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Optimistic GOP Governors Want a Kinder, Gentler Approach to 2010
Politics Daily ^ | Nov. 20, 2009 | Melinda Henneberger

Posted on 11/20/2009 7:11:51 PM PST by Dajjal

AUSTIN – Here's what I did not hear at the annual confab of Republican governors held here this week: The words socialist, extremist, or government takeover. With the focus on jobs, jobs and jobs, the only red meat was the Texas barbecue. And by design, there was no Obama-bashing.

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Barbour cautioned Republican candidates to refrain from attacking the president, period: "People want the president to succeed; good Lord, they want the country to succeed, and particularly the first African-American president has a lot of goodwill. . . . We need to be careful, we need to treat the president respectfully, we need to make this about policies, not personal. . . . This is a guy people like.''

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; barbour; christie; economy; elections; gop; gopcomeback; governors; haleybarbour; healthcare; idiots; mccain; mcdonnell; michaelsteele; moderates; morons; nj2009; obama; republicans; republicrats; rga; rinos; rnc; steele; thestupidparty; va2009
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To: Dajjal
Some folks were pushing barbour for president.
I want someone with a spine...
21 posted on 11/20/2009 7:25:39 PM PST by novemberslady
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To: Dajjal
So this is Haley Barbour.


22 posted on 11/20/2009 7:28:56 PM PST by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: hal ogen

RNC, not a dime
Spinate republican fund, not a dime
congress republican fund, not a dime

Funding individual candidates only from here on out.

The thundering hoofbeats are Rhinos stampeding.


23 posted on 11/20/2009 7:30:07 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: Dajjal

What dickhead wants the presbo to succeed?If “he” succeeds we as America will fail.These people are like toilets and need to be flushed often and for the same reason.


24 posted on 11/20/2009 7:31:25 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Dajjal
Bullshit. These people's colon/rectal exams should be administered with a cattle prod.

It might spark some common sense.

25 posted on 11/20/2009 7:31:31 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Dajjal

Kinder.... gentler... are they for real? This is not the time for daddy Bush niceties. This is WAR.....fighting war on the traitorous leftists from hades. no more compromise-—defeat their jack asses.


26 posted on 11/20/2009 7:31:37 PM PST by tflabo (truth vs. tyranny)
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To: Dajjal

bull crap.... this SOB is a socialist and needs to be called out... haley needs to stuff another twinkie in his pie hole.....


27 posted on 11/20/2009 7:33:52 PM PST by sentient
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To: Dajjal

Isn’t this the same approach that put Obama in the white house in the first place?


28 posted on 11/20/2009 7:35:47 PM PST by freedomfiter2
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
This “New Tone” is getting really, really OLD!!!

Amen, bro. I've been "New Tone" deaf almost from the first moment I heard the stupid phrase.

29 posted on 11/20/2009 7:35:53 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Dajjal

I am sick up to here with these cowardly “honorable” campaigns where one candidate (R) observes Marquess of Queensberry rules while the other candidate (the rat) kicks his balls in. Take a hike, Haley. Ubama is a sick p.o.s. who hates America and the capitalist system that made it great, hates whitey, hates the military, and hates the traditional American family structure. Just say it.


30 posted on 11/20/2009 7:36:12 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Dajjal

31 posted on 11/20/2009 7:37:43 PM PST by EternalVigilance (We're witnessing the slow strangulation death of American republican self-government and liberty.)
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To: Texas Eagle

Time to form the Conservative Party.


32 posted on 11/20/2009 7:37:55 PM PST by MBB1984
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To: Dajjal
Barbour might be playing coy politics here, but he is still wrong. Obama does not want the same things that most Americans want. He is a socialist, at best, and not a very accomplished one at that. If Obama succeeds, the country as we know it goes down the tubes. So no, Haley, we don't want him to succeed, not should you.
33 posted on 11/20/2009 7:38:09 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The DemocRat Party = Enemies of Freedom.)
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To: Dajjal
And how many on FR blast a conservative third party?
34 posted on 11/20/2009 7:38:45 PM PST by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: Pyro7480; narses; NYer; Salvation; AdmSmith; Aquinasfan; Siobhan; Maeve; XR7; SJackson; ...
Barbour cautioned Republican candidates to refrain from attacking the president, period: "People want the president to succeed; good Lord, they want the country to succeed, and particularly the first African-American president has a lot of goodwill. . . . We need to be careful, we need to treat the president respectfully, we need to make this about policies, not personal. . . . This is a guy people like.''

RINO ping

35 posted on 11/20/2009 7:38:49 PM PST by Dajjal (Obama is an Ericksonian NLP hypnotist.)
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To: Dajjal
"...the first African-American president has a lot of goodwill. . . . We need to be careful, we need to treat the president respectfully, we need to make this about policies, not personal. . . . This is a guy people like."

Governor Haley Barbour

"What's America so wee-weed up about?"

Precedent Barack Obama

36 posted on 11/20/2009 7:43:01 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: bravotu
We Had a Good Run, 225 Years, it’s over.

Stuff that defeatist crap. It's not over until The People give up, and they haven't. Not by a long shot.

37 posted on 11/20/2009 7:47:24 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Dajjal

Nonsense and more nonsense. The ‘rats didn’t get elected by playing nice with Bush, Gingrich didn’t lead the takeover of the House by being nice to Clinton. McCain also didn’t win after his shameful endorsement of Obama weeks before the election. The GOP needs to step up it’s attacks against Obama, along with all other ‘rats - and of course you attack their sick policies, relentlessly.


38 posted on 11/20/2009 7:49:02 PM PST by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: Dajjal
Yeah, all that Bush Bashing certainly didn't work out very well for the democrats.

Stupid asses.

39 posted on 11/20/2009 7:50:14 PM PST by jwalsh07 (Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what you can do for Obama.)
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To: Lancey Howard

I just hope that this isn’t a foretaste of the next presidential campaign, because if it is, conservatives and America are screwed. Stick a fork in America, she’s done.


40 posted on 11/20/2009 7:51:00 PM PST by mrsmel
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