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Haley Barbour: Ideological purity is the ‘enemy of victory’
The swashington Times ^ | 5-30-2014 | Seth McLaughlin

Posted on 05/30/2014 3:13:15 PM PDT by INVAR

NEW ORLEANS — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour warned Friday that ideological purity is the “enemy of victory” and that the GOP must broaden the Republican coalition to win elections and to enact conservative policies that will change the direction of the nation.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barbour; enemy; gop; purity; victory
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Mark Levin going berserk on this one. New Rulign Class GOP-e bumper sticker.

I say they can suck it and try to win without Conservatives.

Of course this is why they want Amnesty.

1 posted on 05/30/2014 3:13:15 PM PDT by INVAR
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To: INVAR

No amnesty!!


3 posted on 05/30/2014 3:14:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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4 posted on 05/30/2014 3:15:22 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: INVAR

The perfect is the enemy of the good is an aphorism or proverb meaning that insisting on perfection often results in no improvement at all. The phrase is commonly attributed to Voltaire whose moral poem, La Bégueule, starts[1]

“Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien
Dit que le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.

(In his writings, a wise Italian
says that the best is the enemy of the good)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

You didn’t build that!


5 posted on 05/30/2014 3:16:00 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: INVAR

One after another of them have been bought and paid for. It’s not fashionable to work for your constituents anymore. They’d rather rake in the millions from their corporate masters.

They’re just liberals who don’t like paying taxes.


6 posted on 05/30/2014 3:16:41 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: INVAR
Shamnesty and LGBT are losers.

Big grubment losers can ESAD.

7 posted on 05/30/2014 3:16:44 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: INVAR
Republicans lose when they run liberal candidates at the national level.

I hope to see the day when running as a liberal republican is the political kiss of death.

I'm doing everything I can to make that happen.

/johnny

8 posted on 05/30/2014 3:17:06 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: TurboZamboni

#WAR


9 posted on 05/30/2014 3:17:09 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: headstamp 2

They’re just liberals who don’t like paying taxes.

Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner.

10 posted on 05/30/2014 3:18:32 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: INVAR

Dear Haley: Bite me.


11 posted on 05/30/2014 3:19:23 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: INVAR

What Barbour is admitting to all, is that principles suck - and that we must compromise our principles with the Left to win elections and those Conservatives that stick to principles and refuse to surrender them, are an “enemy” to GOP victory.

So be it.

Barbour just reiterated the war that Mitch McConnell declared, just in different language.


12 posted on 05/30/2014 3:19:39 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

Who’s “victory” is he talking about? Certainly not mine!


13 posted on 05/30/2014 3:19:57 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: INVAR

Sorry, you lying #*$&@.

We’ve heard this crap before, many times, and every time the GOP moves further to the left and does not implement anything of a Conservative nature.

Get lost you Liar Haley!


14 posted on 05/30/2014 3:19:59 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: INVAR

What about Americans who are not Republicans?

And don’t care whether Republicans are elected — when the Republicans are only a Democrat Party Lite.


15 posted on 05/30/2014 3:20:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: INVAR

Haley is one of those “malaise Republicans”


16 posted on 05/30/2014 3:21:21 PM PDT by RatRipper (The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
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Barbour, as well as the rest of the GOP establishment, has no clue as to how to advance the conservative agenda.

Instead, what we have here is immediate capitulation, groveling and apologizing for being conservative, and accepting the Left's narrative and premise.

You lay out conservative principles, people will wise up and see that you are correct and join your side. This is why the Left always whine that Republicans are "too far to the right"...if true then why not just let Republicans be the fire-breathing conservatives that they are perceived to be and they'll lose, right?

No, because the Left KNOWS that conservatism works and is a winner everywhere it's been tried. Hence the narrative that the GOP needs to "move to the middle," or some other bovine feces.

It's not ideological purity at all, it's called beliefs and principles and conservative principles simply aren't up for debate or to be compromised with.

17 posted on 05/30/2014 3:21:51 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: INVAR

Never liked Barbour, but there were some here who were pushing him as a conservative candidate back in 2007 or 2008.


18 posted on 05/30/2014 3:22:03 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lil Flower; Din Maker; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; jdirt; ...

Barbour ping.


19 posted on 05/30/2014 3:23:07 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: VRWC For Truth

No damned amnesty and 1 man with 1 woman = marriage. That’s it. And stop the baby killing. Other than those three absolutes— let’s talk Haley. By the way you are way too fat.


20 posted on 05/30/2014 3:23:22 PM PDT by SADMILLIE
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