Posted on 09/17/2009 8:53:06 AM PDT by OneVike
I took a poll yesterday of whom Freepers would like to see as the Republican Presidential candidate in 2012. As you can see Sarah Palin was a hands down winner. However, you can still vote in that poll if you haven't and change the outcome, but the trend is obvious. Of 785 votes Sarah received 496 for 62%. Next was Duncan hunter with 70 votes for 8%, trailing a distant third was Mitt Romney with 43 votes at 5%. The other category received the same total as Romney did, while the rest received such low amounts of votes they are not even worth mentioning, for President that is.
What Ticket Would Freepers Like to See For President in 2012
Which brings me to my next poll. I took Sarah and Hunter and set up some scenarios for the 2012 GOP ticket. You will see that I gave quite a range of possibilities yet only for Sarah and Hunter My poll my choice and besides it is my opinion that if every registered Freeper voted the outcome would have more votes but the same result in percentages.
I have had many comments that tell me it is way too early for a poll that can mean anything, but allow me to present a few reasons why I and a few other Freepers believ it is not too early to decide.
First off, we really do not want the left to chose our candidate for us, so let's make sure the RINOs know we do not want them screwing up our best chance at fixing what they already screwed up . Thanks to the left all of our financial reserves have been taxed and in two or three more years the situation will just get worse. Consider if you will, the amount of money and influence that will be exerted to keep Obama in the White House. We are talking in the excess of a probably a billion dollars just for Obama's political reelection campaign. Add to that the influence of the MSM that is now an official partner with the Democrat party. The upcoming movies and politicking that Hollywood will bombard the country with. The ongoing constant pressure and influence of television programs, and the music Industry (which now includes many CW stars like Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, and brad Paisley). Not to mention the concerted effort of the Universities across America and the public school system.
There will be an all out assault upon the GOP candidate that we chose. An assault that will do everything in their power to keep Obama's butt on Air Force One. They will do what ever is necessary to keep the Messiah in the White House. Remember, Obama began his run for the White House in 2004 after wining his Senate seat. So it is incumbent upon us to decide now, whom we would like our political donations and our time to be spent on. After all, it will take a lot of money and dedication of time to defeat the coalition of Obama/Hollywood/Soros/MSM/ACORN, and it is imperative we start now.
So with no further delay, I ask that you freep my poll so I can see what ticket you, my fellow Freepers, would like to see on the GOP for 2012.
What Ticket Would Freepers Like to See For President in 2012
Had Mitt Romney or Ron Paul won the poll like Sarah did, I would be having them in this poll instead of her and Hunter.
Petreaus, Santorum, Thompson, Hunter, Issa. In that order.
Mike pence
Based on the poll it would be Palin-Hunter. Given her resume I doubt she could be the first candidate since whenever to pick a lowly Congressman, however.
As much as I love Sarah, I’m rethinking it a bit. I don’t like ANY male candidate with the same fervor I like her, but I’m thinking a solid conservative with Gubernatorial experience and Sarah as VP would be just fine & dandy with me. :)
Where is Rudy Giuliani???
Does a Haley Barbour and Sarah Palin ticket fit your bill?
Outside the box, but this is a wish list: Antonin Scalia.
Poll Ping,
What Ticket Would Freepers Like to See For President in 2012
I’d almost prefer SP as VP -
that would give her 16 years to kick ass instead of just 8.
And, in answer to the thread question
MICHELLE BACHMAN.
If we nominate Palin (or any other 2008 loser re-tread) we will lose. Palin is a flake. She couldn’t handle governing Alaska; how can she handle being president. Palin as nominee guarantees 4 more years of Hussein and his communist cronies.
Mark Levin, just to keep them in line.
I do not want to hear from any of the half-wits who commented “No one knows Duncan Hunter” during the last primary and got us saddled with McCaine.
We need to make sure people KNOW WHO THE HELL DUNCAN HUNTER IS!
I say Mike Pence, as well. Palin/Pence sounds good to me!
Allan Mulally
Ford's CEO, Google him what he has done and is doing.
He would carry Michigan and IMHO possibly OH and IN and that would stop the Bamster in his tracks politically.
ex animo
davidfarrar
He’d be one. So would Congresswoman Michelle Bachman of MN, though maybe some time as Governor for her, first.
Wisconsin needs a swift kick in the @ss with a Republican Governor this time around, for certain! Scott Walker (currently Milwaukee County Exec.) may just pull it off, because most of WI has pretty much had it up to HERE!
Sarah Palin - Great policy positions/great grassroots/energetic support/will be completely destroyed by the media
Mitt - RINO, one word RomneyCare
Jeb - Pro-Amnesty
Huckabee - “Compassionate Conservative” i.e big spender/pro-social bailouts
Crist - RINO
Jindal - Squishy presenter will be run over
Paul - Great small government guy, but can’t overcome kook support
Cantor - Good conservative . again, weak presenter
Allen - Macaca
Thompson - Not interested
Giuliani - Been there done that
Keyes - Same problem as Paul
Barbour - undefined
Hunter - Ideal policy positions, but unfortunately no star power
Petraeus - A future Powell?
