So Haley Barbour is fixin’ to run for President. In a sane world, his long career as a lobbyists and bagman for our Galtian Overlords would disqualify him out of hand. After all, could a lifetime Washington Insider and bold advocate of fat cats everywhere really win? Maybe. The hotline just moved him up to number three in their horse race for the GOP nomination.
The reason why is simple. The Old Nit Diddler is running in the Republican Confederate Party and as such he is in the mid to low range of crazy when it comes to possible GOP Presidential candidates. Money will flow to him and all he has to do to win any primaries is embrace the clowns from crazy town that make up the base of the Party and pander to them like hell. Haley is embracing the panderfest with gusto. Auto-attacks on everything Obama: check. Attacks on the gays: check. Attacks on the Affordable Care Act: check. Obama is a secret mooslum foreigner: check. If you have a wingnut POV that requires some pandering, it is a safe bet that Haley has some talking point to please your gullible mind.
But attacks alone will not get you elected President. You have to stand for something and Haley is standing on his “record” as a fiscal conservative who knows how to solve problems. As he told CPAC earlier this year:
“Our problem is not that we tax too little, it’s that we spend too much.”
And to prove his skills as an expert on the economy, Barbour points to his record in Mississippi:
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