Kasich Supports Haley Barbour????!!!!!

What does this say about John Kasich, Republican Governor of Ohio?

Fox13now:

Haley Barbour can count on backing from fellow Republican governor John Kasich of Ohio in his 2012 presidential campaign.....

....."I will be for Haley if he runs because he's been so helpful to me," Kasich said in an interview at his Capitol office in Columbus. Barbour has stepped up his pre-presidential activity in recent weeks, including repeated visits to early-voting states.....

  Haley Barbour is the Governor of Mississippi.  Do you recall some recent stories about Haley Barbour?  Fox13now reminds us that----

....Twice in recent months, Barbour, 63, has sparked criticism and national debate after addressing issues at the heart of his state's troubled racial past. In a December profile in the Weekly Standard, he praised the Citizens' Councils of the civil rights era — the segregationist groups that ran towns like his — though he later reversed himself and called the councils "indefensible."

...Barbour spurred more controversy when he declined to denounce an effort to create a state license plate honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate lieutenant general and early Ku Klux Klan leader. "I don't go around denouncing people," Barbour said at a news conference....

...He was a son of the local white elite who attended public schools before desegregation. In the Weekly Standard article, he said he didn't remember the civil rights era as "being that bad."


Barbour didn't think that the years people were marching for their civil rights was "...that bad."  Of course, it wasn't that bad for HIM, a white  person who grew up in the segregated south.

Since we are known by the company we keep, I think it is quite telling that Kasich, who has been criticized for his lack of diversity, is going to support Barbour.  Kasich and Barbour are a real pair.