Barbour Headed to Iowa

By Adam Sorensen | @adamsorensen | February 14, 2011 | +

On the heels of a high-profile speech at CPAC, an appearance on Fox News Sunday and with the press beginning to dig into his lobbying days, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is taking the natural next step:

In another sign that he’s moving toward a presidential bid, Haley Barbour will visit Iowa next month, POLITICO has learned.

The Mississippi governor will keynote a March 15 dinner in Scott County, the first of a year-long series of Iowa Republican Party fundraisers aimed at bolstering county parties.

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Barbour has been to South Carolina twice already this year, but his Scott County appearance will mark his first 2011 visit to Iowa. He last visited the state in October in his capacity as RGA Chairman to rally support for Gov. Terry Branstad.

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nflfoghorn

Will he be the next Fred Thompson?
…aka Pa Rug
http://elvisberg.wordpress.com Elvis Elvisberg

This isn’t anything. It’s way too early to throw reporting about actual goings-on overboard.
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America isn’t going to elect Boss Hogg as president, anyway. That he is visiting a state a year before the primary really doesn’t constitute “news.”
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But it’s easy enough to type, and it gives rise to the fun, meaningless, zero-accountability speculation in lieu of reporting that makes up 95% of the coverage around here.
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Reading Time’s politics coverage actually makes you stupider.
nflfoghorn

“Reading [TIME's] politics coverage without a healthy dose of political skepticism actually makes you stupider”
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Corrected for you.
centfan

True leadership and a vision for the future can only be measured by the number of ribbons cut with the Corn Queen in attendance. I hope Egypt is taking notes… and trying hard to find a Corn Queen.
apr2563

Come and listen to a story about a man named Haley
A poor lobbyist, pol, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin’ crude.

Oil that is, black gold, Mississippi tea.

Well the first thing you know ol’ Haley’s a millionaire,
Kinfolk said Haley move away from there
Said Ioway is the place you ought to be
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Montgomery,
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Hills, that is.
Tea Partiers, Pac money.
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The Haley Hillbiliies.
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He left reluctantly. He had so many fond memories of the quiet, gentile Mississippi of the 50s and 60s.