Barbour didn't think he could beat Obama

[Hawaii Hiker]

And he's right, he couldn't..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42764804/ns/politics-decision_2012/

"The only two incumbents to lose the presidency since Herbert Hoover were Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992. In both instances, one of the Barbour advisers noted, there were common circumstances: both men faced ideologically-motivated primary challenges from within their own party and popular third party candidates snagged critical votes in the general election".

[brewens]

1. He'd have to learn to speak English first too. I can't ever understand

that gibberish he speaks. It sounds like a hawg shit in his mouth!

[calimary]

9. You and me both.

I'm sorry. Please forgive me for this pretty obvious prejudice. But every time he opens his mouth, he utters a mouthful of STOOOOpid. He just sounds freakin' STUPID.

[brewens]

11. It's fair to stick it to someone that probably embellishes and

plays the down home accent for all it's worth. I remember Phil Graham slipping up and forgetting his once. He said my mamma when he meant to say, my mowmma or however he usually pronounced it. Stammered and caught himself and tried to recover. Looked like a deer in the headlights.

I always wondered if that was Bush's problem speaking? If you see earlier footage of him speaking he comes off as exactly what he was. A fast talking smart assed preppie boy. They taught him Texan talk and mannerisms and he never really got it down.

[calimary]

13. Part of the problem in barbour's case is that he doesn't enunciate. It sounds almost as though

he's still eating while speaking. dubya spoke like that, too. Mush-mouth. Didn't enunciate. And he garbled words too. But bush didn't sound stupid. He sounded sleazy, like a slick-talking bullshit artist. The metaphoric used-car salesman. haley barbour sounds like a freakin' numbskull.

I don't know. Hey, I shouldn't be cruel about this. Kinda judgmental there. I apologize. But dammit, it really irks me! sarah palin's voice and manner of speaking, and inflections and pitch variations - ALL of that irks me too! And something about certain Southern drawls - the proverbial nails-on-blackboard.

[COLGATE4]

12. The real-life version of Foghorn Leghorn. n/t

[UrbScotty]

2. Of course, Perot most likely didn't cost Bush the 1992 election

Perot's vote totals in themselves likely did not cause Clinton to win. Even if all of these states had shifted to Bush and none of Bush's victories had been reversed (as seems plausible, in fact, as Bush won by less than 5% only in states that a Republican in a close election could expect to carry, particularly before some of the partisan shifts that took place later in the 1990s ñ Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Dakota and Virginia), Clinton still would have won the electoral college vote by 281 to 257.

http://archive.fairvote.org/plurality/perot.htm

[Lasher]

3. Hmm, I did not know that.

Thanks.

[Vicar In A Tutu]

10. No, but combine that with being primaried and forced to appease...

...Robertson and his kooky positions and you probably have a different story.

[damntexdem]

4. So, Barbour thought he'd be scalped?

[flamingdem]

5. That asshat racist didn't stand a chance

though the media wanted to pump him up, hi Tweety

[Keith Bee]

6. Correction:

Barbour knew damn well he couldn't beat Obama.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. For all of their bluster

I don't really think that the Republicans expect to beat Obama next year. If they seemed certain of victory, they'd certainly have more people actually jumping into the race than jumping out and/or simply forming exploratory committees.

[tanyev]

8. Yeah, the incumbency advantage. THAT'S why Haley Barbour wouldn't win.

:rofl: