Posted on 12/10/2009 2:36:39 PM PST by Kells
Sarah Palin may draw ecstatic crowds in "real America," but among Republican insiders in Washington, she's not so popular.
National Journal's annual Insiders Poll issue will come out Friday, but we've got some early results; the most interesting finding is how many GOP insiders and members of Congress listed Palin as one of their least favorite members of the party.
Palin was the top response when 85 GOP strategists and insiders were asked, "Which voice in your party would you most like to mute?" 28 percent listed Palin; Republican National Committee Chairman Michael came in second, with 12 percent.
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It might be unsurprising that, among any group of people, 28 percent don't like Palin: a facet of her political charisma is that she's divisive, and her unfavorable numbers have historically been close to her favorable numbers, with about as many people against her as for her, though Pollster.com's snapshot shows them improving. Right now, her average is 48 percent favorable, 41 percent unfavorable.
But that's not true among Republicans, a whopping 70 percent of whom view her favorably nationwide, according to a Fox poll released in November. 21 percent of Republicans held unfavorable views of her in that poll.
Since the vice presidential nomination catapulted her into the national spotlight, Sarah Palin has traded on her identity as a Washington outsider, and her scuffles with John McCain's inside-the-beltway team of advisers have publicly backed that up. Perhaps the Republican political elite are out of touch with the Palin-loving Republican base, but it's no wonder 28 percent of them don't care for her, given that she probably doesn't care for them either.
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Saul Alinsky (The Atlantic) tactics begin. Polarize, isolate, demonize.
Their ridiculous game is so weak...and RINO’s are worthless.
These GOP insiders are tone deaf. If these insiders are allowed to run the RNC, then get ready for more NY-23 type contests.
The Republican insiders in Washington are largely responsible for the miserable state of the Republican Party.
The people of this country, not the D.C. insiders of the GOP, should be the determinants in who represents us or not.
We are in the bad spot we’re in in large part due to the ‘go along to get along’ GOP moderates in D.C. and it’s time for THEM to go.
Someone elected these RINOs and they can be voted out, too. Time to get started.
Can someone please tell me what radical Conservative things Sarah has actually advocated?
For the life of me, I can think of only a few actual points she has made, and not a one of them was remotely controversial.
What scares the bajeebers out of the GOP elites?
I must be because she is not their hand-picked hand-maiden, and she won’t be under their thumb doing precisely their bidding.
Reagan come in under the same premise, and oh how they squealed back then.
The GOP leadership members who don’t like Sarah at this point, should just step down. Let’s get some people in there who would actually listen before they went postal.
Ah yes, those un-named, behind-the-scenes, whispering “elites.”
How about some names, Atlantic???
I didn’t think so.
They just don’t get it. The insiders are just beginning to to see that the weather is blowing in a new direction.
These ‘elites’ need to be the guests of honor at a rope-and-tree party, not a tea party.
Those damned “insiders” are the source of many of our woes. They need to be removed or at least term limited out. Let some REAL people have a go at running the show for a change!
Ballotized tar and feathers for the elites in November 2010!
Sarah has to get everyone to send their political donations to her PAC. They then will dole them out to candidates that have a chance of forwarding Conservatism. It will starve the beast and feed the true conservatives in America.
The Reaganites never really took over the party. Most of the Beltway people are really Ford Republicans.
All too true...
Good idea. Next time you get a call from the RNC, tell them you have donated to the Palin PAC.
And they better make their choice well ahead of the coming primaries.
I say this is bogus. This poll doesn't even exist. Who do they identify as "insiders?" There aren't a lot of Pubbies left in D.C. for one thing.
And they wonder why more people support the “Tea Party” (which isn’t even a formal, organized political party) than the GOP.
I agree RobbyS.
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