Pawlenty - Milk toast
Other - We need a hard nosed, conservative true believer, solid record on the issues, who is not afraid and is also a performer = TBD
Well, he got a higher percentage in this poll then he did the whole campaign.
Tancredo is missing. Not gonna happen, but he’s at least as likely as Hunter.
Really? Do you mind if I ask what has brought about this change?
I don’t think VP twice would work. Somebody who chooses to be No. 2 more than once? It would be the equivalent of saying, “Yes, I’m qualified, and I will do it if I have to, but I’d rather not. I’d prefer to just support.” That’s not leadership, and it is not who Gov. Palin is.
Who do you propose?
That’s why Jim DeMint would be her perfect running mate. Sarah can harness the grassroot and DeMint can the rest.
ex animo
davidfrarar
As far as VP I'm not even going to suggest someone. That's a complicated decision to be made once you've got the nomination locked up. Remember Bush enlisted Cheney to help him find his VP. He made the right choice after all that.
Just emotionally I'd love to see a VP Dick Cheney (again) or Fred Thompson. Mike Pence caught my eye at the Kill Obamacare rally.
Sarah & Duncan Lead, Who Should be their VP?
Petreaus
Could you please explain what you mean in saying that she couldn’t handle governing Alaska?
I liked him too although he had all the charisma of an avocado, but he lost me when he threw his support to Huckabee.
McCain is more likely than Tancredo or Hunter /s
If there were any GOP men with the leadership potential and the gonads to speak the desperately needed truth consistently, they would be front and center right now, and 62% of the combined conservatives and independents would be following them -- right now.
None of them have the following, and very few of them have the courage.
Whether she wants to be or not, Sarah is the current de facto leader of the free USA.
I appreciate your adding Rep. Ron Paul to the 2nd list, but why wasn’t he on the 1st? I would love to vote for a Paul / Bachman ticket (or vice-versa).
President: Palin. VP: DeMint. AG: Mark Levin. Sec of State: John Bolton. Sec of Education: Ward Connerly. SecDef: Oliver North. CIA: Peter King. Mideast Peace Envoy: Vacant.
Palin / Perry wasn’t a choice.
Oh, cheebus.
Palin / Wilson
or
Palin / Perry (rick) or reversed as Perry / Palin
Ditto
Pence is a good name to float.
He has sttod firm in his years in the house.
The question is if he would be more effective in the house as Speaker one day?
I liked Hunter early in the primaries but he really was going nowhere and not very fast.
People didn’t know who the heck Duncan Hunter was in 2008 because he didn’t do or say enough of anything to make sure they knew.
That sounds pretty good but I'd like to start a movement for "Pissant for President".
Sounds like Bobby Jindal!
Fred Thompson. He’s also outside the general corruption, but he knows how DC works. He can’t raise the excitement among the base that Sarah can, so he can’t run for POTUS.
Plus his wife is hot, so we’ll have a hot POTUS and a hot wife of VP. We haven’t had a hottie there since Kennedy. I know, for shame being so shallow.
That's because the media refused to give him coverage. There's a video of him in Congress showing the average Gitmo prisoner meal. He was really damn entertaining.
Instead the media gave us "Maverick McCain" 24/7.
It got a lot of knuckle heads really excited. Let's choose our own candidate this time.
I'm wondering if there can be a true grassroots Repub Presidential candidate. Is there any way to bypass the ridiculous RINO leadership or MSM or whoever that fixes it so that a Bush or McCain gets the top spot, no matter what thinking conservatives want? (sorry, but Bush really needed more help to articulate himself out of a paper bag; I voted for the Pro-life candidate, but he did give us Stimulus I and spent like a drunken sailor...).
You need someone who can communicate; who can keep his or her hands off Argentinian females; someone who understands that America was a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy and that we should return to the former. One can wish...
“I do not want to hear from any of the half-wits who commented “No one knows Duncan Hunter” during the last primary and got us saddled with McCaine.
We need to make sure people KNOW WHO THE HELL DUNCAN HUNTER IS!”
We have to do something about this media before the next election or we don’t have a prayer of getting a conservative.
Last time they stuck Hunter on the end of the line in every debate, wouldn’t even pan the camera on him, wouldn’t ask him questions.
STOP letting the media pick your candidates! EXpose the media, hold tea parties on their front door step!
“Sarah Palin - Great policy positions/great grassroots/energetic support/will be completely destroyed by the media
Mitt - RINO, one word RomneyCare
Jeb - Pro-Amnesty”
Sarah claims to be pro McCAin immigration reform, though she avoids the subject like the plague lately.
Some one get’s it! God bless you AuntB!
“Well, he got a higher percentage in this poll then he did the whole campaign. “
Not true. Hunter won several straw polls, like the one in Arizona, over Mcain..in his home state!
An all estrogen ticket ...Palin and Bachman or Malkin..throw in a quasi minority too..lol
did I say that?
me the wascally racist?
I think i will slap myself..
aside from DeMint, Joe and Sessions...there are few men worth a testicle
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