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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s Wife ‘Horrified’ By Potential 2012 Candidacy

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Well, this is reassuring. In an interview with local CNN affiliate WLOX, Marsha Barbour, the wife of Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, described her position on whispers of a potential presidential run for her husband as “horrified” and called the prospect “overwhelming,” especially since his political career has already been a “sacrifice.”

While Mississippi’s First Lady said in the interview she was fully prepared to support her husband, the rest of her statements don’t make her sound too keen on the idea of making a run for the top job, or, worse, actually winning:

The wife of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says she is “horrified” that her husband is seriously considering a bid for the presidency.

In an interview with CNN affiliate WLOX in Biloxi, Marsha Barbour admitted the “overwhelming” task of a presidential run is something she may not quite be ready for.

“It’s been a lot to be first lady of the state of Mississippi and this would be 50 times bigger,” she said. “It’s a huge sacrifice for a family to make.” [...]

But Marsha Barbour revealed she is wary of a 10-year commitment she believes would accompany a presidential run – and, presumably, two terms in office – during “the last part of our productive lives.”

The sacrifices of touring the country and taking on a campaign to be the most powerful person in the world are nothing to scoff at, though this sort of candor from potential candidates’ families in public is rather rare. In the interview, Marsha Barbour noted that she was doing plenty of praying on the matter and would ultimately support her husband despite her hesitation, but while it’s too early to tell, one can expect this to factor into Barbour’s decision-making process before announcing whether he will run.

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  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    after witnessing what the Palin family (and even Hillary’s) went through, why wouldn’t she be horrified?

  • Barack Must Go

    Well that’s that. Haley Barbour’s not running.

  • TfT

    It’s not the touring and the campaigning that is horrifying to her; it is the knowledge that the liberal mainstream/lamestream media will attack, slander, dig dirt, lie, cheat and steal from the Barbour family in order to defend, protect, and campaign for hehimself.

    Never in the history of our nation has the media been so inept at vetting both candidates; never in the history of this nation has the media so abdicated its responsibilities.

    Any independent or conservative candidate who is considering seeking high office in this country is horrified at what the US media will do to them and their family. The days of the media pretending to be fair, honest, balanced, and truth seekers/speakers are long gone….and they all know it.

  • BlueBunny

    TfT said:
    Any independent or conservative candidate who is considering seeking high office in this country is horrified at what the US media will do to them and their family.

    MORE LIKE THEY ARE AFRAID OF WHAT SKELETONS MIGHT COME OUT OF THEIR CLOSETS!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tucker-Peterson/721293033 Tucker Peterson

    The good news for her is . It won’t last too long !

  • felixw

    Why would a family member of a possible Republican candidate have anything to fear? There’s no reason for concern….well, except for Republican candidate’s getting their email accounts hacked, having their children ridiculed in the press, finding that a spy has moved in next door, getting called a c–t by Bill Maher, having phony rumors of pregnancies and marital infidelities bandied about the press, learning that dozens of investigators have arrived in your home town to dig up any dirt they can find, and inventing if they can’t find anything, getting accused of causing murders in the state of Arizona on the basis of zero evidence, getting vilified every ten minutes on MSNBC during prime time, having George Soros set his team of hacks to work issuing daily press releases denouncing you, getting spelling errors in your tweets turned into lead stores in the liberal press, etc. etc. etc.

  • Jayson

    felixw said:
    Why would a family member of a possible Republican candidate have anything to fear? There’s no reason for concern….well, except for Republican candidate’s getting their email accounts hacked, having their children ridiculed in the press, finding that a spy has moved in next door, getting called a c–t by Bill Maher, having phony rumors of pregnancies and marital infidelities bandied about the press, learning that dozens of investigators have arrived in your home town to dig up any dirt they can find, and inventing if they can’t find anything, getting accused of causing murders in the state of Arizona on the basis of zero evidence, getting vilified every ten minutes on MSNBC during prime time, having George Soros set his team of hacks to work issuing daily press releases denouncing you, getting spelling errors in your tweets turned into lead stores in the liberal press, etc. etc. etc.

    Awww, are you upset about your widdle Sarah Ps treatement? Tsk tsk..

    Sorry pal, if you go out of your way to be in the limelight, expose your family to that limelight constantly, act like a foolish bumpkin, talk like a foolish bumpkin, then be prepared to take the backlash.

  • Tedderman

    Translation: He won’t make nearly as much money as president as he would resuming his lucrative career as a lobbyist.

