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Haley Barbour To Stump For Bob McDonnell Sat
Evan McMorris-Santoro | October 30, 2009, 5:14PM
Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) and gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell (R-VA)
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On the final weekend of the Virginia gubernatorial contest, GOP nominee Bob McDonnell is turning to one of the Republican party's biggest names to help him rally the vote. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) will join McDonnell at a rally in vote-rich Northern Virginia.
A former RNC chair, Barbour led the party when the GOP swept the 1994 elections and ended decades of Democratic control in the Congress. He lands in Virginia just days before McDonnell is expected to end nearly a decade of Democratic control of the governor's mansion.
Barbour currently leads the Republican Governors Association, the group that will welcome McDonnell as it's brightest new star if current polls prove to be true on Election Day.
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PeninsulaMatt
October 30, 2009 5:34 PM
Haley Barbour would be a great GOP nominee... if you want Obama to win reelection.
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PeninsulaMatt
October 30, 2009 5:34 PM in reply to PeninsulaMatt
for President in 2012 obviously
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dswx
October 30, 2009 6:08 PM
The Repubs are so desperate for a savior in McDonnell (ironic, since McD is a Pat Robertson protege in every way). It will be quite amusing to see them pump McD up as if he will be the next big Repub presidential candidate...just as they did George "Maccaca" Allen! Bet on it.
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VivaAmerica!
October 30, 2009 7:54 PM
Why bother? Is he afraid of an upset?
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Dave Bowman
October 31, 2009 2:20 AM
I'd love for a dead girl or a live boy to show up in Haley Barbour's bed, if you get my reference.
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Ron Thompson
October 31, 2009 12:51 PM
The 1994 elections did not "end decades of Democratic control in the Congress". The Republicans controlled the Senate from 1981 to 1987.
The 1994 elections gave the Republicans control of Congress for the first time in four decades.
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