The CoCC and Haley Barbour



Well, look who's hanging with the lovely Council of Conservative Citizens. Haley Barbour is seen yucking it up with this despicable band of racists. He claims not to know anything about the group. Whatever. I suppose he will claim that he knows nothing of the confederate flag he has pasted on his lapel pin either. (Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the pointer.) I realize there are many who say that Roy Barnes lost his governorship over the flag issue but that's myopic and ignores the greater Republican trend in GA. Barnes didn't lose because of the flag controversy. He lost because he was a crappy governor. The democrats are sure to jump on this as further proof of the innate racism of Republicans. So the question is this: Is Barbour really a racist or is he merely pandering to these kind of loathsome figures for his slice of the bigot vote? Neither answer is very flattering. And neither points to the kind of judgment I would expect from an elected representative.

Posted: Thu - October 16, 2003 at 11:44 AM      

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