Comments on: NO to Barbour’s advice

By: Raymond V Banner

Raymond V Banner — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:21:37 +0000

callmecrusader,

I share your sentiments. The leadership of the Democrat party never allows their pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, culturally radical positions to be compromised. The so-called “big tent” Republicans
have been trying for years to get social conservatives to essentially sell out and give up on their principles.

By: RalphR

RalphR — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:56:55 +0000

This was part of an interview Haley B did in an June 26 Iowa Public T. V. interview.

“Henderson: But Governor there are some in the Republican Party who don’t wish to include people who have, as you labeled, pro-choice views. They don’t want them to be part of the party. They don’t want them to represent the party. What do you say to those folks?

Barbour: I would say that my experience is that every election you have millions of Pro-Choice Republicans voting for Pro-Life Republicans. You have millions of Pro-Life Republicans voting for Pro-Choice Republicans. The best example I can think of, Kay, in my own experience in your neighboring state of Minnesota in 1994 Arnie Carlson was the most liberal Republican Governor in the United States. He was pro-choice, he got challenged in the party convention and lost the convention before he won the primary. Yet in the general election Arnie Carlson had more to do with our electing a Pro-Life Republican Senator in Minnesota than any other person. It was the perfect example of a Pro-Choice Republican leader saying ‘Hey, this guy and I agree on 80% of the things, I’m not going to let the fact that we disagree on abortion keep me from helping him get elected Senator of Minnesota.”

By: Pied Piper

Pied Piper — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:14:21 +0000

I am sick of old men telling us how to do things.

By: Iowans Rock

Iowans Rock — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:38:46 +0000

An interesting topic for Barbour to step into. As far as I know there are no pro-choice Republicans running for Governor………….yet.

By: electtomshaw

electtomshaw — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:34:32 +0000

A big tent, hastily erected, with collapse at the slightest wind.
Principles, in the form of strong poles in which to suppport the tent, must not be compromised.

By: swireader

swireader — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:07:09 +0000

As I read your post, I thought of the gazeble we purchased for our daughter’s wedding. I went to great lengths shopping for just the right one. It was beautiful and worked well for the reception. My husband had to put it together with help. As it was a wedding gift for the newlyweds, the next June my husband and son-in-law put it up in their back yard out on the farm. They thought they would get it done as well and more quickly by anchoring it down by using cement blocks rather than a better way.
Not two days later, it was destroyed by the first high wind.
As you write about the “tent”, I think of compromising the base and the results.
The sad and disappointed feeling quickly returns to mind.