Monday, April 25, 2011

Barbour Is Out

Haley Barbour is not running for President.

Hmmmm... not sure what to make of this. People seemed to think that Barbour would have been a heavy-hitter had he jumped in, but a white southern governor with heavy ties to lobbyists would have come with all the usual baggage- and although he had gained prominence for his response to Hurricane Katrina and, I believe a stint as the head of the Republican Governor's Association he did not have a wide national profile.

This should add some more definition to a race that's becoming damn hard to get a grip on- though that's probably a good thing a million months away from the Iowa Caucuses. My initial instinct is to say that this seems like cautiously good news for Tim Pawlenty. Next question: what is Sarah Palin going to do?

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