Burnt Orange Report

Barbour: Disassociating self from Racists would set "irksome precedent"

By Byron LaMasters

Mississippi Republican nominee for governor, Haley Barbour's put his foot in his mouth again. First, he said that he didn't know anything about the racist Council of Conservative Citizens despite attending on of their fundraisers and having his picture on the homepage of their website. Now, he says that it would set an "irksome precedent" to ask for his picture's removal:

Haley Barbour plans to keep his picture on the Council of Conservatives Citizen's Web site.

Disappointing but not surprising.

Barbour, the GOP nominee for governor, said that asking for his picture's removal would set an irksome precedent.

"Once you start down the slippery slope of saying, 'That person can't be for me,' then where do you stop?" Barbour said of his association with the CCC, a St. Louis-based group that has defended racism, attacked the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and praised Nazi Germany.

Since when was it an "irksome precedent" to disassociate oneself from racists? Is this what the Republican Party means when they say that they are an inclusive "big tent" party?

Hmmm...