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Barbour Replaces Sanford As GOP’s Latest 2012 Hopeful Who Will Be Smote By Romney

Sleep with one eye openHmm, so that important meeting that Haley Barbour had with assorted Washington fancies on Monday night … folks thought it was all just prelude to a 2012 run, but might it have had something to do with the whole Sanford affair? Because now Barbour is the new head of the Republican Governors Association — at least, until he confesses to an illicit romantical affair with a South American canasta champion.

That was fast: The Republican Governors Association just announced that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour — already “in line” to take the chairmanship of the RGA — has assumed it.

“As a former RNC chairman and one of the best governors in the country, no one is better positioned to takeover as RGA chairman than Governor Barbour,” executive director Nick Ayers said in a statement.

The folks that Barbour met with on Monday were NOT members of the RGA, but whatever. The point is that whenever Republicans have a secret meeting, it’s to talk about who will do the cleanup following the latest sex affair confession. Eventually, the only Republican eligible to run against President Obama in 2012 will be the one with no known sex organs (Mitt).

Barbour takes over RGA [Ben Smith]


4:09 PM on Wed June 24 2009
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. Tommmcatt says at 4:11 pm, June 24th, 2009

    I think the RGA is safe with Barbour…because let’s face it, not even a prostitute would fuck that.

  2. ALIVE! says at 4:12 pm, June 24th, 2009

    I just saw a picture of Barbour being carried, along with his identical twin brother, by Mark Sanford. Confused.

  3. rambone says at 4:12 pm, June 24th, 2009

    We need to hip hop the RGA! Place Michael Steele in charge of everything, I say!

  4. Crazybroad says at 4:12 pm, June 24th, 2009

    SarahPAC is arranging for a five-diamond whore to be send to Barbour’s house as a congratulations present as we speak.

  5. 4tehlulz says at 4:14 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Mr. Barbour will then disappear for a week, only to turn up on Perfect Ladyboys.

  6. Extemporanus says at 4:14 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Babar’s first name is “Haley?”

    That doesn’t sound very French.

  7. pedestrian rage says at 4:14 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Look everybody! The Rs put a puffy white southern fella in charge. Who could’ve seen that coming?

  8. Autochthon says at 4:15 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Dang, the RGA is now headed by Baron Harkonnen? His being governor of Mississippi is a mighty nice touch, too…

  9. Jamie Sommers says at 4:16 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Tommmcatt: Agreed. There is no crack whore that desperate for a fix, no Russian girl wanting to come to America that badly, no Thai boy that afraid of his pimp.

  10. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 4:17 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Tommmcatt: Well, maybe not female prostitutes. I’m not saying anything, but…

  11. CthuNHu says at 4:17 pm, June 24th, 2009

    He’s selling $500/plate rubber chicken in New Hampshire today, but he ain’t all that welcome:

    http://www.bluehampshire.com/diary/7616/welcome-to-macaca-country

    Fun with Google: watermelon + Barbour

  12. choinski says at 4:18 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Let us crown the one fated to loose completely and fully in 2012!

  13. slappypaddy says at 4:19 pm, June 24th, 2009

    GOP these days reminds me of Sove Union in its last years as it tottered to collapse and trotted out tottering leader after etc., all of whom (possible exception Gorbachev) were eminently unfuckable and doomed soon to die.

    Are recalcitrant Confederates all the GOP has left to offer? Stick a fork in it, it’s done.

  14. Luckily, the RGA has a full line-up of losers to replace defunct heads.

  15. Autochthon says at 4:20 pm, June 24th, 2009

    pedestrian rage: Jus’ call ‘im “Big Daddy”…

  16. thejesusandmarycheney says at 4:22 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Ayers, eh? HUMMM ARE THEY BROTHERS

  17. P Drizzle says at 4:22 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Haley’s a solid replacement: he’d rather fuck a hog than set foot in once-commie country.

    Aw hell, he’d just rather fuck a hog.

  18. Tommmcatt says at 4:22 pm, June 24th, 2009

    queeraselvis v 2.0:

    Hustlers just wouldn’t be able to find the hole.

  19. Autochthon: Can’t wait to see him floating around a press conference in the near future. Heart-plugs for all!

  20. rocktonsammy says at 4:25 pm, June 24th, 2009

    You know nobodys fucking Haley.

    Finally someone we can trust.

  21. Tybalt says at 4:25 pm, June 24th, 2009

    MITT ROMNEY DOES NOT REQUIRE “SEX” ORGANS. MITT ROMNEY REPRODUCES BY SPONTANEOUS FISSION. END TRANSMISSION.

  22. 19kevin8 says at 4:25 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Romney doesn’t need sex organs to smoke Barbour’s pole.

  23. Hopetarded says at 4:28 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Haley Barbour: A man who presses [1] for English when he calls the sexy phone sex lines.

  24. spalding says at 4:29 pm, June 24th, 2009

    And the Republicans continue to move farther and farther south.

  25. blackdontcrack says at 4:30 pm, June 24th, 2009

    haha! The awful librul media has tracked down Gov Sanfords match.com hookup in Bs As.

