Brilliant as usual and you are right we do have a center right country and it remains so.A recent Gallup poll verifys your post.
As far as miss. goes its a clusterfark. Heres some of the research I have done in the past few days its never ending.
Here’s what may be going on in Miss.Dirty politics at the highest levels.Haley Barbour in collusion with the Gov. of Mississippi.
Seems Haley Barbour just couldn’t stand to see his lobbying group go down in flames if ol’ Thad Cochran was not elected again.
trouble is no on expects Cochran,76,to actually serve out his term. So, speculation started who would be the man to replace him.
Seems it may be Congressman Greg Harper according to the link above and clip below.
Here’s a clip:
……..Shaver adds that he’s heard Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) is the likely choice for Cochran’s replacement, if that’s how it goes down, mid-term.
“I’ve been told that Phil Bryant likes Gregg Harper a whole lot,” Shaver said. “If you sit and look who in Mississippi is the heir apparent to Thad, again you go back and look at Roger Wicker and you say, again, there was nobody else that was lined up to do it. What I have heard is that is what the governor wants. He wants Gregg Harper in that position.”
Seems Barbour and family except for his brother who was a McDaniel supporter are perfectly willing to use the Miss. commie-dems to defeat a Tea Party candidate, McDaniel, or basically anyone who threatened his lobbying empire said to reach from dc to Miss.
Sick, sick.
Once this story gets out and it will, the war on rinos and the GOPe will intensify even more. The fat cats in the GOP may have paid a very high price to keep their pork alive in Miss.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3173636/posts
Here’s a wiki clip on Barbour’s lobbying firm BGR. This is big time and has links to everything, this is some serious stuff.
“Barbour has been described as “one of Washington’s all-time mega-lobbyists.”[12] He “was a wealthy K Street lobbyist for giant corporations such as RJ Reynolds, Philip Morris, Amgen, Microsoft, United Health, Southern Company, and many others.”
[13] In 1991, Barbour helped found the lobbying group now known as BGR Group,[14] a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm, with Ed Rogers, a lawyer who formerly worked in the George H. W. Bush administration. In 1994, Lanny Griffith (also a former Bush administration appointee) joined the firm.
In 1998, Fortune magazine named Barbour Griffith & Rogers as the second-most-powerful lobbying firm in America.[15] In 2001, after the inauguration of George W. Bush, Fortune named it the most powerful.[16] The firm “is employed by several foreign countries, as well as oil and cigarette companies.”[12] Its role in advocating on behalf of the tobacco industry has been particularly prominent.
[17] BGR also “lobbied on behalf of the Embassy of Mexico in 2001 to promote a bill related to Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This provision would have provided a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the United States, through family connections or job skills, without a requirement that they return to their home country for the requisite 3-10 years. This is what’s often referred to as ‘amnesty.’”
[18] “As part of that work, Barbour’s firm arranged meetings and briefings with ‘Senators, members of Congress and their staffs, as well as Executive Branch Officials in the White House, National Security Council, State Department, and Immigration & Naturalization Service’. Barbour’s firm charged Mexico $35,000 a month, plus expenses.”[19]
As of 2010, the firm remains one of DC’s top 25, but has seen revenues drop both in 2009 and in 2010.[20] Barbour continues to “collect payments from BGR through a blind trust, which was recently valued at $3.3 million.”[12]” Second most powerful lobbying firm in the US—pretty much says it all.
I agree, bray’s article this morning is fantastic. On point and truly dissects the GOP problem today.
Great add on analysis too, rodguy. I think Halley Barbour has been suspect ever since he forced the purchase of his book on the GOP so it could be given away to delegates at a GOP national convention.