Jonathan Chait, describing Haley "Boss Hogg" Barbour:
A former tobacco lobbyist and occasional pre-civil-rights-era nostalgic, Barbour is the comic embodiment of his party’s most negative stereotypes. A Barbour nomination would be the rough equivalent of the Democrats’ nominating Howard Dean , if Dean also happened to be a draft-dodging transsexual owner of a vegan food co-op