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Re: GOV. BARBOUR "I will not be a candidate for president next year

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Tue, 26 Apr 11 12:58 PM | 102 view(s)
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So, he was asked, why wouldn’t he run?

“I’m not somebody who’s been dying to run for president all his life,” the normally amiable Barbour said with a tinge of annoyance at an impromptu press availability under the bleachers of a high school gym. “I have a real life. I have a family. I’ve had two great careers. Before I make a final decision, I’m going to make sure that I feel the call strongly enough, got enough fire in the belly that I’m ready to make a 10-year commitment which is what this is. It’s a 10-year commitment.”

It would, in short, dramatically change his life at the age of 63. Barbour, who lost his father at age two, knew that if he became president it would take up a chunk of his remaining years.

His own wife and one of his two sons were unambiguous about where they came down – they were against the idea.

“It horrifies me,” Marsha Barbour told a Biloxi TV station in early April, adding: “It’s been a lot to be first lady of the state of Mississippi, and this would be 50 times bigger. It’s a huge sacrifice for a family to make. It really is.”

His eldest son, Sterling Barbour, was equally blunt in a March email to Weekly Standard editor William Kristol that was obtained by the Associated Press.

“I am a private person and don’t want him to run,” wrote the son.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53685_Page2.html#ixzz1KcUp1UXX




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GOV. BARBOUR "I will not be a candidate for president next year
By: clo in FFFT
Mon, 25 Apr 11 11:03 PM 		Msg. 28540 of 65535

April 25, 2011

STATEMENT OF GOV. BARBOUR

"I will not be a candidate for president next year. This has been a difficult, personal decision, and I am very grateful to my family for their total support of my going forward, had that been what I decided.

"Hundreds of people have encouraged me to run and offered both to give and raise money for a presidential campaign. Many volunteers have organized events in support of my pursuing the race. Some have dedicated virtually full time to setting up preliminary organizations in critical, early states and to helping plan what has been several months of intensive activity.

"I greatly appreciate each and every one of them and all their outstanding efforts. If I have disappointed any of them in this decision, I sincerely regret it.

"A candidate for president today is embracing a ten-year commitment to an all-consuming effort, to the virtual exclusion of all else. His (or her) supporters expect and deserve no less than absolute fire in the belly from their candidate. I cannot offer that with certainty, and total certainty is required.

"This decision means I will continue my job as Governor of Mississippi, my role in the Republican Governors Association and my efforts to elect a new Republican president in 2012, as the stakes for the nation require that effort to be successful."

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