Comments on: Barbour: GOP must resist quest for purity http://iowaindependent.com/16800/barbour-gop-must-resist-quest-for-purity Iowa politics, news and commentary Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:06:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: daddysteve http://iowaindependent.com/16800/barbour-gop-must-resist-quest-for-purity/comment-page-1#comment-24418 daddysteve Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:19:52 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=16800#comment-24418 Gay marriage and abortion? Is this what's bringing down America? I realize there is little else to distinguish republicans from democrats but still... Gay marriage and abortion? Is this what's bringing down America? I realize there is little else to distinguish republicans from democrats but still…

]]> By: daddysteve http://iowaindependent.com/16800/barbour-gop-must-resist-quest-for-purity/comment-page-1#comment-19707 daddysteve Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:19:52 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=16800#comment-19707 Gay marriage and abortion? Is this what's bringing down America? I realize there is little else to distinguish republicans from democrats but still... Gay marriage and abortion? Is this what's bringing down America? I realize there is little else to distinguish republicans from democrats but still…

]]> By: daddysteve http://iowaindependent.com/16800/barbour-gop-must-resist-quest-for-purity/comment-page-1#comment-17496 daddysteve Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:19:52 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=16800#comment-17496 Gay marriage and abortion? Is this what's bringing down America? I realize there is little else to distinguish republicans from democrats but still... Gay marriage and abortion? Is this what's bringing down America? I realize there is little else to distinguish republicans from democrats but still…

]]> By: milican http://iowaindependent.com/16800/barbour-gop-must-resist-quest-for-purity/comment-page-1#comment-17478 milican Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:08:40 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=16800#comment-17478 Where do you draw the line though? Sounds to me like some are willing to sacrifice their principles for power. If we had not had spend happy Republicans in office the last 8-years then the Republicans would still be in power.<br><br>Instead, a Republican majority in Congress and a Republican in command at the White House doubled the national debt, passed the largest increase in entitlements since President Johnson (Medicare Part D), and allowed a Federal Reserve and lax fiscal policies to destroy our economy.<br><br>If there isn't ideological purity, then there should at least be pillars on which the Republican party stands, and if fiscal conservatism isn't a core pillar of the Republican Party then I don't know what is.<br><br>JOhn Where do you draw the line though? Sounds to me like some are willing to sacrifice their principles for power. If we had not had spend happy Republicans in office the last 8-years then the Republicans would still be in power.

Instead, a Republican majority in Congress and a Republican in command at the White House doubled the national debt, passed the largest increase in entitlements since President Johnson (Medicare Part D), and allowed a Federal Reserve and lax fiscal policies to destroy our economy.

If there isn't ideological purity, then there should at least be pillars on which the Republican party stands, and if fiscal conservatism isn't a core pillar of the Republican Party then I don't know what is.

JOhn

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