Is Mitt Romney the best of all possible GOP candidates?

Oh, and we need some denouncing, stat: Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, and Haley Barbour, likely presidential aspirants all, have appeared on Bryan Fischer’s radio show.

Needless to say, Forrest is a pretty easy guy to denounce. This was a political gift, in a way, to Barbour. I mean, a white Southern Republican like Barbour could get himself into some trouble for denouncing, say, Robert E. Lee. But Forrest? Is Barbour really that worried about losing the white supremacist vote?

Haley “Jim Crow Mississippi Wasn’t That Bad” Barbour was on Faux News Sunday this morning defending his wingnut credentials in the wake of his poor performance in the CPAC straw poll — and this slipped out.

Why is everyone making such a fuss about Haley Barbour’s comment that life in his home state “wasn’t that bad” during the Jim Crow era? During Barbour’s teen years, Mississippi was a perfectly fine place to grow up

It’s a slow news day, so I might as well join the chorus in talking about Haley Barbour’s revisionist history. He claims that Yazoo City, Mississippi, his hometown, was an island of indifference amid a sea of racial intolerance in the Deep South.

The Democrats have a winning argument with their push to get Republicans to come clean about foreign donations to GOP allies such as the Chamber of Commerce. How do we know this? Because the GOP/Media Complex says that it isn’t and is doing all it can to trick the Democrats into dropping it.

The Republican governor of Mississippi, who previously said the BP oil disaster was being overblown by the liberal media, was asked by NPR if all of the damage and destruction and deaths have caused him to reconsider his “smaller government, less regulation, more freedom for industry” ideology.

In spite of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s initial happy talk (Oil? What Oil? Press Should Stop Scaring Tourists), BP Oil finally and inevitably hits his state’s coastline. Now guess who’s crying for help?

Spending time in Jackson, Mississippi drives home the true cost of government in the Haley Barbour mode, where investment in infrastructure is frowned upon.