Anti Federalist
06-18-2011, 12:59 AM
Upshot:
"You ain't gonna like who 'we' pick to run for president, so get used to it and shut up."
Ummm, no Haley. In fact, Fuck No.
You can pull that flim flammery all you want, but get something through your fat head, for me, this is not about "getting rid of Obama".
O-bomb-ya is "out Bushing" Bush, FFS.
This is about freedom and liberty and what kind of world I leave for my children.
I could give a flying fuck at a rolling donut about your inner party machinations.
I'm voting Ron Paul 2012 regardless of what happens.
Haley Barbour, party man
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57222.html
NEW ORLEANS — Haley Barbour used about a third of his speech before the Republican Leadership Conference to implore the conservative activists gathered here to rally behind the party’s eventual presidential nominee and to accept that the candidate will be imperfect.
It was an illustration of why Barbour was such an effective RNC chairman and why he may have had difficulty running for president at a moment when the GOP base isn’t in the mood for compromise and pragmatism.
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Without endorsing any candidate – he told reporters later he wouldn’t do so anytime soon – Barbour effectively dismissed the possibility that one of the more doctrinaire conservatives would be the party’s nominee.
“We’re going to nominate far and away the best candidate, gonna be ten times better than Obama, but don’t get hung up on purity,” said Barbour, drawing momentary silence and then a modest ovation.
The Mississippi governor repeatedly braced the crowd for a candidate who “won’t be perfect,” but he urged them to accept impurity in the name of victory.
“In this business, it’s unity that wins elections,” he said, recalling his 40-plus years working in Republican politics.
Barbour also implicitly urged party activists to avoid flamboyant personal attacks on President Obama and focus their message exclusively on fiscal policy.
“If we keep this election about those policies and let the American people compare what we propose to the failed policies of the Obama administration, we’ll win,” he said after ticking off a taxes-spending-regulation litany. “But if we let people in the Obama campaign, take America’s eye off the ball, then that’s their only chance.
Talking to reporters after his speech, Barbour was even more insistent that the attendees here must accept some degree of compromise and tell others in the party to do the same.
“These are party leaders, these are party leaders who need to go back to their counties, their parishes, their communities, their clubs, whatever, and start making people focus on the reality – and the reality is that we’re going to nominate somebody with whom not everybody agrees on everything,” he said.
He also reiterated his vision for a Romney-like campaign – without mentioning any candidate’s name – that was entirely about the economy and light on social issues.
“We’re going to run a campaign that is about the incumbent’s record and about the economy and jobs,” predicted the Mississippian. “And that that’s going to be a successful campaign if we all stick together. And if we don’t it’s much, much harder.”
"You ain't gonna like who 'we' pick to run for president, so get used to it and shut up."
Ummm, no Haley. In fact, Fuck No.
You can pull that flim flammery all you want, but get something through your fat head, for me, this is not about "getting rid of Obama".
O-bomb-ya is "out Bushing" Bush, FFS.
This is about freedom and liberty and what kind of world I leave for my children.
I could give a flying fuck at a rolling donut about your inner party machinations.
I'm voting Ron Paul 2012 regardless of what happens.
Haley Barbour, party man
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57222.html
NEW ORLEANS — Haley Barbour used about a third of his speech before the Republican Leadership Conference to implore the conservative activists gathered here to rally behind the party’s eventual presidential nominee and to accept that the candidate will be imperfect.
It was an illustration of why Barbour was such an effective RNC chairman and why he may have had difficulty running for president at a moment when the GOP base isn’t in the mood for compromise and pragmatism.
Continue Reading
Without endorsing any candidate – he told reporters later he wouldn’t do so anytime soon – Barbour effectively dismissed the possibility that one of the more doctrinaire conservatives would be the party’s nominee.
“We’re going to nominate far and away the best candidate, gonna be ten times better than Obama, but don’t get hung up on purity,” said Barbour, drawing momentary silence and then a modest ovation.
The Mississippi governor repeatedly braced the crowd for a candidate who “won’t be perfect,” but he urged them to accept impurity in the name of victory.
“In this business, it’s unity that wins elections,” he said, recalling his 40-plus years working in Republican politics.
Barbour also implicitly urged party activists to avoid flamboyant personal attacks on President Obama and focus their message exclusively on fiscal policy.
“If we keep this election about those policies and let the American people compare what we propose to the failed policies of the Obama administration, we’ll win,” he said after ticking off a taxes-spending-regulation litany. “But if we let people in the Obama campaign, take America’s eye off the ball, then that’s their only chance.
Talking to reporters after his speech, Barbour was even more insistent that the attendees here must accept some degree of compromise and tell others in the party to do the same.
“These are party leaders, these are party leaders who need to go back to their counties, their parishes, their communities, their clubs, whatever, and start making people focus on the reality – and the reality is that we’re going to nominate somebody with whom not everybody agrees on everything,” he said.
He also reiterated his vision for a Romney-like campaign – without mentioning any candidate’s name – that was entirely about the economy and light on social issues.
“We’re going to run a campaign that is about the incumbent’s record and about the economy and jobs,” predicted the Mississippian. “And that that’s going to be a successful campaign if we all stick together. And if we don’t it’s much, much harder.”