The man's a tube steak! He's shot himself in both feet with a coupla of dumbass comments about the good 'ol days of segregation!

Well yeah, and look at the number they did on Citizen Kane too!

You know, if all the GOP hopefuls we're seeing so far are it, the only thing the GOP is going to have to run in 2012 will be a holy alter with a bunch of burnt ashes in it.

The only thing scarier in a democracy than having bad candidates elected, is having no options to choose from. That's the way to kill a democracy. Give them fair and free elections, just don't give them anybody rational to choose from. Time to kill the whole primary/party system. It's designed to rig the system before the election. That way they fool the yokels.

Maybe we should just limit campaigning to private Facebook pages. That way nobody needs to spend a billion dollars to win an election and sell their soul in the process.

rrobeson.....that is NOT what the NYT/CBS Poll said last Friday about Romney/Obama in New Hampshire......Romney was predicted to pull ahead of Obama in that one.....check it out.

We better not be too hasty. We need to have JoAnna's take on how much better Haley would be than the current President of the United States of America. Maybe No Jo's , too. I'm keeping an open mind.

Romney is the best of what Republicans will offer. Now...Probbos with the red state Bible Thumpers...They will never elect a Mormon. People...wake up...The RNC has an embedded template for candidates: must be white, male, 57 to 62, college educated in a southern college, totally malleable to do the bidding of the pupper masters of the RNC and oh...it doesn't hurt to have ties to Corporate America and Big Big Big Money. After all, isn't that what buys elections these days thanks to the Supreme Court?

rrobeson, the best thing for our democracy would be for all states to adopt an open primary system. In an open primary, voters can vote for their favorite candidate, no matter which party. the top two vote getters, regardless of party, run off in the general. This would break the death grip of the party bosses who are the only beneficiaries of the current system. CA will have an open primary for the 2012 election, but CA's not a battle ground state so won't be all that interesting.

Geez, I wish this was even worth a comment. Ooops, just made one.

Why would a 19th century, anti-intellectual, anti-modern, anti-scientific, anti-democratic racist run anyway?

Just asking.

My homage to Stu's Doug Song in the Hangover

What do Birthers dream of when they take a little Birther snooze

Do they dream of burning crosses or Sarah Palin in a Caribou suit

Don't you worry your little Hairpiece head

We're gonna get you back to Mississippi and your cozy little Birther bed

And then we're gonna find your best friend Thug

And then you're gonna give him a best friend hug

Thug thug Oh thug thuggie thuggie thug thug

But if thug's been murdered by crystal meth tweekers...then you're sh!t out of luck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojkUv4aWY_0

AlwaysFaithful: how appropriate a moniker. If your man couldn't stand the heat, you've made the argument for him not to get into the race. This isn't a cakewalk. No candidate can expect or should expect filtered, easy questions and gentle treatment. This is the presidency of the United States for crying out loud--and you're already whining about tough questions aimed at those who you politically agree with. If your candidate can't do better than that, find another, tougher candidate.

Why; because we have the worst President in the history of our country sitting in the White House right now. Charlie Sheen would do a better job.

joe mota

I am afraid the Open Primary is unlikely to be broadly embraced. The Wisconsin Legislature just passed a bill to reimburse the Wisconsin Republican Party $100,000 for seeking a court injunction to overturn the Open Primary Rules voted in place at the Wisconsin Republican Convention. If Political leaders are willing to engage in that kind of open hypocrisy and double dealing to stop it, that is more than an uphill climb, it is a shear cliff.

To many beers Brewzkey?

The worst President left office 2 years ago. And your in for another 4 years of Obama.

One Republican down, 8 more to go.

"Haley Barbour would have been slaughtered unmercifully in the blogs by rabid DEMS & LIBBERS....."

LOL "DEMS & LIBBERS"

Isn't that like an oxymoron? I can see why you would be a Haley supporter.

