http://larison.org/2006/11/13/the-wrong-lessons/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:28:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://larison.org/2006/11/13/the-wrong-lessons/#comment-5062 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:20:57 +0000 http://larison.org/2006/11/13/the-wrong-lessons/#comment-5062 Continued: But all actual governors strike me as unlikely: Romney, Pataki, Daniels, and Pawlenty for the reasons mentioned, and Huckabee, from what I know of him, seems like big-government (but pro-immigration) conservatism at its worst. Wasn't Bill Owens being touted by NR as "America's best governor" a couple years ago? What happened to him? Mark Sanford was in Congress in 2002 and did vote for the war, but he seems like an interesting character. I think we can safely say that it will not be the governor of Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Idaho, Alaska, or Hawaii. What other states have Republican governors? Georgia's governor is named "Sonny," Alabama's governor raised taxes, and Mississippi's - hmm. I'm not going to committ to this as an actual prediction, but a Haley Barbour candidacy is far from unthinkable. He chaired the RNC during the 1994 takeover and he was thought to have responded fairly well to Katrina, but his Council of Conservative Citizens connections will be a major negative in the media. Continued: But all actual governors strike me as unlikely: Romney, Pataki, Daniels, and Pawlenty for the reasons mentioned, and Huckabee, from what I know of him, seems like big-government (but pro-immigration) conservatism at its worst. Wasn’t Bill Owens being touted by NR as “America’s best governor” a couple years ago? What happened to him? Mark Sanford was in Congress in 2002 and did vote for the war, but he seems like an interesting character. I think we can safely say that it will not be the governor of Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Idaho, Alaska, or Hawaii. What other states have Republican governors? Georgia’s governor is named “Sonny,” Alabama’s governor raised taxes, and Mississippi’s - hmm. I’m not going to committ to this as an actual prediction, but a Haley Barbour candidacy is far from unthinkable. He chaired the RNC during the 1994 takeover and he was thought to have responded fairly well to Katrina, but his Council of Conservative Citizens connections will be a major negative in the media.

]]> http://larison.org/2006/11/13/the-wrong-lessons/#comment-5061 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:11:10 +0000 http://larison.org/2006/11/13/the-wrong-lessons/#comment-5061 I agree that the next nominee will be a governor because a) nominees almost always are governors lately and b) a governor will not have the taint of having actually voted for the Iraq War resolution, although of course any plausible Republican nominee probably would have voted for the resolution had he been in Congress in 2002. I agree that the next nominee will be a governor because a) nominees almost always are governors lately and b) a governor will not have the taint of having actually voted for the Iraq War resolution, although of course any plausible Republican nominee probably would have voted for the resolution had he been in Congress in 2002.

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