Presidential Future Ambiguous for Barbour

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing,” Mississippi governor Haley Barbour said this morning to an audience at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “And the main thing is economic growth and job creation.”

Barbour, a potential Republican candidate for president in 2012, was speaking to business leaders about his own leadership on business and economic issues in Mississippi over the last eight years. He spoke largely about the state’s business-friendly regulatory climate and support for workforce training, which has made the Magnolia State an attractive location for high tech manufacturing operations from corporations like Toyota and GE.