Operation Barbour-ossa | Michael Tomasky

I spent most of the day trying to avoid reading Politico's big Haley Barbour puff piece, but I finally succumbed, as I knew I would. He's the most powerful man in GOP politics, they say, because he runs the Republican Governors' Association and has lots of money to dole out to candidates.

And then:

Barbour's clout is also derived from his serious interest in running for president in 2012, a point he is making clear in private conversations. His logic, one adviser told POLITICO, is simple: When...