Mississippi stuck with Haley Barbour. Poor MS

[RyanPsych]

Haley Barbour, the Republican governor of Mississippi, announced yesterday that he will not be seeking his party's nomination for the presidency in 2012. A look at his record suggests he may have done the nation a favor by pulling out.

The 63-year-old former tobacco lobbyist and former leader of the Republican National Committee and Republican Governors Association explained that he didn't have the "absolute fire in the belly" required.

Fire or not, early polls haven't offered much good news to the governor. A McClatchy-Marist poll found that Barbour commanded about 1 percent support among the Republican primary electorate. The governor's announcement followed visits to the all-important primary states of New Hampshire, South Carolina and Iowa. Unfortunately for Barbour's rumored presidential ambitions, he consistently polled in the single digits among Republican primary voters.

Like most of the potential Republican nominees, Barbour has had a few recent gaffes. Granted, they haven't been nearly as controversial as Donald Trump's head-first dive into birther-ism or Michele Bachmann's string of historical fallacies, but they have made news. Barbour angered many civil rights activists when he praised the Citizens Councils (then known as the White Citizens Councils), a historically racist organization. One of this group's first actions, in 1955 in Barbour's hometown of Yazoo City, was to publish in an ad in the local newspaper the names of African Americans who signed a petition in favor of desegregation of public schools

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[Rowdyboy]

1. He's never here. spends all his time fundraising for the GOP and lets his cronies

here raid the cookie jar. I wish the pig had run just so I could see him humiliated. What fun it would have been to see Haley lose to a Kenyan, socialist black man.

[Zoeisright]

2. They voted for him.

I don't feel sorry for them at all.

[indepat]

3. That's a big

:thumbsup: Mississippians are getting their just desserts. :patriot:

[texshelters]

4. I only feel sorry for those that voter against this plutocrat

but those that voted for him get what they deserve.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[Spinny Liberal]

5. Heh I have a blog friend

who is from MS, and he gets so much sympathy from us.

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. He cannot run for reelection due to term limits

MS voters will pick his successor this November.

[onpatrol98]

7. baffling

there are people here in Mississippi who ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MAN AND THINK HE'S A GENIUS...our educational system has failed us, clearly...I had to back off of a conversation because I had a coworker upset at my pronouncement that Haley was not in danger of becoming president any more than McCain was...

it's been months and the person is still mad at me...admittedly, I may have made one joke too many...but come on...