GOP hopeful agrees with 5 and 20

Mr. & Mrs. Barbour

 The governor of Mississippi must be reading South of 5 and 20:

Mississippi Gov.  Haley Barbour, a potential presidential contender, accused the Obama administration Wednesday of favoring a run-up in gas prices to prod consumers to buy more fuel-efficient cars.

Barbour makes the case, as we did, that high gas prices fit Obama's vision of America's feudal future:

"This administration's policies have been designed to drive up the cost of energy in the name of reducing pollution, in the name of making very expensive alternative fuels more economically competitive," Barbour said during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce breakfast across the street from the White House.

In 2008, while the head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, (Obama's energy secretary Steven) Chu told The Wall Street Journal that energy prices were the lynchpin to an energy overhaul.

"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," Chu said in September 2008.

If our country is to survive as we know it, the Republicans must nominate a presidential candidate who can win.  It's not yet clear who that would be, but by his stand on the vital energy issue Barbour has kept himself in the running.