Here's my comment. I'm Independent, lean more conservative, and usually vote my conscious, not a party line, or who I'm TOLD to vote for. Now, with that said, can we get rid of Trump, Palin, and Newt, too?

reliant, I can see where in states without a voter referendum or initiative system, it would be near impossible to change the political status quo, which obviously favors the incumbents. It's unfortunate that a reliably high number of voters buy into the 2 party division where my party is the good guys and the other party is the bad guys. It's a manifestation of that part of human psychology where we tend to divide into groups that are polar opposites. (brethren vs. infidels; yankee fans vs. red sox fans; republicans vs. democrats). I think open primaries would help break up the polarity in the political arena. there's probably no hope for reconciling yankees fans with red sox fans. Yankee fans will always think the red sox cheat and vice versa.

Always faithful? Are you smoking the dope today? You talk about the "number we do " on Palin, etc?

Are you friggin KIDDING me??? What kind of number have YOUR guys been doing on Obama since day ONE? Same thing you idiots tried on Clinton. Didn't work then and aint going to work now. I suppose you have NO trouble with the fact Barbour is as slick a lobbiest as they come? He works for tabacco... guess what he did when he won as Gov. He killed one of the best anti-smoking programs in the country. Most states never used their tobacco money for this (they just put it in the bank), but MS did.

Brewski, please provide concrete facts regarding "worst pres in history". He has already created more jobs than Bushwhacked did in 8 years. He kept us out of a depression caused by both sides, but on Bushies watch (and his out of control spending). Instead of just screaming insults, try providing facts (and don't start quoting def spending as we all know the majority of what he has spent was created and voted on by prior presidents...

wives: Obviously "the worst President in history debate is subjective" IMO; it's between Carter, Obama and Bush, Jr. You can pick the order, but all three are there. I'm no Bush fan and can't stand Obama's naivete and spend, spend, spend policies. And sorry, but the majority of Obama's spending is not Bush related.

Bill Maher's and Keith Olbermann's Political Expert and VERY Confidential Consultant on all things Democratic.......that's who!....shhhhh.....don't tell anybody!

University...Doesn't matter that people thought he had a chance. Big Daddy Barbour thought he had a chance. That's what all those under the table deals buys for a Big Daddy.

Hey, were going to all hold hands, stand in a circle and chant away the illegal immigration problem here in Texas- mythology is the Perry way. You laugh now, but you wont be laughing when Perry puts a hex on you!

Frank:

You could well be correct. Whoever gets the GOP/TP nomination will be a "throw away" candidate. I might put Huckabee back on the front-runner list. He might be selected by default.

I agree with the 'throw away' candidate theory here, except I think it will be Romney. He's clearly the Al Gore of the GOP party.

Please take Mitch Daniels. I have had about all I can take of our Governor and the whole GOP/TP agenda. I'm surrounded by states pushing more and more absurd laws...

robeson....you nailed it. Romney will get the nod. Impossible to say who'll win in 2012...too many variables still, but Mitt will get the nomination. Republicans always seem to give it to whoever came in 2nd last time.

Doug - its best you don't the republicans have fix in. Their anointed candidate (*drum roll***********) the Honorable -- None of the Above will win in a landslide. Remember you heard it here first!

Or senator like some people. I love the liberal logic that says if you quit a government position to become a private citizen, you're a quiter. Its only if you quit one government position to take yet another government position that you get a pass. Duh!

I love the liberal logic that says if you quit a government position to become a private citizen, you're a quiter.

@dimbulb - listen, if you run a campaign for office and are elected to a 4 year term, quitting after 2 years means one thing and one thing only -YOU'RE A QUITTER! Live with it, own it, your girl Palin did it, she quit.

So did Hillary. Live with it.

Uh, Hillary is now our Secretary of State! And what is Palin, the private citizen, doing now for a job?

Talk about having a "servant's heart", like Sarah Palin always does! Seems that Idea does not apply to public service! Guess it's OK to run for office and not complete the term, if you have a much better and faster way to make money! That's the Republican idea of public service! Quit if the money is better elsewhere, ignore your commitment to serve the people! They will understand that you are too busy making money to care about their needs! You're not a quitter, but you're a patriot!

