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Gallup: Palin top choice of Republicans to run in 2012
hotair.com ^ | November 22, 2008 | Allahpundit

Posted on 11/22/2008 11:56:31 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY

They’re asking whether various candidates should run, not who the nominee should be, but it’s a fair proxy for enthusiasm. 67 percent say yes to the ‘Cuda, 62 to Romney, 61 to Huck. No one else cracks 50. Among conservative Republicans, it’s Palin 73, Huck 65, Mitt 64; among moderates and liberals, Mitt 59, Palin 48, Huck 46. Based on those numbers, it’s actually Romney who’s best positioned to unite the party.

The more I think about it, the more skeptical I am that all three will run. Even I’m not pessimistic enough to believe the recession will last until 2012, which means The One will inevitably be credited with having succeeded in his chief task by the time his term ends. Huckabee will run anyway because he’s hot to remake the party in his image, but Romney doesn’t strike me as eager for another expensive primary war just to be a sacrificial lamb in the general. My hunch is he’ll run only if Obama looks vulnerable and, even then, only if there are enough social cons running to split the base among them so that his strength with moderates is magnified. (It worked for McCain this year, didn’t it?) If he doesn’t run, I assume Pawlenty will throw in and try to capture those moderates with his “Sam’s Club” rhetoric. He won’t win, but he desperately needs a higher profile if he’s going to make a serious run in the future. (It worked for Huckabee this year, didn’t it?)

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KEYWORDS: 2008polls; 2012gopprimary; atleastsheisusaborn; gallup; palin; sarah; sheevenhasabirthcert
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To: ejonesie22

if Senator bennett was a bit younger I’d definitely go for him. A real supply sider and social conservative.


241 posted on 11/22/2008 6:17:23 PM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: Diogenesis

Judge Judy speaking highly of Sarah Palin on this evening’s ‘Larry King Live’...


242 posted on 11/22/2008 6:20:50 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Diogenesis

You are like fungus. You just keep coming back. Now how many times do I have to tell you to stop posting to me. I have tried nice. If you post to me again it won’t be.


243 posted on 11/22/2008 6:21:21 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: stripes1776

And what is that platitude of a coherent worldview supposed to mean?

it means that you aren’t afraid of cutting taxes on the most successful even if it is not the most popular thing to do. It means that you have a clear and thorough conservative response to the bailout without railing against “greed” or “predatory lenders.”


244 posted on 11/22/2008 6:21:48 PM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: ari-freedom
First, all of this negative press on Gov. Palin
appeared circa Sept. 2008, sounding like its from some FRUSTRATED,
REJECTED VP Candidate to hurt the GOP (and America).

Second, in this negative press appearing suddenly
Gov. Palin increased the tax on oil companies and
made "a few minor tax breaks" to help small biz.

"Palin supported and signed into law a $1.5 billion tax increase on oil companies in the form of higher severance taxes. .......
Palin has offered a few narrow or minor tax breaks, including:
* A tax credit for film production in the state, offering about $20 million per year in breaks.
* A cut in an annual business license fee from $100 to $25 (the legislature went half way to $50).
* A one-year suspension of the state fuel tax to save taxpayers about $40 million.
* A repeal of tire taxes to save taxpayers $2 million.
* A tax credit for commercial salmon harvesting to save taxpayers about $2 million."

245 posted on 11/22/2008 6:28:22 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: napscoordinator

“Minority status?”

Yes, RINO minority status. With $40 million Romney had to buy every vote he got outside the tiny monority of Mittbots.

“We keep picking weak candidates as you perfer and that is what we will be.”

I was for Thompson,who at least argued coherently.

“You were the biggest chearleader for McCain and look what that got us.”

No I wasn’t, that is a pure fabrication on your part. I would have picked McCain after Romney, which ought to tell you how much respect I have for McCain. But go ahead, keep defending your loser candidate no matter how disruptive he is.


246 posted on 11/22/2008 6:29:16 PM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: napscoordinator

You don’t know ‘nice’ and you certainly don’t know ‘truth’.


247 posted on 11/22/2008 6:30:58 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: ari-freedom
it means that you aren’t afraid of cutting taxes on the most successful even if it is not the most popular thing to do. It means that you have a clear and thorough conservative response to the bailout without railing against “greed” or “predatory lenders.”

