Hero of the Day 2 - Mississippi Gov., Haley Barbour

According to CNN, at the recent Republican Leadership Conference, "respected party elder, Haley Barbour" advised his party to pick candidates who had solutions rather than those who preached familiar and safe ideology without any substance. Regretably, no one else cares for the idea of focusing on fixing things. CNN notes that the loudest affirmations from the audience came in response to negative attack messages, and that Presidential Hopeful, Rick Perry came out with a nice worryingly dismissive and divisive "Our opponents on the left are never going to like us, so let's stop trying to curry favor with them."

Governor Barbour, you took a stand for the pragmatic and progressive and said what needed to be said even when no one was open to hearing it, and for that we thank you. Next time though, try some negative reinforcement that will get them to be better listeners out of spite. Maybe remind them of the criticism they leveled at Obama about being more a celebrity than a problem-solver and take it to heart before history repeats itself with a similarly ineffective celebrity Republican president.