  • Gasket

    Why would a family member of a possible Democratic candidate have anything to fear? There’s no reason for concern….well, except for Democratic candidate’s getting their email accounts hacked, or subjected to frivolous FOIA requests if working for a public institution in efforts to intimidate, having their family ridiculed in the press, getting called a Muslim, communist, marxist, racist, terrorist, Hitler, Stalin, Imam, a “boy”, a “man-child, un-American, a foreigner, a Kenyan, an Indonesian, a suicide-bomber in chief, an Arab, the anti-christ, a socialist, a super-negro, a ni$$er, an affirmative action candidate (even though you would wind up with the highest popular vote tally for a single candidate in the history of the nation,) a libtard, a manchurian candidate, an empty suit, the messiah, the squirrel, a left wing extremist, being told you were not born in the country, your official and iron-clad proofed BC questioned, your parents, both who had PHDs called hippies and “crazy”, your wife called a Marie Antoinette, called an aunt Jemimah, called a Stokely Carmichael, called “an angry black woman” or that — she’s always “angry”, she’s called fat, ugly, a silverback, also called stupid even though she is an Ivy league schooled lawyer, called anti-American, a racist, her initiatives called socialist plots, your children mocked by radio blowhards, having phony rumors of a marital infidelity propagated by the press, learning that dozens of investigators have dispatched all over the world to find out where you were really born or find nefarious associations to “prove” you really are a Muslim or non-American, getting accused of destabilizing and “wrecking” the economy when you have done the exact opposite having inherited the worst economy since the depression and are currently enjoying 13 straight months of job growth, to dig up any dirt they can find, and inventing if they can’t find anything, getting accused of intentionally destabilizing the world and the country on the basis of zero evidence, getting vilified every ten minutes on FOX News during prime time and on their “straight news” programs, having the Koch brothers set their team of hacks, astroturf groups and other shadowy organizations to work daily — issuing press releases, denouncing you, getting mocked for using a teleprompter that every potus since Reagan has been using regularly — a ploy to “prove” to the public that your oratory skills are just superficial, even though you have engaged in more ad hoc conversations with the press and the public than George W. Bush did during his entire presidency and still mopped the floor with them, a journalist asking you, a sitting US President in front of over 100 million people “why do people hate you”……etc etc… etc. etc. etc.

  • felixw

    Jayson said:
    Awww, are you upset about your widdle Sarah Ps treatement? Tsk tsk..

    Sorry pal, if you go out of your way to be in the limelight, expose your family to that limelight constantly, act like a foolish bumpkin, talk like a foolish bumpkin, then be prepared to take the backlash.

    Note that in the media’s various responses to Sarah Palin, rebutting her call for fiscal responsibility and government accountability plays no part. The media smears her, but cannot refute her argument that we need a major overhaul of our broken government. So it’s easy to see who comes out looking good here. On one side, a public figure courageously offers solutions, the other side merely slings mud.

    And your comment, Jayson, is more of the same. Tired old liberal whining and ranting without a shred of intelligent discourse. If you like big, bloated government, give us reasons to continue borrowing $4 billion more EACH DAY from the Chinese. And if you can’t give reasons, spare us hot air. Other people have real solutions — step aside and let them fix the mess your side has created.

  • captaingrumpy

    Who the hell is this bitch ??????
    There is only ONE REASON a millionaire would run for office……….MONEY
    If you are not a millionaire when you enter Congress,I bet you are when you leave.FACT.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    felixw said:
    Note that in the media’s various responses to Sarah Palin, rebutting her call for fiscal responsibility and government accountability plays no part. The media smears her, but cannot refute her argument that we need a major overhaul of our broken government. So it’s easy to see who comes out looking good here. On one side, a public figure courageously offers solutions, the other side merely slings mud.

    And your comment, Jayson, is more of the same. Tired old liberal whining and ranting without a shred of intelligent discourse. If you like big, bloated government, give us reasons to continue borrowing $4 billion more EACH DAY from the Chinese. And if you can’t give reasons, spare us hot air. Other people have real solutions — step aside and let them fix the mess your side has created.

    $arah has yet to offer one (1) positive step she thinks we should take to recover from the recession. WHAT solution are you talking about?
    And, as this thread is about “Heyyou” Barbour’s wife, and not $arah, Why should we expect the number one (1) lobbyist in Washington to change the system that made him millions?

  • felixw

    Joseph Glackin said:
    $arah has yet to offer one (1) positive step she thinks we should take to recover from the recession. WHAT solution are you talking about?
    And, as this thread is about “Heyyou” Barbour’s wife, and not $arah, Why should we expect the number one (1) lobbyist in Washington to change the system that made him millions?

    Here, let me whisper Palin’s agenda in your ear. Now listen carefully, because it’s hard for your liberals to understand these kind of concepts.

    Are you ready?

    Are you sure?

    Okay, listen carefully, here it comes….

    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!

    Now, what part of that didn’t you understand?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    felixw said:
    Here, let me whisper Palin’s agenda in your ear. Now listen carefully, because it’s hard for your liberals to understand these kind of concepts.

    Are you ready?

    Are you sure?

    Okay, listen carefully, here it comes….

    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!
    CUT SPENDING!

    Now, what part of that didn’t you understand?

