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The Republican Party isn’t big enough to “throw people overboard,” so while internal debate is healthy, the party must ultimately stick together, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told a crowd of GOP activists in Des Moines on Saturday.

Wading into a contentious debate being waged within the Republican Party of Iowa, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told a crowd of GOP activists and elected officials Thursday night that the only way back into the majority is to resist demands for ideological purity.

Visiting Iowa Thursday to help raise money for the Republican Party of Iowa, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour reiterated his belief that disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford does not need to resign.

When Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour visits Des Moines Thursday night it will be as chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA).
Barbour, who was already set to assume the title in 2010, will take over sooner than scheduled for beleaguered South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who admitted Wednesday that his recent unexplained disappearance was the result [...]

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says publicly that trips this week to New Hampshire and Iowa are simply part of his duties as as incoming chairman of the Republican Governors Association. But any visit to the nation’s presidential battlegrounds is going to generate a lot of buzz.