And that did not take a Rhodes scholar to accomplish. It took a man with some common sense and the courage to live up to his convictions.

If we have come to the point where we can only elect a man president if he has some meaningless degree from an ivy league school, then we have lost our way.

248 posted on 11/22/2008 6:31:26 PM PST by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: ari-freedom; napscoordinator
napscoordinator's programming is the following:

Ignore Romney's past abdication to Democrats - check
Ignore Romney's appointment of corrupt, liberal pro-criminal judges, overlooking GOP candidates - check
Ignore Romney's ignoring Mass Constitution - check
Ignore Romney's wussiness to criticism using tears and fabricated 'religious persecution' - check
Ignore Romney's use of fake law enforcement officers (caught in two states) - check
Ignore Romney is the MSM's choice because they have files already prepared against him - check
Ignore Romney's coverup of the "Big Dig" for donations - check.
Ignore Romney's bankruptcy of Mass for his HillaryCARE=RomneyCARE - check.
Ignore Romney's targetting of other GOP candidates - check
Ignore Romney's decimation of Mass GOP and that he couldn't win Mass to Hillary -check
Ignore Romney's real impact on Massachusetts - check
Ignore Romney's federal bailout of the Olympics - check
Ignore Romney's begging for a federal bailout of RomneyCARE - check
Ignore Romney's use of the Mormon card or CRYING to defect from his record or criticism - check


Novak: Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign

Said Novak: The rumors were "traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson
."

249 posted on 11/22/2008 6:32:54 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: ari-freedom
I have heard of him but not much on his record, but what I have heard was sound. There is also Jeff Flake. Like I said, it's that other M word that I can't support politically...
250 posted on 11/22/2008 6:34:03 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 11-4-2012)
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To: FastCoyote
napscoordinator: "“Minority status?”"

FastCoyote: "Yes, RINO minority status. With $40 million Romney had to buy every vote he got outside the tiny monority of Mittbots."

Exactly.

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Romney) lost Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

251 posted on 11/22/2008 6:36:15 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: napscoordinator
If they are a fungus, it just means they are thriving on the very dead (and disproved) pro Mitt material of all the Romney supporters around here...

And please, for the love of God and all that is holy, stop with the "Mitt is Reagan" crap I saw in an earlier post. I think we discussed that before a while back. It is rapidly going past distasteful and disrespectful of a great President, and heading toward disgusting and vile.

252 posted on 11/22/2008 6:40:16 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 11-4-2012)
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To: ari-freedom
I had to look Bob Bennett up real quick, refresh my memory. Pro fence, flat tax and such, against government being in health care (listening there Mitt my boy...)

Yes, if only he were younger I'd pull the lever for him.

253 posted on 11/22/2008 6:57:17 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 11-4-2012)
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To: ejonesie22

Reagan and Romney are one in the same.


254 posted on 11/22/2008 6:58:22 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Diogenesis

You are garbage.


255 posted on 11/22/2008 6:59:47 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator; All
That is perhaps the most insane statement I have heard on FreeRepublic.
256 posted on 11/22/2008 7:00:15 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 11-4-2012)
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To: ejonesie22

insane but true. Reagan and Romney have many similiarities.


257 posted on 11/22/2008 7:01:34 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: ejonesie22

ROFL!!!!

OH MY!!

it is.....it is...

thanks— I needed that laugh.....I’m surprised to see Romney recover from his thumb sucking, fetal pistion, out emerge from under his desk so quickly....


258 posted on 11/22/2008 7:02:28 PM PST by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
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To: napscoordinator
Out side of both being Americans and male, and perhaps good hair, there is no Reagan like qualities in Romney. Indeed Romney eschewed Reagan during his political career.

Seek help, read books, learn conservatism or continue to be a source of humor here at FR...

259 posted on 11/22/2008 7:04:45 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 11-4-2012)
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To: napscoordinator

"I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.

(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)


"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""

--  President Ronald Reagan


I'm very clear I think, to the people across the Commonwealth
my "R" didn't stand so much for Republican as it does for reform.
"
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)


"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
 which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."

--  President Ronald Reagan



260 posted on 11/22/2008 7:04:52 PM PST by Diogenesis
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