[Torie]

Good luck, but I am skeptical as well. He looks and sounds like a Southern good ole boy. But with intense media exposure, that will either gain traction or fade. I don't think Barbour would run for president in any event, but that's just a guess. Just who does have what it takes however, I am not sure. I don't know some of the Pubbie governors well enough to handicap, but governors do have an advantage.

[onyx]

He looks and sounds like a Southern good ole boy. But with intense media exposure, that will either gain traction or fade.

He looks and sounds Southern 'cause he is. He's charming, he's smart, he's from the humblest of beginnings, and there's not a finer or more wholesome, self-made man in politics today.

I agree with you, however, "he'll either gain traction of he won't." If folks give him a chance, they'll love him. Haley is one pol, whose life is a open book and its pages are all clean.