After making hires and visiting key primary states, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour surprised supporters on Monday by saying he’s decided against running for president., saying that he couldn’t promise to have an “absolute fire in his belly over the long haul.” There’s no doubt that Barbour’s wife never approved of her husband’s run. “It horrifies me,” she said of a presidential campaign and the “huge sacrifice” it would mean for her family. “It’s been a lot to be First Lady of the state of Mississippi and this would be 50 times bigger,” she
said in a recent TV interview. “You would commit to 10 years, which would be two years of campaigning, then you run to win, so it would be four years. Then you would want to run again—so it’s 10 years, and it’s the last part of our productive lives.”