Posted on 05/22/2009 10:48:48 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
2012 Watch: Barbour to N.H. @ 1:46 pm by Jeremy P. Jacobs
A day after we learned the Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) is heading to Iowa at the end of June, we find out that he also plans to head to New Hampshire.
Barbour will headline an event for the New Hampshire Republican Party on June 24, one day before he's in Iowa.
There shouldn't be any doubt that Barbour is at least considering a run in 2012.
Barbour is a conservative, right?
We need to be careful that we don’t split our vote among 2 or 3 conservatives, allowing a RINO to slip through and get the nomination.
I like Barbour.
Barbour proved his idiocy in the last couple weeks.
We thought he was a conservative, but he’s looking more and more like a RINO.
“You ain’t nuthin’ but a RINO, crying all the time.”
DFU, maybe you can make a song about that using Elvis’ “Hound Dog”?
I was really impressed by his handling of Hurricane Katrna. He didn’t run away ahd hide like Schoolbus Nagin and then whine for federal funds.
I wish him luck but this points out a problem. If you are going to be a serious contender do you have to start campaigning already? This process is out of control.
There is no such thing as a RINO. Like it or not, this is the Republican Party, it is not the Conservative Party, never has been. The GOP establishment hated Reagan before 1980, they went along with him grudgingly because he knew how to win. But once Reagan left the White House, it was right back to “Business as Usual”.
Did Reagan know how to win in 1980 or was it more that Jimmy Carter was such a disaster that only the mentally ill would have voted for him a SECOND time?
The MSM will continuously attack Barbour for his past “contribution controversies”, his past connections to the Bush family when RNC Chair, and for his Southern drawl.
But no doubt Messiah-seeking Freepers inevitably will stamp him with the "RINO" label before too long.
Yep! He is not someone I would vote for. I live in his state and am feeling his idiocy!
Infighting in primaries is so tough that I won’t take anything said as true . . . will check out the candidates statements, actions, and history on my own. Voters get spun, sometimes 180 degrees from where they think they are.
Oops...looks like it’s already happened in the time I took to type my post!
See my last post . . . I was just saying that we need to check out the candidates positions carefully for ourselves or we will get spun in the political infighting.
Yes, good idea.
In so doing look at Barbour's whole history. He is definitely a strong conservative. The MSM will depict him as southern-drawling boob, but he is smart, solid, and not the old-fashioned stereotype you see at first glance.
Even if he ends up not running, it won't hurt to have him out there nationally articulating conservative policies. He's very good at that.
If he leans RINO, he isn’t going anywhere.
I like him because he's a git 'er dun man, but I'm not so hot on his views on property rights. He believes in Kelo type ideas.
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