Ugh, Barbour Makes Dry Run Into 2012 Proving Grounds

[babylonsister]

So many rethugs in trouble, so many other ones grasping. It could be a long few years.


Barbour Makes Dry Run Into 2012 Proving Grounds
By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff


Barbour remarks on health care outside the House chamber June 23. (Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty)


If anyone knows how to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, it’s Haley Barbour.

Whether the 61-year-old Mississippi governor can successfully apply that know-how in 2012 — and whether he wants to — are questions that will begin to be answered this week as he launches what many political observers see as an exploratory venture into presidential primary proving grounds.

Barbour helped Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell raise money on Monday. On Tuesday, he appeared in the Capitol for a health care press conference with House Republican leaders John Boehner of Ohio and Mike Pence of Indiana.

But it is the Wednesday and Thursday legs of his trip — to state fundraising dinners in New Hampshire and Iowa — that have attracted the attention of party players.

When will he decide whether to run? “Probably never,” he said Tuesday, adding that he told New Hampshire GOP Chairman John H. Sununu “I’m your man,” when Sununu said he was seeking a dinner speaker who wasn’t running for president.

Asked later to clarify whether he meant that he wouldn’t run in 2012, Barbour shot back, “I don’t think I said that.”

It was not the first time that Barbour has left open the door to a run.

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[spanone]

1. bring it on...another pasty white asshole republicon

[sasquatch]

2. I heard has some Indian ethnicity in him?

Es verdad?
:shrug:

[saltpoint]

3. Fast-forward to the 2012 election. Obama remains popular across all

demographic groups. The Pukes nominate Haley Barbour. Barbour crosses the country like Swamp Thing in a suit and tie, speaking to the citizenry. That voice, that smugness. Voters listen and are repelled. Obama crushes him and wins a second term.

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We need to know what we're up against. Recommended.

[babylonsister]

4. I do hope all his Katrina transgressions come to the fore.

Such as making a boatload of money, maybe not so legally or ethically, on the backs of the victims. :grr:

[saltpoint]

5. Yes. Barbour has an awfully trained nose for cash.

And an immense ego.

There's something in the air that's saying this ain't his year.


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