It is a different world since 1976 and as far as Clinton,
if half the idiots who voted for Perot would have voted for G.H.W. Bush we wouldn’t have some of the crap we are facing today.
Have you lived outside of your state and have you traveled much?
I have lived in New Orleans, I have lived in the suburbs of Birmingham and I have lived where I live now in my home town which is Alabama’s oldest city. My wife (and in-laws) are all from an old Charleston family.
I was in business till I retired and regularly went on business trips across the country and had to interact with a lot of people. That I have seen the country does not change the fact that Barbour is probably pound for pound the best candidate to go against Obama unless you know of some other governor that has his kind of record.
Sanford blew it. Crist looks like he’s on the way out. When I think of successful, crisis tested governors who would sell well in the America of 2012 the best ones that come to my mind are Barbour and Riley and if you take out Alabama hometeam prejudice, Barbour is far superior to Riley. Sanford would have been great but he had to throw it all away for some Argentinian woman. Vitter would also be excellent if he weren’t also a pervert. Jindal has no charisma to speak of.
Barbour is someone who can win and who I know can effectively govern. Daniels probably gets states like Wisconsin that Barbour has no chance to but Barbour can definitely win and would make a great president.