Is Haley Barbour done yet?

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Posted at 9:20 AM ET, 02/16/2011
By Jennifer Rubin

... Let's be clear: no candidate can successfully run for president if he doesn't understand you should rebuke efforts to honor the man most identified with the KKK.

Do I think Barbour is a racist? No. Do I think he's clueless as to how racial issues play outside his home state? Yes. Do I think it's feasible that the Republican electorate would want him as the standard bearer of its party to run against the first African American president? I really don't ...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/02/is_haley_barbour_done_yet.html

Rubin is a rightwinger, so the above represents a rightwing take on Barbour's refusal to denounce the proposal for a Mississippi vanity plate honoring slaver, traitor, and klansman Nathan Bedford Forrest