President Haley Barbour?

[Cyrano]

So Haley Barbour is thinking about running for president in 2012. What more do we need to inform us about the current state of American politics?

Haley Barbour's endorsement/defense of southern "Citizen's Councils," (the Klan without their sheets), is all that we need to know about him. One of the few differences I see between Barbour, Gingrich, Palin, Huckabee, and almost all the rest of the Republican presidential wanabees, is that, aside from Barbour, none of the rest ever (publicly) praised southern "Citizen's Councils." Yeah, he walked back from it, for whatever that's worth.

The Republican Party is presenting us with possible presidential candidates for 2012 that would have been looked upon as totally nuts in a sane society. And the most scary thing of all is that one of these people might actually end up in the White House. (Think Reagan, Bush II, but worse.)

And one more thought on Haley Barbour. It's impossible for me to look at him without picturing him with an apple in his mouth, being rotated on a spit over an open fire. To put it bluntly, it seems to me that this man is a pig who seems to lack a conscience, a soul and a single iota of humanity.

So do you think Haley Barbour has a chance in hell of becoming president?

[madokie]

1. I'd say no

too much of a douche to make it that far. :hi:

[HopeHoops]

2. Why is there always one flaming racist trying to run for president?

:shrug:

[Aramchek]

3. He has a Confederate Flag signed by Jefferson Davis. Let him be the figurehead for American Racism.

He'll go down in flames.

[Cleita]

4. If Bush could be a two term President, I

feel that even a pig like Haley Barbour could be too. I don't underestimate how the RepubliCON power machine works since they have the Supreme Court compromised.

[madmax]

5. I am so with you on that..

Completely stunned. Even though he stole 2000 with the help of the USSC, he came so close. How dumb is the American voter? Another reason I watch Palin...

[calimary]

6. One word.

ICK!!!!!

:puke:

[LuvNewcastle]

7. I have a friend who knows Barbour

pretty well. According to him, Haley likes to call black people "coons." My friend also told me once that if it were up to Haley, we wouldn't have unemployment insurance here in MS. Barbour has been an important figure in the Republican Party since the Southern Strategy days. He also had a very successful lobbying firm that made much of its money from tobacco companies. Haley knows how to get shit done and will do ANYTHING to accomplish his goals. If he wins the Repub. nomination -- and I think it's certainly possible -- we will see a very nasty Presidential campaign.

[Cyrano]

8. Beyond a "very nasty Presidential campaign," is the

thought that this knuckle dragging, bigot could actually end up winning a presidential election?

Well, Rome had their Caligula. Perhaps we're due for a modern day version of what can only be described as "Hannibal Lector inhabits the Oval Office."

[mudplanet]

9. I imagine ol' Haley is rather careful in his speech, and he may

even not be a bigot, but he is certainly a racist and a liar. And, unfortunately, he and lent trott are pretty representative of Mississippi. So when people find out I'm from Mississippi I get the feeling that they're looking at me and seeing a white sheet over my head. I've started telling people I'm from New Orleans, one of the three biggest cities in Mississippi.

Of course segregation wasn't a problem for Haley, he was the right color. No one ever burned a cross on his lawn or lynched on of his grandparents. I once had a friend's mother ask me over dinner, "Why did they want to cause all those problems here. We were always good to our Negroes." And actually, she was. Always decent and generous. But she didn't have the ability put herself in someone else's shoes and wonder what it would be like to not have power over your own life and not have equal rights. Kind of a moral imbecile.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. It's sad to say, but I don't think that

MS will ever change a whole lot, not unless there's a large influx of people from other places. Sure, things have changed, but that's not because Mississippians saw an injustice and chose to rectify it; they were given an ultimatum. People here know right from wrong, they just tell themselves that they'll do the right thing one day, never today. MS is an interesting place but it's also a very frightful place. The very best and the very worst of humanity exist side by side here, frequently within the same person.

[WinkyDink]

11. That flaccid mush-mouth? I think not.

[Arkana]

12. The guy's a stereotypical fat boy Southern racist.

Running against the first multicultural President in history would get his ass creamed.