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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is privately meeting with advisers to consider a possible run for president in 2012, online news site Politico reports Friday.
Barbour, who also chairs the Republican Governor’s Association, apparently concluded after the meeting that he “did not need to make a decision now and that the group should meet again after this fall’s election.” His focus, he says, will remain on electing Republican governors across the country.
From Politico:
It’s good politics, of course, to say you’re only focused on helping others win at the moment – but Barbour’s closest advisers say the one-game-at-at-time approach isn’t just boilerplate rhetoric. The former linebacker and state party executive director, they say, truly buys into it.
“That’s where his head is right now,” said Henry Barbour, the governor’s nephew and former campaign manager. “If we’re going to stop the stuff President Obama and Speaker Pelosi are trying to do we need to win some games in November. You don’t focus on the team you’re playing the following week.”
Last summer, Barbour visited Iowa and delivered the keynote speech at a Republican Party of Iowa fundraiser. His visit sparked controversy, though, after he told the crowd of GOP activists and elected officials that they must reject calls for ideological purity, saying “There are tens of millions of pro-choice Republicans that are just as good Republicans as I am, and we need to support them. That’s what party building is about, and don’t think that is giving up your principles.”
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