[Theodore R.]

Haley did run for the Senate -- 20 years ago. He lost badly to entrenched Democrat icon, John Cornelius Stennis. He has not sought office again. It will be tough for any Republican to win the MS governorship -- only one has ever done so, twice, and he was a total failure in the long run.

[StoneWallJack]

Kirk Fordice, the Mississippi Republican governor to whom you refer as a "failure in the long run" was anything but a failure. He battled and battered the Dim-ocrats and their leftist newspaper, the Clarion Ledger, for eight years. He self destructed (over a childhood sweetheart) at the end of his term. As a whole, however, his tenure of "not bending one inch on conservative issues" was refreshing and admirable to this Mississippian.