How Can The GOP Get Its Groove Back?
Filmed on April 23, 2007

Governor Haley Barbour

Governor Haley Barbour reflects on the current state of the Grand Old Party and what it will take for it to regain its prominence in American politics. What did the GOP do right in the mid-nineties to capture a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in forty years, and what is it doing wrong today? And how can the party adapt the conservatism of Ronald Reagan to the current issues of the day? Video transcripts

Chapters:

01:17  Congress—What the GOP got right in 1994 and wrong in 2006
07:09  The Gipper versus Dubya
12:39  The GOP and the land of Dixie
18:29  The GOP, race, and immigration
22:17  Too much success?
28:49  Practical politics

Guests:

• Haley Barbour

  Haley Barbour is the Governor of Mississippi, a former political adviser to President Ronald Reagan, and former chairman of the Republican National Committee.