Haley Barbour: My wife loves Palin. Unlike some "women politicians," no chip on her shouler!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Barbour contradicts McCain, praises 'normal' females



"Regular people" aren't becoming more skeptical of Gov. Palin after listening to her speak, said Haley Barbour, Mississippi governor and longtime friend of Sen. McCain, to KYTV. That's just the "news people's perception." The media are the skeptics, and the people "liked what they saw," Barbour insisted.

"We'll see how she does in the debate."

"My wife loves her because...she doesn't have a chip on her shoulder like some women politicians, she is very 'normal' -- she doesn't have to tell you how smart she is. But she is a bonafide energy expert...Sarah Palin knows more about energy policy than the other three put together."

Palin wouldn't have much work to do in foreign policy as Vice President, Barbour added, but just like Mississippi is more "sensitive" to hurricanes, for example, than Kansas, Alaska might be more "sensitive," he went on, to our "Cold War opponent" Russia by being closer to its border.

KY3 News political notebook blog has more details here: http://ky3.blogspot.com/2008/09/haley-barbour-interview.html

This video is from KYTV, broadcast October 1, 2008: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_took_Palin_foreign_policy_advice_1001.html

[Avalux]

1. No Thanks. I don't care what he or his wife have to say.

Palin is far from 'normal' LOL.

[Bicoastal]

2. Yup, the GOP understands the female vote so well...

:sarcasm:

[BOSSHOG]

3. Oh Fuck Haley, do ya have to embarrass residents of your state?

Wouldn't have much work to do in foreign policy??? Christ. Yo haley relative to hurricanes you can't even get along with Louisiana let alone your fellow chucklehead gop governor getting along with Vlad.

[KingFlorez]

4. Normal?

What an idiot. What he really should say is "My wife stays in her place and agrees with what I think, the way women are supposed to do"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. BREAKING: "Economy rebounds on news that Palin is not 'uppity'"

:rofl:

:patriot:

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Is he trying to sound stupid?

He's succeeding if he is.

[hobbit709]

13. He's not trying

[baldguy]

6. Ya can't trust wimmin in polytics

Unless they's been properly trained, ya see.

[polichick]

7. Well, anyone who would willingly be married to Haley Barbour...

...(fill in the blank).

[phantom power]

9. Yeah, and she doesn't sigh a lot, or wear earth tones...

and I bet she's awesome to have a beer with too.

:boring:

[Shakespeare]

10. Wonder if Mrs. Barbour knows about the hookers that used to come up to his firm's office at night.

Let's just say I worked in the immediate vicinity of his lobbying firm (VERY immediate) for awhile about 10 years ago, and saw an awful lot that went on after hours when I was working overtime.

Barbour is a piece of shit.

[MrScorpio]

11. "Normality" is relative

I just don't trust his definition of the word

[Supersedeas]

12. I guess the GoP Elite has an issue with women who take strong positions -- hear that PUMAS.

[Obamarulz11]

14. The people in Mississippi want barbour impeached, why?

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080729/OPINION01/807290325/1008/OPINION

Gov. Haley Barbour's inconsistency over convicted murderers is still reverberating, raising questions about the role of governors in granting clemency.

Last week could be considered a bizarre sort of Tale of Two Cities. One convicted murderer, Michael David Graham, serving as a trusty in the Governor's Mansion, got a suspension of his sentence by Barbour, while down in death row at the State Penitentiary at Parchman, another convicted murderer, Dale Leo Bishop, was refused a stay by Barbour and was killed by lethal injection.

Making the tale of two murderers even more strange, Bishop was convicted in part based on the testimony of a cohort who actually dealt the fatal blows, but got life in prison rather than a death sentence. So, although Bishop participated in the act that resulted in murder, he did not himself kill the victim. But the person Barbour granted leniency did actually stalk and kill his victim, his ex-