Why?

Why is it that Republican candidates who are in their 30's, 40's, and 50's can be labeled as "Young Guns" even though we all know it isn't true?  Just because the Republican Party says something DOES NOT MAKE IT A FACT.

In today's news, Republican Governors Association welcomed what they called "New Faces" - John Kasich (59), Tom Corbett (61), Brian Sandoval (47), Susana Martinez (51), Nikki Haley (38) - at their meeting that introduced recently elected Republican governors.    Face it.  There is nothing new about any of these people except they are new to their elected office.  No one could call Kasich "a new face" by any stretch of the imagination.

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*  Haley Barbour may run for President.  Apparently some Republicans are hoping he stays out of it because of his alleged corruption problems and his revisionist views about slavery and civil rights.  Of course, Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Eugene Robinson, said it best in the Washington Post:


....In a recent interview with Human Events, a conservative magazine and Web site, Barbour gave his version of how the South, once a Democratic stronghold, became a Republican bastion. The 62-year-old Barbour claimed that it was "my generation" that led the switch: "my generation, who went to integrated schools. I went to integrated college -- never thought twice about it." The "old Democrats" fought integration tooth and nail, Barbour said, but "by my time, people realized that was the past, it was indefensible, it wasn't gonna be that way anymore. And so the people who really changed the South from Democrat to Republican was a different generation from those who fought integration." 

Not a word of this is true. 

Barbour did not attend "integrated schools," if he's referring to his primary and secondary education. Mississippi ignored the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that was meant to end separate-but-unequal school systems. Eventually, officials implemented a "freedom of choice" desegregation plan -- but black parents who tried to send their children to white schools were threatened and intimidated, including by cross-burnings. Finally, in 1969, the Supreme Court ordered Mississippi to integrate its schools immediately. The long-stalled change took place in 1970.... 

 Read the entire article because, unfortunately, Haley Barbour will be continuing to revise history and his part in it.