November 8, 2009
The Honorable Haley Barbour
P.O. Box 139
Jackson MS 39205
Dear Governor:
Your Saturday GOP radio speech was pretty good yesterday – apart from that funny mixed metaphor at the end.
But it didn’t do the trick in Congress . . .because it was the wrong speech.
Telling people that you are right doesn’t change anything in that situation. It was a “going down with my ship” speech.At that point, you should have threatened. A little Winston Churchill “We will fight them on the beachheads . . .” might have given a few more vulnerable Democratic Congressmen enough to worry about that the world would have been a better place, come Sunday morning.
On September 29, I sent two proposals to your attention (via both e-mail and snail-mail via Paul Hurst) in Jackson and to Mike Schrimpf at RGA. It is a great, great loss that I received no response.
Spend a little money and send your communications to me for editing. It’s a matter of winning . . .or losing.
Respectfully,
