Marian Said:

The new Chairman of the RGA is Haley Barbour? Do republicans even think before making decisions?

We Answered:

Republicans just don't care who the step on or use. While I was checking his background I found some info that makes him even lower in my opinion:

In 1982, Barbour was the Republican candidate for United States Senate but lost to incumbent Democrat John C. Stennis.[3] During this failed bid for Senator a controversy arose at a campaigning stump. According to The New York Times, in the presence of the press an aide was complaining to Barbour that "coons" were going to be at a campaign stop at the state fair. Barbour warned the aide, in front of reporters, that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be "reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks."[4]

Barbour has been accused of personally profiting from Hurricane Katrina recovery.[45] Barbour is an owner of the parent company of lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers Inc., and he receives a pension and profit-sharing plan benefits from it.[45] The lobbying firm has lobbied the state to give recovery contracts to its clients.[45] Some of the proceeds of the firm's lobbying activities are deposited into Barbour's investment account.[45] According to Barbour's attorney, a blind trust executed in 2004 prevents Barbour knowing the composition of his investments in order to eliminate any conflicts of interest.[45]

Barbour has also received criticism for his refusal to approve a bill to increase the cigarette tax and decrease the grocery tax passed the state House of Representatives. Mississippi currently has the third-lowest cigarette tax and the highest grocery tax—while being the poorest state in the country. Barbour stated that the lack of revenue generated after the tax swap would quite possibly result in bankrupting the state government which was already fragile due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The House of Representatives could produce no figures to dispute this assertion. Also, in his successful 2004 campaign, Barbour ran on the platform that he would veto any tax increase.[46] The criticism was compounded by the fact that he broke his anti-tax pledge by advocating higher hospital bed taxes.[47]

Fred Thompson's campaign finance investigation found that Barbour, as RNC chair, was involved in illegally raising money from overseas sources.[48]

In September 2008, Democrats accused Barbour of trying to influence the outcome of the 2008 Senate race by placing the candidates at the bottom of the ballot. Since Mississippi electoral law mandates the placing of federal elections at the top of the ballot, Barbour was ordered by a circuit court to comply with the ballot laws.[49]

In 1991, Barbour helped found Barbour & Rogers, LLC[5], a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm, with Ed Rogers, a lawyer who formerly worked in the George H. W. Bush administration. In 1994, Lanny Griffith (also a former Bush Administration appointee) joined the firm to form Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, LLC. In 1998, Fortune magazine named Barbour Griffith & Rogers the second-most-powerful lobbying firm in America.[6] In 2001, after the inauguration of George W. Bush, Fortune named it the most powerful.[7] The firm has made millions of dollars lobbying on behalf of the tobacco industry.[8]

2003 campaign
Main article: Mississippi gubernatorial election, 2003
After two decades in Washington, D.C., Barbour announced in 2003 his intention to run for governor of Mississippi. On August 5, 2003, he won the Republican gubernatorial primary over Canton trial attorney Mitch Tyner. Barbour's campaign manager was his nephew Henry Barbour.

During the campaign a controversy arose when Barbour chose to speak at the Blackhawk Rally, a fundraiser for the Blackhawk "council school" in Blackhawk, Mississippi. Such "council schools", also referred to in Mississippi lexicon as "academies", were established by the White Citizens' Council movement in reaction to the demands for racial integration by the American Civil Rights movement. The Blackhawk rally was hosted by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC or CofCC). The key element of Citizens' Councils has traditionally been opposition to racial integration in public schools.

Dean Said:

Will Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine become Obama's VP?

We Answered:

if he does, i think it'll work to obama's advantage

winning virginia in the GE would really cripple republicans (haha)

but i guess you'll just have to keep tuning in eh.

Ramona Said:

Experienced candidates? I guess I just don't understand this.?

We Answered:

Simply answered, no by most on here. There are a few who ask and answer intelligently.

Pearl Said:

I am going to take a final on the July 10 and i already answer 115 questions. All i need 85 questions?

We Answered:

I'm afraid I don't know.