The Current Leader for the 2012 GOP Presidential Nomination is....Haley Barbour?

You didn't read that headline wrong. A man named Haley Barbour--currently serving as governor of Mississippi, is probably today the front runner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012.

Oh yeah, he was also a major tobacco lobbyist and his Wikipedia profile contains this tidbit--something you might expect from a Mississippi Republican:

During this failed bid for Senator a controversy arose at a campaigning stump. According to The New York Times, in the presence of the press an aide was complaining to Barbour that "coons" were going to be at a campaign stop at the state fair. Barbour warned the aide, in front of reporters, that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be "reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks."

Needless to say, if Republicans nominate this guy, I don't think California will be in play...

Sarah Palin. Haley Barbour. Newt Gingrich. Bobby Jindal.

Barack Obama might win 48 out of 50 states in 2012. I'm not exaggerating.