Tea Party Presidential Straw Poll

Tea Party Straw Poll ^ | June 16, 2011 | steelers6

[Steelers6]

Sarah Palin 7,692 21% Herman Cain 7,681 21% Michelle Bachmann 5,143 14% Ron Paul 5,106 14% Mitt Romney 3,441 10% Gary Johnson 1,979 6% John Huntsman 1,828 5% Rick Santorum 1,605 4% Others 5%

[takenoprisoner]

Palin and Cain. Cain and Palin. Either way, we have a dream ticket.

But, who will concede the first position to the other? Cain is accustomed to being in charge. But, he has never held an elected position. Palin has.

Either of them, unlike the current occupier, are qualified to be President.

Whatever they decide between them will be fine with me. Just get on with it Sarah! Get in it to win it, or step aside. What are you waiting for? You and Cain have the numbers. Make a decision, already.

[matthew fuller]

I tied Michelle Bachman up with Ron Paul @ 5153 each, but then went back to try to cut and paste the totals, and paul had gotten two more votes.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

LDS hate Reid....he is there because of union thugs.

[Gator113]

Me too.

[SoConPubbie]

If there's a "social issues" segment of the Tea Party, then why is Santorum polling below Johnson?

Maybe the Tea Party is mostly about reining in government spending, taxing, and regulation.

Whatever your day job is, don't give it up.

You lack the necessary skills for political analysis.

The Tea Part is about BOTH limited government and the Social Issues.

One thing it is not, is a platform for the Libertarians and Ron Paul.

[SoConPubbie]

I’m certainly grateful that Sarah is not as thin-skinned as some of her supporters.

Yea, and I bet you'd keep your mouth shut if Sarah Palin had pulled that crap on your candidate, right?

[Minus_The_Bear]

The country is broke.

The Tea Party is about spending & fiscal issues. There are tons of people who disagree with us on social issues who are members of the Tea Party.

The main issue of the Tea Party is spending. Nothing else.

[Politicalmom]

I don’t see what your point is. The top two are excellent on social issues, as well as fiscal issues.

[SoConPubbie]

The main issue of the Tea Party is spending. Nothing else.

No, you are wrong.

If the Tea-Party, as a whole, decides to eschew the moral issues, it will become as insignificant as the Libertarians are.

They will not be a factor at all because the Social Conservatives, most who are also fiscal conservatives, will go elsewhere.

At that point, they will have minimal impact.

[Minus_The_Bear]

The Tea Party can address moral issues but that isn't their #1 purpose.

If you don't get that the country is broke there is zero hope for you.

Social conservatives like Santorum ran up the debt to LBJ like heights under Bush.

No one is saying to abandon social issues. You just need to realize that we are in a deep recession and nobody wants to hear about it when so many people are out of work.

It's about the economy & jobs.

[BuddhaBrown]

"I bet you'd keep your mouth shut if Sarah Palin had pulled that crap on your candidate, right?"

Betting on me keeping my mouth shut would not be wise.

I don't wish anyone to keep quiet. I just can't help but point out the outlandishly destructive attitude of the personality-obsessed division of the Palin armies.

Nobody else has answered this for me yet, perhaps you can:

What policy differences exist between Palin and Bachmann that would justify NOT voting for Bachmann if she ends up being the nominee in our REAL war against Obama?

If there are none, then a decision to write-in Palin in that situation would be to join a cult of personality.

[SoConPubbie]

What policy differences exist between Palin and Bachmann that would justify NOT voting for Bachmann if she ends up being the nominee in our REAL war against Obama? If there are none, then a decision to write-in Palin in that situation would be to join a cult of personality.

None, that I am aware of.

That being said, the hiring of Rollins showed an extreme lack of character on the part of Michelle Bachmann.

Letting her surrogate go out and attack Sarah Palin, much like many of the PDS'ers do on this site, including yourself with that small-minded crack about "personality-obsessed division" shows she lacks the necessary leadership skills to be a really good Leader, or in other words, POTUS.

Have you seen Palin do this?

[SoConPubbie]

Letting her surrogate go out and attack Sarah Palin, much like many of the PDS'ers do on this site, including yourself with that small-minded crack about "personality-obsessed division" shows she lacks the necessary leadership skills to be a really good Leader, or in other words, POTUS.

This made her look like a petty little politician, not a potential Leader of the Free World.

Do you agree?

[SoConPubbie]

If you don't get that the country is broke there is zero hope for you.

The last great American Conservative "Revival" happened with Reagan.

Reagan won because he combined the Moral, or Social issues with his Limited Government positions.

If the Tea-Party wants to be effective (and the GOP too) they will follow the same pattern, if they want to go the way of DoDo birds, they will follow your advice.

[truth_seeker]

“We on FR live in a special bubble.”

So very true.

[Rick_Michael]

This a poll that seems to reflect FR.

[Minus_The_Bear]

You are still ignoring the basic facts.

Tea Party's #1 focus is not social issues. Could it be in the future? Maybe.

The economy is in tatters & getting worse. The Tea Party is focused on spending & jobs.

Just look at Wisconsin, the unions & the NLRB, are those social issues?

[BuddhaBrown]

"It's about the economy & jobs."

Which are both currently suffering greatly from misguided SOCIAL/MORAL policy decisions to pursue economic tactics which have spread wealth and centralized decision making in general.

I'd like to think most we TEA partiers are wise enough to stay clear of internal squabbles regarding what is moral/social and what is purely economic (nothing really) and just agree that God-given individual Freedom is the precious national treasure we seek to restore.

But then again, I've seen plenty of TEA party signs that say stuff like "No Obamacare / Hands Off My Medicare" as if Medicare was a good thing.

To the extent we'd like to be real originalist TEA partiers, our main emphasis would be on the devolution of power.

Our battle is not social -vs- economic. It is:

Constitutional limits -vs- federal thuggery and czars.

States' rights -vs- national socialism.

Freedom -vs- Tyranny.

Even people of like minds disagree for minor and silly reasons (just look at the Palin/Bachmann threads. Don't struggle for agreement on national policy. Let's agree to do nothing much at all - at the federal level.

In other words, our simple message to America should be:

Don't compromise. Decentralize.

[Minus_The_Bear]

""It's about the economy & jobs."

Which are both currently suffering greatly from misguided SOCIAL/MORAL policy decisions to pursue economic tactics which have spread wealth and centralized decision making in general. "

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Actually, it's the spending.

That Rick Santorum, "Just let us spend your money on conservative Big Government programs." isn't working anymore.

[BuddhaBrown]

“...the hiring of Rollins showed an extreme lack of character...”

I am curious as to whom you would recommend. Campaign experts with presidential level experience don’t grow on trees. I don’t doubt Vin Weber’s name came up more than once being that he was a fellow Congressman from MN and was part of the Reagan revolution in the 80’s. But, Vin was Romney’s policy guy last time around so I’m certain that would have given the anti-Sarah conspiracy kooks a bit too much to digest.

I would also be interested to know, exactly, what it was Rollins said that would quality as a valid excuse to throw a vote away instead of voting for Sarah’s near carbon-copy if Michele is the nominee?

Such action might serve some selfish need, but it does Liberty no good at all.

I don’t care for Mr Ed any more than you do. But I certainly did not expect Bachmann to shake up her campaign a few days before announcing and going to her first debate - in which she did quite well. And since the muzzle appears to be in place for now, I would not hold my breath waiting for his pink slip any time soon.

And I will not be throwing out my Reagan photo either simply because he employed Rollins.

Nor will I swear off voting for Sarah in the future simply because her most significant decision in her most recent campaign was to glom onto an even worse RINO character and submit to HIS handlers.