1. Happy - I can see no reason to admire Gov. Porky, he couldn't even make it to halfway in the primary season b4 he quit! Mississippi welcome Blimpo back, he's all yours! Poor Bas****s!
2. Con not Rep - I'm glad you capped off your thought with the most intelligent thing you said Duh. At least that made a little sense and reflects your brilliance!
3. drano -don't go there with corn-servatives, quitting is seen as a badge of honor. What dolts!

jcaron: As I said, if you quit one government job to take another, you get a pass in liberal la la land. Thanks for validation of that point. I knew someone would come along and use that straw man argument as a validation of Hillary quiting her elected 6 year position of Senator.

Hillary used the people of New York as nothing more than a stepping stone for her own ambitions of wanting to be president. She quit her job as senator......that's right, she "quit", to again further her own ambitions. There's no law that says you must accept a position from the President. Pepole turn down appointments quite frequently. During the campaign she lied her ass off about how she wanted to be the Senator from New York......well, at least until the presidential election came along anyway, then she was willing to dump her senate seat faster than a red headed step child. Anyone who thinks that Hillary puts anyone but herself first is delusional beyond belief.

But as usual, liberals will beat the drum against someone on the other side, while totally ignoring their own hypocricy.

Sarah Palin is living the American dream. She had her own tv show with her family, wrote a best-selling book, and is in great demand as a public speaker. I believe she has every right to be proud of herself.

Con not Rep - re: your 6:13 PM post - Really, you are a gem, oops my bad, coal is not a gem at least not until pressure and heat combine to produce a diamond, I'm afraid in your case all the pressure and heat in the universe would only result in soot. Are you a patriot or just the normal corn-servative poser with the immense imaginary goose bumps? Most Americans would be honored to serve at the request of any POTUS,not so much, working for Faux News. Your lack of reasoning skill would be endearing if you were 7 yrs. old. Has it slipped your memory that G. W. Bush was re-elected to a 2nd term for Gov of Tx. in 1999 and became Pres. in Jan. 2001. Can you figure out who, without using your fingers and toes, also quit the Governorship without finishing his term and just used his office as a stepping to a higher office. Forgive me if I have serious doubts.

Amused: But you see, unlike pompous liberals, like you, who feel its their place to determine what everyone else should or should not be honored in accepting or not accepting, I let the actual person decide rather than some self absorbed liberal narcissist, like you. You completely ignore the fact that many people turn down appointments from a president, and believe that because its "an honor"..... and yet another government job, that it somehow makes quitting one position as being acceptable, and quitting another position to return to private life as being worthy of disdain.

You see, amused, I don't worship at the alter of the federal government as many liberals do. I don't view America as being the federal government, as many liberals do. My life does not revolve around the federal government, as it does for many liberals.

It doesn't bother me that Palin resigned. It doesn't bother me that Hillary resigned. It doesn't bother me that Bush was only governor for a partial term. The resignation is NOT the argument. Do you not have the mental capacity to understand that?? No, I don't guess you do.

The argument is the liberal hypocrisy from people, like you, with political blinders on who trash one (Palin) and give the other (Hillary) a pass, because they deem leaving an elected position to return to private life as being a "quitter", but if you take another government job then you get a pass. Got it?? No really??... do you understand?? Are you capable of grasping logic even as simple as that??? I'd really be surprised if your intellecutal capability was up to it, given your post.

So go ahead and continue in your blind, self absorbed, elitist, liberal hypocricy. In fact, I encourage you to do so. Its one of the reasons liberals lost so badly in the last election, and one of the same reasons they will lose so badly in the next one as well. But you don't have the ability to see that either I suppose.

Con Not Rep: Please show me any statistics of any sort that state that liberals are self-absorbed, elitist, hypocritical, lazy, unpatriotic or lumped into any sort of statistic that you would like to spout. Who gave you the right to qualitatively lump anyone together, Reps or Dems, as though Reps are a religious, chaste, non-elitist, non-hypocritical, patriotic, working, non-lazy entity; while all Dems are the exact opposite? What a load of crap. The only problem I see with Reps, while all being probably decent caring human beings, is that they are under the thrall of capitalism and corporate lying.

