Barbour: Don’t expect purity from GOP nominee

Barbour: Don’t expect purity from GOP nominee

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour implored conservative activists who were attending this year’s Faith and Freedom Coalition conference to not expect purity from any presidential candidate and to unify around the eventual Republican nominee so that they could beat President Obama.

Barbour is one of the savviest political minds in either party, so his comments suggest he senses that many conservatives are uneasy about the current crop of Republican candidates.

No candidate is going to agree with you on everything, Barbour told the crowd, but predicted that the eventual Republican nominee is still “going to agree with you on a lot more than you agree with Barack Obama.”

Washington Examiner
6/3/11