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That Should Go Over Great

by Josh Marshall
02.14.11 | 7:26 am
Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS)

I already put Haley Barbour firmly in the fantasy campaign ranks of 2012 presidential candidates. But news that as a DC lobbyist he lobbied on behalf of the Mexican government for what conservatives call “amnesty” should push him even further into the fantasy ranks on the primary side.

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