[hinckley buzzard]

Damn shame. Barbour was an effective politician for our side once. Now he seems to have gone completely over to the dark side. Oh well, let his children pay for his sins, not us.

[Nextrush]

I remember Haley on the floor of the 1976 GOP convention as a Ford operative keeping the Mississippi delegates in line with the liberal Ford and away from Ronald Reagan.

Haley Barbour always was a liberal GOPe guy...always was....

[BlackElk]

Would you disagree with the following?: In the beginning there was Clarke Reed (who incredibly is apparently still alive) and he was the MISSISSIPPI "conservative" boss who was going to lead the GOP to the MISSISSIPPI Promised Land. Whenever Ronald Reagan ran for POTUS, he could count on Clarke for a lot of nice words before Clarke would backstab Reagan for the GOP Ruling Class and for the lobbying money it had to offer.

In later years, Clarke Reed was replaced by Haley Boss Hogg Barbour as the chief perp of corruption in the MISSISSIPPI GOP. As history caught up with Clarke Reed, so history is now catching up with Haley Barbour.

Was there any substantial investigation of what motivated Haley to pardon so very many prisoners and others at the very end of his gubernatorial career? It seemed so Clintonesque. It made me wonder about the then going rate for pardons.