Cathy: Its called an opinion. And I'm perfectly capable of forming one on my own, from my own observations, without some statistic. I'm not like a liberal: I don't need someone to lead me around by the nose and tell me what to think or do based on some statistic.

You obviously have a great need to be led by government. Sad. Having said that though, I will defend to the death your right to think my opinion is a load of crap. That's America, and that's free speech, and I will always embrace that regardless of whether I think the speech is right or wrong. That can't be said of liberals, however, because on top of everything else, they are also fascists to the core.

But just to humor you, I'll give you one example on the hypocritical issue, since that is the core issue that all of my posts on this thread revolve around for the most part:

To wit: Liberals are always the ones that claim to "care" so much about the poor and downtrodden....except for the fact (you can go look it up) that conservatives give more per capita to charity than liberals.....quite a bit more. And ironically, since this whole story started with Haley Barbour, from Mississippi, it can be noted that Mississippi is a red state, and is often near the top in per capita charitable giving, while blue states like Massachusetts, which also have a much higher income levels, are often much closer to the bottom.

In the decade before his 2008 selection to be vice president, Joe Biden gave a whopping average of $369 dollars a year to charity. Woo Hoo!! Guess Delaware, (Biden's home state) is probably in the same league as Massachusetts. To his credit, Biden has increased his giving a bit since becoming vice president, but for my money, its only because the liberal media has reported how stingy he is and he knows it makes him look bad. To understand why this is, all one has to do is understand a core tenant of liberalism: Liberals expect the government to do it. Liberals are always generous with other people's money.

Cathy, and oh yes, if we were all just good little anti capitalist, anti corporate, Marxist statists like you, then everything would be just great. The only problem is that America was founded to be a free nation where individuals could use their ingenuity to become as successful as they could.

Liberals hate that with a passion, and Obama has made it clear that he will use any means he can to see that it doesn't stay that way. But thankfully, Americans have woken up to his putrid little Marxist wet dream, and we will be throwing him out of office in a little less than two years. January 20th, 2013, will become known in politics as the day marking the end of an error.

So you go ahead and stay under the thrall of socialism and Obama's lies, I'll have far more freedom under captialism than you ever will under socialism.

GO USA...Barbour is something else...a career politician who likes his beignets with lots and lots of sugar. No collards or blackeye peas for this swiller at the trough. Don't wonder why we have such a huge deficit. Or why the country is in the "red". I'd love to know how much Barbour paid in federal taxes last year.

Why do you care how much anyone paid in federal taxes? It is not as though the IRS calls you to make up the shortfall. I bet it was more than you and me combined.

Your language is straight out of Bill O'Reillys dictionary. Think for yourself, dittohead.

FatOldBumpa,

Somebody should take a poll and find out how many people actually remember what a 'ditto' was.

Bob...oh puhlease.....Surely you jest? You really think a white, red state governor like Barbour from one of the most racist states in the country wasn't put out there by the RNC as a threat to President Obama?

Southerners who fly a flag other than the Stars and Stripes ask for anti-southern sentiments. Southerners whose politicians take more out of the federal kitty than the pay in deserve to be bashed. Why should states in the north, midwest and northwest subsidize a bunch of slackers who carry on business 5 hours a day and then rest as soon as the heat rises? Why should a handful of red states pay $1 in federal taxes and get back nearly double in return?

Which wouldn't even be so bad if the southerners whose hide are so tender aren't also the southerners who take more from their state funds and leave the working poor and minorities to "accept their lot in life". Which is to say, barely there healthcare and decent educations for their kids.

Whose fooling who? Take a trip through any southern state and you can tell where the "southerners" live and where the rest of their state learned to "accept their lot in life". You people go around criminalizing the poor when you are the ones who deny them equal rights to prosperity.

One by one they will self-destruct. Lets move on to Donald J Trump who is self-destructing day by day. Perhaps all of the free media exposure will result in his being exposed for the fraud that he is and we will be rid of this blowhard once and for all. As for Mr. Barbour, perhaps he was afraid that his black relatives would come out of the wood works and expose him maybe shame him.

