Posted on 03/07/2011 8:46:38 AM PST by RobinMasters
Gallup says that not having a clear presidential front-runner in the Republican party is historically abnormal:
“The wide-open battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination — with nearly a three-way tie among Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney – is quite different from the typical pattern observed in past Republican nomination contests. In Gallup polling since 1952, Republican Party nomination races always featured a clear front-runner at this stage of the campaign, and in almost all cases, that front-runner ultimately won the nomination.”
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Personally I think its a good thing. An early frontrunner tends to mean the media has already chosen the candidate they want us to vote for.
That’s not a bad thing. The MSM don’t have a clear target to vilify and ruin so let’s keep it that way.
Palin is hated and feared by the Left. I'd crawl over broken glass for her.
Just the fact theat Quayle, Ford ‘80, Giuliani, and Elizabeth Dole registered as chief opposition (with Giuliani being the BIG front runner in 2008) shows how ridiculously irrelevant these polls are at this stage.
Romney is LOSING ... ergo. the corrupt MSM reports
its lie du jour.
THE REAL DEAL:
The dynamics of running are different. There is no front runner because the candidates don’t want to be one. As soon as one is determined the media anal exam will commence and the candidate will have to spend all his time defending itself from baseless charges. We really don’t know who is running for sure yet except for Myth.
Keep an eye out for a diminutive firebrand from Minnesota, and I don’t mean Pawlenty.
Someone said that on Fox News Business this morning, one of the hosts said that if we had done 3 years ago, what Sarah Palin had advocated with Drill Here, Drill Now, we wouldn’t be going through the current oil/gasoline crises.
She is presidential and she does advocate common sense policy.
Run Sarah! Chase the stinky Demo Boys down and beat them!
Considering that the Republican frontrunner does not necessarily win the Republican nomination, how meaningful is this?
I agree. However it looks to me like they’ve limited our choices already....
“a three-way tie among Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney”
thanks, but no thanks. Seems like deja vu 2008. The media and the GOP will determine the outcome, not our vote, IMHO.
Well, I think they are shading the facts here, if not openly lying.
The 2008 race was McCain v. Giuliani? What about Romney, who was the leading candidate through the early part of the race? What about Huckabee, who looked like a possible winner for a while? They were both running ahead of Giuliani. And Fred Thompson was possible, too.
The 2000 race was Bush v. Elizabeth Dole? What about McCain? 1996 was Dole v. McCain? For a while, it looked as if Pat Buchanan might get it, until Pat Robertson threw his support to Bob Dole.
The main difference this year is that the MSM and the RNC have a lot less control over things than they would like. And if they try to pull their usual tricks, there may be a revolt.
Bachmann is fine with me. Not a household name (yet) but I have nothing against her.
“Palin is hated and feared by the Left. I’d crawl over broken glass for her.”
What’s she going to do? Keep making TV shows or get serious abour running for POTUS?
Finally the conservatives and others that normally allow the RINO GOP to run the show are not stranding the quality candidates in the open to be shredded by the MSM to protect a loser RINO.
So far we don’t have any campaign or any declared candidates who have actually filed to be in the race.
I think that means a lot. People want to see a field.
Perhaps that indicates a reluctance on the part of establishment Republicans to arouse the no-longer-sleeping giant of constitutionally-awakened and "aroused" voters.
If they push the usual "politician," instead of choosing a statesman whose devotion to constitutional principle is real, then the pushback from Taxed Enough Already citizens will most certainly expose their spineless pretense to leadership.
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