While nobody in the governor’s re-election campaign is talking about it for public consumption, there’s no question that the topic of a possible historic Republican sweep of all eight statewide offices in the 2007 general election is on their minds.
To be sure, Gov Haley Barbour’s first concern is his own re-election bid and his second one is the outcome of the lieutenant governor’s and state legislative races. After a first term in which Barbour held tacit control of the state Senate, he knows better than most the stakes of those races for him in a second term.
But once a Republican National Committee chairman, always an RNC chairman. Barbour has to be thinking about his own political legacy in Mississippi. The late Kirk Fordice will always be remembered as the Republican who kicked down the door of Democratic Party domination of the Governor’s Mansion since Reconstruction.
Magnolia Tribune