The nation's tragic loss shall be Mississippi's tragic gain. We are very glad that he decided to stay at home.

Hahahahaha - that is without a doubt the funniest thing I have seen in this diatribe.

I guess you guys forgot about who got the "dirty" side of Hurricane Katrina. The storm surge was huge and went miles inland in Mississippi. Yet Mississippi has done very well in recovering from Katrina, despite being the poorest state in the Union. Mr. Barbour helped MS in their remarkable recovery from Katrina.

Uh, they have papers there? Wouldn't that imply reading?

rrobeson

They still get their papers a day late in Mississippi and they go straight to the outhouse, where I guess you could say they get read . . . by a**holes only.

You guys must have slept through English class. Several great literature writers came from Mississippi including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. This does not include other well-known personalities such as Oprah Winfrey and Morgan Freedman, who lives near my hometown and owns a nationally-recognized restaurant there along with one of my classmates and another local businessman.

David - If your Republican, then you should know that prior to becoming The Governor of The Great State Mississippi, Haley Barbour was the Chairman of the (RNC) Republican National Committee in Washington DC!

David - If your Republican, then you should know that prior to becoming The Governor of The Great State Mississippi, Haley Barbour was the Chairman of the (RNC) Republican National Committee in Washington DC

Is that supposed to be an endorsement or more reasons why he shouldn't run.

Remind me again who the only party was to have a member of the KKK in the senate in modern times?? Oh yes, it was Robert Byrd, a liberal democrat who personally filibustered for 14 hours against the civil rights act of 1964 and also opposed the voting rights act of 1965.

and the rest of the story for the millionth time...the Dixiecrats (racists) became REPUBLICANS with the passage of the civil rights act........how many times do we have to tell you this? Are you immune to facts?

The Ku Klux Klan was a notoriously Democrat supported group (uh, Senator Byrd from W.Virginia... their Grand Dragon) The vile comments, and parroted talking points, here are just further proof that the left is scared to death of the American people waking up to the liberal agenda that has plagued this country far too long.

Soothfast...They don't call themselves KKK anymore...to much vitriol in that moniker. Now it's International White Supremacists (IWS).

@Maggie - quit trying to "fix stupid" with facts. As you can see you are wasting your breath.

The Republicans voted for the civil rights act by a far greater percentage than the Democrats. In fact it was by about 30%....not a small number. But liberals can't stand to be reminded of that. And yet you've got the one poster who claims that the democrats became Republicans after that. Too funny. I guess if you're a racist, you're going to go join the party that voted for it by the larger percentage than then party who filibustered against it. Liberal logic.....duh!!

My homage to Stu's Doug Song in the Hangover

What do Birthers dream of when they take a little Birther snooze

Do they dream of burning crosses or Sarah Palin in a Caribou suit

Don't you worry your little Hairpiece head

We're gonna get you back to Mississippi and your cozy Birther bed

And then we're gonna find your best friend Thug

And then you're gonna give him a best friend hug

Thug thug Oh thug thuggie thuggie thug thug

But if thug's been murdered by crystal meth tweekers...then you're sh!t out of luck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojkUv4aWY_0

Robert Byrd is dead. Let the dead lie in peace. He renounced his racist past, but Gov Barbour has not! Don't get me started! Now about Jefferson Davis, he was a real manly racist!

Hey ConservativeNotRepublican

Those Republicans who voted for civil rights were the Republicans that LBJ had the best 'dirt' on.

Thanks for the laugh.

dontgivemethepenguin - in your dreams!

Laugh all you want, but I think it's really send in the clowns time.

They used to send in the circus clowns in a tiny clown car. They will need a full size tourist bus for this crowd of clowns.

He's polliing, nationally, at less that 1%......not bad for an idiot.

Nonsense Marco,

Last poll I read stated that idiots in America clearly polled at 40% or greater. We have a representative republic in case you hadn't heard.

Underground....Another 8 years of a president who makes up her own language? Yeesh...And just when I thought Bushspeak was buried for good.