This is interesting!

Barbour Announces Run for Mississippi Governor
By Jeff Gannon
GOPUSA News
February 19, 2003

YAZOO CITY, MS (GOPUSA News) -- Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour announced that he would be running for governor of Mississippi. The 55 year-old Washington lawyer and lobbyist, who once served as a political advisor to President Ronald Reagan, has decided to return to Mississippi "because I know we can do better."

After one of several speeches around the state, Barbour pointed out, "This state has spent like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors should be offended by the comparison."

Barbour said state government had fallen "from its strongest fiscal condition ever to the worst financial crisis in our state's history." Barbour said his campaign would focus on "prioritizing spending" and fighting "any and all tax increases." He declared that "to raise taxes while government is on a spending binge is only feeding the beast."

Barbour is the first Republican to announce his intention to run against the incumbent Democrat Ronnie Musgrove. If Barbour were to win, he would become only the second Republican elected governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction.

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to the link in your post where the name JEFF GANNON is highlighted in yellow and then ... the intro to your post and your post made a "click" in my brain. ...
Now I am wondering is 2/19/03 prior to Gannon's entering the White House? Is Haley Barbour is conduit or safe passage into the white house? Is the Republican Party Gannon's conduit into the White House? CONNECTIONS! CONNECTIONS! CONNECTIONS! DARN, CONNECTIONS!

I wouldn't be surprised if he and Jim-Jeff-Bulldog have met up in the past. I am trying to find out if GOPUSA announced his bid before the Clarion. I have just been doing a little surfing.

Do you know what is truly scary -- Gov Babar is #23 on possible nominations of 2008!

2008 Presidential Power Rankings- 1/30/05
Republicans
50. Pat Buchanan
49. Alan Keyes
48. Ron Paul
47. Bob Barr
46. Tom Tancredo
45. Dennis Hastert
44. Bill Cohen
43. Rick Perry
42. Frank Keating
41. Ken Blackwell
40. Dirk Kempthorne
39. Colin Powell
38. John Ashcroft
37. Gordon Smith
36. Don Nickles
35. Orrin Hatch
34. Christine Todd Whitman
33. Tom Coburn
32. Steve Forbes
31. Rob Portman
30. John Kasich
29. Dan Quayle
28. J.C. Watts
27. John Engler
26. Tommy Thompson
25. Newt Gingrich
24. Fred Thompson
23. Haley Barbour
22. Tim Pawlenty
21. John Thune
20. Elizabeth Dole
19. Arnold Schwarzenegger
18. Rick Santorum
17. Lindsay Graham
16. Condoleeza Rice
15. Robert Ehrlich
14. Norm Coleman
13. Mark Sanford
12. Chuck Hagel
11. Sam Brownback
10. George Pataki
9. Bill Owens
8. Mitt Romney
7. Tom Ridge
6. Rudy Giuliani
5. John McCain
4. Dick Cheney
3. Bill Frist
2. George Allen
1. Jeb Bush

http://newpolitics1.blogspot.com/2005/02/2008-power-ratings-gop.html

barbour may stand a chance for 2008! but otherwise no. the man is just as plainly a lying repulsive as the bushes are.

facing - the weed's admin is gutting state funding and the states can provide services. The weed will take them all down when the property taxes hit that all time high and when no local services exist!

I hope Mike Moore enters the next Govenor race.

I can't stand Barber. I loathe him -- I actually think Lott is a swell guy compared to him.

IMHO I think Cochran or Lott resigns and opens the seat to Barber -- although Wicker may also run if it opens (although he may not).

Moore has his hands full, the feds have been after him for a while and he is trying to stay out of politics until the climate changes. He won't give up on his Tobacco Fund though, he won't let babar the elephant ruin what he accomplished.