This is bad for him.
Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), a potential presidential candidate, appears to have marked a line in the sand for an expected presidential run sure to be dogged by the politics of race and the legacy of the Civil Rights Era in his state. Asked by reporters today in Jackson, Mississippi, Barbour not only refused to denounce efforts by some to create a license plate honoring Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest. He said he was out of the denouncing business altogether.
"I don't go around denouncing people," said Barbour, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. "That's not going to happen. I don't even denounce the news media."
Barbour also added: "I know there's not a chance it'll become law."
Yeah, great excuse. "I don't denounce anything at all anymore, and I don't need to this time." Great one Haley. Governor Barbour is a very gifted politician, with quite a bit of ability to connect with a segment of America. Unfortunately for him, these kinds of events make him less and less viable on a national level. I mean, the Governor who doesn't denounce white "citizen councils" and the founder of the Klan, against the First African-American President? Mismatch.
This is bad for him. 
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