NOLA.com: The Barbour & Bossie divide at the 2014 RLC
If Haley Barbour didn’t ooze the kind of relaxed charm that defines a Southern gentleman the speech he gave Friday in New Orleans might be defined as a lecture.
Barbour’s avuncular style meant it didn’t come off that way, but his remarks drew a sometimes muted response at the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference.
Barely 12 hours after “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson brought down the house with a jeremiad against politics divorced from the Bible, Barbour offered a soothing but clear plea for a Republican Party more willing to embrace compromise.
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