The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 9/24/8
When Gov. Haley Barbour first ran for governor in 2003, he bragged of his close relationship with President George Bush.
Barbour was being truthful. When Bush was preparing to run for president, Barbour, then a powerful Washington, D.C., lobbyist, former political director in the Ronald Reagan White House and former chair of the Republican National Committee, was a key adviser and fund-raiser.
No doubt, the relationship between Bush and Barbour has stayed strong through the years and that has most likely benefitted Mississippi.
In recent years, Southerners, such as Bush, Barbour, Trent Lott, Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove and others, have held tremendous sway in the Republican Party and thus the nation. In many real ways, Southerners have been the most dominant force in the Republican Party.
That may be changing.
Magnolia Tribune
