave the ReDUMBlican party behind and start over. I am soooooooo sick of these RINO lib dirtbags.
Can Sarah Palin start the new party up for us? The non-sick people of America would gladly follow her lead.
Yeah, a shame the way they helped elect Reagan...
Here’s a clue.
It hasn’t been done by either side in decades.
Are you ready?
Try actually R-E-P-R-E-S-E-N-T-I-N-G Americans instead of giving them the shaft.
Your puny little tent will become a colossal stadium.
Can Sarah Palin start the new party up for us? The non-sick people of America would gladly follow her lead.
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We can >join< her, not >follow< her. We must let her lead the way and support her. Then, the movement will follow.
wake me when it’s over
I’m getting to that point. I’m damded sick of it all.
Well said!
That's the problem with America. We have too many followers.
No thanks to a new party. It's good for a protest vote, but nothing more. I'll stay here, lead by example, and work on fixing MY party, the GOP.
really...someone explain to me how we get enough blacks and mexicans to be “conservative”
are we camp counselors now?
Tony Robbins?
Preachers?
we need to get more socially conservatives peckerwoods off their fat arses and to the polling booth...around 58% ought to do
How true. You don’t go out to round up people into your party.
No one will ever agree with everything in a party.
What you do is focus on a set of principles and values that will make our country free, prosperous, strong, safe and where everyone will have the opportunity to be the best they can be, not hindered, held back or penalized by government.
You then won’t need to go and try to pull in people to your party, they will just naturally come by themselves, be energized and proud to be members.
Spare me the big tent BS!
No. Inclusion is not the key. Persuading people you are right is the key. That means that philosophical clarity and the courage of your convictions are key. No one was ever persuaded by someone who could not firmly and clearly and forthrightly articulate why he was right.
If you are a “moderate”, if you don’t believe in your principles enough to defend them and advance them, then you are not going to win many battles. Broadening your tent to include more people who don’t know what they believe or why they believe it isn’t going to gain you anything. You broaden your tent by convincing people.
“No. Inclusion is not the key. Persuading people you are right is the key.”
Worth repeating!
They are about to lose my support. They must still figure I don’t have any other place to go.
You are right.
“Unless they have a Big Idea to act as a tent pole they got nothing. Being the “me too only slower” Socialist party is not going to cut it”
Agree, but if it is to be a big tent it will need more than one pole. Should be a center pole of security and two end poles of personal and economic freedom. The tent should be big enough for all who seek refuge.
I do believe W rode into the White House on big donations from big donors, which was right after the Democrats had had two terms in office.
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Palin appeals to conservatives... Perhaps 30% of the total populace. She does NOT get lib votes, and does NOT get many indie votes... She needs the indies to even entertain a shot at a Presidency... She’ll never compete seriously... Great person, great policies, great leader... No shot at POTUS
“The term “inclusive” is code for Republican light with a bid tent for gays, lesbians, transgenders, amnesty for illegal. Mr. Barbour go pound sand, we just lost an election with a big tent candidate”
That’s exactly what the Republican Party does NOT need. It was rugged individualism that put it in power last time and that’s what the American people are looking for.
some are giving the impression that those Eminent Domain rules expire at some point and then there will be stronger protection ... is that not the case?
You've got that right. I have no objection to a big tent party......assuming that it means what it did when Reagan said it - the moderates and conservative Democrats are welcome to join us when they come around to our way of thinking. We do not give up our principals just to increase numbers.
Yeah, Sarah’s got no chance. That’s why nobody turns out to see her. LOL! Just like Ronald Reagan. Big loser in the presidential race. (...if you ighnore that they were the biggest landslides in American history.)
Thanks for the New York point of view. Sooooo in touch with REAL America.
Next time: thanks but no thanks.
Mississippy Guv bump!
Well, I must say he has that White, Pudgy-Country Club- Middle Age look down pat. I would opt for an exotic: Daniel Henney or Denis O’Neil to take center stage./Just Asking - seoul62......
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