    “The woman declined to talk to a reporter. The doorman at the building, shown a photograph of Sanford, said he did not recognize him.”

    That’s SO true! No one ever looks like their online photo.

    http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html

  26. PerhapsSo says at 4:31 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Can we get a Mitt fudge photo, por favor?

  27. Hooray For Anything says at 4:31 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Another old, Southern White Guy? Have the Republicans run out of minorities and women already?

  28. 19kevin8 says at 4:31 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Seeing as the Republicans have almost batted around, does this mean Jindal will be trotted out again as the “next Reagan”?

  29. DagNabbit says at 4:34 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Smittens?

  30. problemwithcaring says at 4:35 pm, June 24th, 2009

    One of the best governors in the country? Is that like saying you have the most distinguished online degrees?

  31. Airborne Toxic Event says at 4:35 pm, June 24th, 2009

    In a related note, Sarah Palin was recently spotted in Santa Cruz at an Indigo Girls concert.

  32. SayItWithWookies says at 4:39 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Barbour is the Boss Hogg of the Republican party — and not just because of the physical resemblance. He’s also got his fingers in every little bit of corruption he can possibly find. This is like putting Henry VIII in charge of a reformation.

  33. A Better American Than YOU says at 4:41 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Oooooh, Haley Barbour. Now that does bring a fresh breath of excitement.

  34. Come here a minute says at 4:43 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Canasta! Yipee, hope she’s playing castanets too!

  35. FormerDCite says at 4:46 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Gov. Barbour, isn’t he the one in “Return of the Jedi”? You know the one with Princess Leah chained to his throne.

  36. Tennesseans love Mississippi. It gives us someone to look down on, when the fog rises off the Mississippi River, and we can’t see Arkansas.

  37. Vanity Smurf says at 4:50 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Tommmcatt: Find a fold and fuck it.

  38. desertwind says at 5:10 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Haley’s lookin’ good. Has he lost weight?

  39. HAILYE IS AN ETHIOPIAN NAME, WERES YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE BARBUR!?!

  40. WadISay says at 5:28 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Similarly, according to the movie, Rose deWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson were, for about 1 second, the last captains of the Titanic.

  41. SayItWithWookies says at 5:29 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Here’s a little rundown of Boss Hogg’s accomplishments — at least until 2007:
    http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/giuliani-barbour/

  42. WadISay says at 5:43 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Straight Latina Female, married with kids.
    Looking to meet: Republican Governor of Red State Hellhole.
    Turn-ons: Getting career advice, 5 day sobbing make-out sessions, long-distance relationships, hypocricy, “sparking”, dressing like a boy and exclaiming, “You’re my daddy now!”
    Turn-offs: Hiking.

  43. Sorry if this has been said already, but who the fuck cares if he steps down from some governor’s association. Let’s see some steppin’ down as governor. Hey, Spitzer was man enough to do it, and those were just prostitutes, not “dear dear friends”

  44. TeddyS says at 5:49 pm, June 24th, 2009

    The State newspaper had the explicit sexytime emails in December. Aggressive journalism.

    Governor Sanford has now apologized to everyone but the entire citizenry of the United States. Why does Mark Sanford hate America?

  45. Eh, Barbour will only have luck with prostitutes. Or young boys

  46. AxmxZ: Haley is a girl’s name, also.

  47. ALIVE!: You’re not thinking of the famous front-butt pixxx with all the furries around looking sad are you? If you have no idea what I’m talking about, just watch Wonkette for 6 weeks and the image will eventually fall into the rotation.

  48. pdiddycornchips says at 5:57 pm, June 24th, 2009

    Haley Barbour appeals to evangelical white southerners while the rest of the country recoils in horror. Putting this guy in charge makes sense only if the south is planning to repeat the 1860’s. I know how nostalgic the crackers get about that particular period in US history but did they really forget how it ended?

  49. Can O Whoopass says at 6:09 pm, June 24th, 2009

    The GOP is safe with Barbour… because, not even Bristol Palin or Newt or Darth would fuck that lardassed piece of shit .

  50. bitchincamaro says at 6:16 pm, June 24th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: “Haley Barbour is to Katrina what Rudy Giuliani was to 9/11.” Well, that just about says it all.

  51. Bruno: The first time I saw that image and the comments that followed, I was in tears from laughing so hard, yet trying to keep it in. Which is fine when sitting in your own office, not so when sitting at a sushi bar @ lunch looking at your SmartPhone…

  52. lazynamepicker says at 10:54 pm, June 24th, 2009

    The Klan robe in Barbour’s closet will be revealed soon enough.

  53. artbot2000 says at 12:03 am, June 25th, 2009

    Tommmcatt:
    Just roll him in flour and aim for the wet spot.

  54. Jukesgrrl says at 1:07 am, June 25th, 2009

    As Maggie said to Brick, “Git that no-neck monster out of here.”

  55. Dolmance says at 1:20 pm, July 1st, 2009

    You know, the Republicans can be divided up into various factions. Haley Barbour is a part of the Southern wing of the Foghorn Leghorn faction. The Foghorn Leghorn faction is a very common variety and they have nothing new to say - God, Guns and Lethal Injections, is about it. And there’s nothing new in that.

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