    WHERE!
    WHERE!
    WHERE!
    etc.
    That’s not a program, that’s a bumper sticker.
    And the attention span of teabaggers and reactionaries.

  • felixw

    Joseph Glackin said:
    WHERE!
    WHERE!
    WHERE!
    etc.
    That’s not a program, that’s a bumper sticker.
    And the attention span of teabaggers and reactionaries.

    The Republicans have tens of billions of spending cuts on the table. Or don’t you follow the news? I don’t blame you. You probably watch MSNBC, the news network where all important stories are buried. But there is budget debate going on. I suggest you read up on it, and come back better informed next time.

  • The Tea Weasel®

    felixw said:
    The Republicans have tens of billions of spending cuts on the table. Or don’t you follow the news? I don’t blame you. You probably watch MSNBC, the news network where all important stories are buried. But there is budget debate going on. I suggest you read up on it, and come back better informed next time.

    Better find HUNDREDS of BILLIONS. Most of the TENS of BILLIONS come from education, environment, health care, you know, petty ante things. I want to see a republican say he is willing to cut social security and medicaid…..

  • Tedderman

    No Feelix, we’re well aware that repugs want us to cut 30 billion+ from the budget. But this is being done solely to appease the tea-baggers. These cuts will prove to be counter-productive, attacking school children, head start programs, reduce pell grants and hurt the elderly. Additionally these cuts will slow the economy and cost 700,000 jobs.
    But there’s good news, there’s 70 billion of waste and fraud in the defense department that could be found and fixed this year. But Repubs refuse to allow the Pentagons budget to even be looked at for any reason. Oh, and I learned all this on MSNBC,…..you dumb-ass!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    felixw said:
    The Republicans have tens of billions of spending cuts on the table. Or don’t you follow the news? I don’t blame you. You probably watch MSNBC, the news network where all important stories are buried. But there is budget debate going on. I suggest you read up on it, and come back better informed next time.

    My turn to p!ss in your ear. I was asking for YOU to provide budget cuts being proposed by $ARAH!, not by the House or F#X. You know, that “Palin agenda” you were touting?
    Some other cat got your tongue, Feelicks?

  • Gasket

    felixw said:
    The Republicans have tens of billions of spending cuts on the table. Or don’t you follow the news? I don’t blame you. You probably watch MSNBC, the news network where all important stories are buried. But there is budget debate going on. I suggest you read up on it, and come back better informed next time.

    What? 50-60 billion dollars (basically just vindictive targeting of liberal pet projects) from a 3.6 trillion federal dollar budget? Hahaha….you people are dumb….so dumb — you believe your own lies and platitudes. If you people had balls and actually wanted to cut spending you would cut the military, medicare and SS funding by 1/2, and sunset the entire Bush tax cuts. Of course you can’t, because you are demagoging squeaky parrots.

  • felixw

    Joseph Glackin said:
    My turn to p!ss in your ear. I was asking for YOU to provide budget cuts being proposed by $ARAH!, not by the House or F#X. You know, that “Palin agenda” you were touting?
    Some other cat got your tongue, Feelicks?

    You are so ignorant, I can hardly believe it. Palin has endorsed Rand Paul’s detailed plan to cut Federal spending by $500 billion. In contrast, Obama has offered to cut spending by $6 billion.

    Are you really so ill-informed, that you don’t understand the difference between the Republican and Democrat approach to spending? Or do you just pretend to be that ignorant?

  • felixw

    Any other liberals who want to pretend that the Republicans aren’t serious about spending cuts are invited to read this article.

    GOP Budget Plan to Cut More Than $4 Trillion Over Decade

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/03/gop-budget-plan-cut-4-trillion-decade-ryan-says/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Another press release from the GOP’s “Pravda” or “isvestia”?

    the Russian people used to say, “There is no “Pravda” (truth) in Isvestia (news), and there is no “Isvestia” in Pravda.
    Newscrap just manages to put neither in one network.
    Ryan has proposed a red-meat plan he knows will never pass to appease the hooples and the yeabaggers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    OOPS!
    “teabaggers”
    Not enough coffee.

  • felixw

    Joseph Glackin said:
    Another press release from the GOP’s “Pravda” or “isvestia”?

    the Russian people used to say, “There is no “Pravda” (truth) in Isvestia (news), and there is no “Isvestia” in Pravda.
    Newscrap just manages to put neither in one network.
    Ryan has proposed a red-meat plan he knows will never pass to appease the hooples and the yeabaggers.

    You change your tune from minute to minute. At first you claim Republicans don’t have a plan to cut spending. But when I show you one, you NOW change your position to claiming the plan doesn’t have votes to pass.

    But the only reason it won’t pass is because liberals like you want to spend borrowed money until the nation goes bankrupt.

    So now that we have agreed on something, you are invited to look in the mirror to find the root of the problem. And it doesn’t look like Sarah Palin any more, does it?

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