SARA GETTIN' READY TO RUN
Posted on 03/24/2011 10:48:24 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
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But there are four solid reasons why Barbour could be the Republican sleeper in 2012. Let’s look at them in ascending order.
4. The Republican field, less than 10 months from the 2012 Iowa caucuses, does not have a front runner yet. Mitt Romney has troubles with evangelicals and small government conservatives. Sarah Palin has squandered her fame (though not her fortune) and now looks unserious. Mike Huckabee doesn’t want it … the telltale sign is that he has comfortably settled into his old overweight self. Newt Gingrich, though he imagines himself a Churchill in the wilderness, is past his sell date. Tim Pawlenty is trying to be all things to all conservatives but so far he is unable to convey much passion. Some deep part of Mitch Daniels apparently doesn’t want the job. Jeb Bush has the wrong last name. Chris Christie might be too regional.
3. Barbour is easily the most connected of all Republican candidates. He knows every governor, most legislators, all the fundraisers. He is well-liked.
2. He has performed well as Mississippi’s governor, both during the Hurricane Katrina crisis and in the everyday governor’s stuff of tamping down the state’s notorious tort bar, balancing budgets and promoting Mississippi as a place to do business. Barbour is, simply, a terrific salesmen for Mississippi’s business community.
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I believe it will get even better from here on out.
Our side is clearly being more careful who we pick this time around!
Obama looks like a little girl - with those girly legs and big knees. When he wears shorts he looks like he stepped off the set of the movie “Meatballs.”
People in Mississippi these days just keep their fingers crossed that their homestead isn’t on a piece of property some corporate giant wants for their next plant.
I believe Haley’s a serious candidate. But so are most of the contenders (sorry, Mr. Trump). You can be a serious candidate and still lose the nomination. In fact, given that there’s more than one serious candidate in the race (yes, including her), that’s going to happen to most of them.
Oh for sure. He should only wear suits. He looks pathetic in shorts.
Well plus the fact that Corzine had ruined Jersey too.....but you do have a point. If he won the Republican nomination I would not say another word about his weight. But we are only talking here and Sarah is going to get the nomination anyway so I don’t feel that horrible discussing this on our site.
Oh PAH -LEEEZE.
Just so we remember, Haley Barbour turned his back on Reagan in 1979 and campaigned for Connally. His comment was “I supported Reagan last time but now he’s too OLD.”
I’m sure - he received orders from the GOP machine.
Barbour could very well be the best one out there on the issues and the one with the most America-centred vision.
Go Haley!
I disliked Barbour as chair of the RNC but this article claims he’s been a good governor (serving his full term too!) and, frankly, we could use that kind of person in the White House in 2012. I’m willing to give him a look despite his baggage.
“I really don’t think the people of the US are going to elect a fat, red-faced, white-haired Southern man,”
I didn’t think they were going to elect a jug-eared nonentity with a name like “Barack Hussein Obama,” either.
“Barbour is easily the most connected of all Republican candidates. He knows every governor, most legislators, all the fundraisers. He is well-liked. “
I just don’t see that as a plus for the rest of us.
Colonel, USAFR
Oh, I did. I was worried about Hussein from the beginning. I had seen him in action in Illinois.
Yes, Sarah is my bet!
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Then why in the world is she talked about 24/7/365? Not a single day goes by without a Sarah Palin article from somewhere.
Maybe because not all publicity is good publicity.
Me either, and I'm in Mississippi.
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