Poll: Sarah Palin remains threat to Mitt Romney in potential GOP 2012 race

The Boston Herald ^ | 2009-07-08 | Dave Wedge

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Former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney is locked in a statistical dead heat with Sarah Palin for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, despite the Alaska governor’s abrupt resignation last week, according to a new poll of Republican voters.

Romney leads all Republican presidential contenders, garnering 25 percent of the vote, edging out Palin (24 percent), former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (22) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (14 percent) in the Rasmussen poll released yesterday.

[Jewbacca]

Yeah, Pam Anderson's breasts are the perfect analogy for Mitt Romney --- they might look good, but when you get down to it, Romney is a big fake boob.

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[mrsixpack36]

Jindal is one I can safely say has no chance. He is about as charismatic as a rusty tin can.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Romney would be an excellent Secretary of the Treasury.

[McGruff]

There's something about a woman in waders.

[Jewbacca]

It’s going to be Rick Perry.

I understand from Texans that Perry is not their favorite.

[freekitty]

I was wondering the same thing. Is he self-appointed?

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[Jewbacca]

Why? Bankrupting a state is not exactly fiscal material.

[McGruff]

go jindahl! palin has no chance except to play kingmaker.

I look forward to the contest.

[Diogenesis]

Willard "Myth" Romney only got a "C" rating from CATO.
And that was BEFORE Romney's Socialized medicine and coverup of the BIGdig kicked in. .
[Note that the record also shows that Shapeshifter Romney also betrayed President Bush as Governor
(predicting what TeamROMNEY would do later in Election2008 to Gov. Palin, and every other GOP candidate).
Romney was against the conservative tax cuts.]

Here are the facts from CATO.

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

FACT: Romney had the opportunity to excel like Gov Palin,
but instead Romney was a piss-poor Governor who had to flee the state
because of his poor record, his destruction of the local GOP,
and his impositions of socialized medicine and gay marriage overiding the state Constitution.

Let's let Myth wreck the US economy like he did Massachusetts?

[Cheetahcat]

Mitt leads RINOs maybe but not Republicans.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Oh, I’d consider bankrupting Massachusetts an act of patriotism.

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eCSMaster (RomneyBOT): "Oh, I’d consider bankrupting Massachusetts an act of patriotism."

So did carpetbagger Romney. You two must be close.

[khnyny]

I would vote for Obama over Romney.

Really? Wow, that's a whole lotta hate there dude. What do you think of the MSM eviscerating Romney during the primaries? Please share your thoughts...

[rabscuttle385]

Romney would be an excellent Secretary of the Treasury.

Ye, let's have RINOs run the executive branch, so when they fail, Palin (and conservatives) get blamed.

What a great strategery. /sarc

[Jewbacca]

Combining Pam and Myth Romney in my mind has ruined a perfectly good fantasy about a woman I wouldn’t touch in real life without a biohazard suit.

Scary. Romney is a bigger turn-off than Hepatitus-C.