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Filed under: Insensitive Dough Boy from Mississippi
Filed under: Insensitive Dough Boy from Mississippi
Alabama's outgoing Governor Riley has a reason to rejoice today, Haley Barbour's racist insensitivity just moved Riley up the GOP list for possible hopefuls in 2012, which gives the rest of us reasons to worry--Riley is smart enough to keep his race opinions to himself, but Alabamians know he isn't far off of Barbour's archaic thinking.
No southern republican is. But Riley's image has been carefully crafted to resemble the GOPs beloved Reagan and he has folks like Joe Scarborough of MSNBC (video link) urging Riley to run and cheer-leading for him to "Do for America what you have done for Alabama."
Riley has to gain traction outside of the south and we just do not see that as a reality, but politics has become so unpredictable anything could happen.
Some things just should not happen and Riley is one of them, Barbour is the other.
Barbour's thinly veiled racist remarks are becoming more and more commonplace in the media and it's clear he does not listen to advisers who surely must be telling him to get off the race topics. (Washington Monthly December 20, 2010)
Barbour is an arrogant sot mouthed idiot, a product of the Eastland Democrats who were hard core segregationists, Klansmen and racists to the core of their black hearts. He seems to suggest white supremacists were responsible for keeping Mississippi "peaceful."
Rachel Maddow and Eugene Robinson did a number on Barbour about his revisionist history a few months ago that we covered, and it should have taught Barbour a lesson about think first, engage mouth second, but it didn't take. This is symptomatic of the disease a lot of southern republicans have--they believe that being elected to office in a large majority translates into going back to the days of segregation. If you listen carefully to what they say, it comes through loud and clear.
Barbour is just not as careful and calculating in speech as a lot of them are and he is rightfully getting ripped apart in the media for it.
Once again, Massa Barbour has opened his mouth and removed all doubt who he really is. He's embraced by the GOP for his political connections and his uncanny ability to raise millions, but what now for the GOP and Barbour?
Are they going to continue to stand behind this huge liability to their party?
Probably.
Read more here
*Update--Predictably Barbour is trying to distance himself from his remarks. Too late, the mule has left the barn.
Older brother Jeppie Barbour shows that it runs in the family.
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God help us if Barbour and Riley are chosen in 2012. Surely the nation will reject these racist bigots.
ReplyDeleteThey'll keep Haley alright, they need his money making abilities.
ReplyDeleteRiley is doing the happy time dance you betcha!
ReplyDeleteIf he does run, he'll be open to some serious scrutiny so it could be a blessing in disguise.
Barbour is finished with this last round of coffin nails.
ReplyDeleteRacist THEN
ReplyDeleteRacist NOW
Racist FOREVER
The Southern Strategy is to blame for a lot of this.
ReplyDelete"Recent politics in the South reveal how the tactics of Bush advisor Karl Rove built upon Nixon's Southern Strategy. With no pretense to a moderate—let alone progressive—course of action, the newest New South seeks its future in a utopian cocoon and its heaven in a gated community of the rich, the powerful, the acquisitive, and the pious.
Sounds about right doesn't it?
At best, he's a liar that's proven in these interviews he insists on doing.
ReplyDeleteAt worst, he's a racist and that's the real reason behind all the truth stretching and ignorant comments in the press.
Either way, he's unacceptable and a political liability.