No???, maybe you have a problem: 
Have faith!
Posted on 09/01/2011 5:58:19 PM PDT by Steelfish
Fox News Poll: Perry Overtakes Romney as Top GOP 2012 Pick; Most Say Palin Should Stay Out of Race By Dana Blanton September 01, 2011 | Even as Texas Gov. Rick Perry moves into the lead as Republican voters’ preferred presidential candidate, a Fox News poll released Thursday shows that voters are more likely to view him as “too extreme” than former frontrunner Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney.
Even as Texas Gov. Rick Perry moves into the lead as Republican voters’ preferred presidential candidate, a Fox News poll released Thursday shows that voters are more likely to view him as “too extreme” than former frontrunner Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney.
In addition, most American voters -- including a majority of Republicans -- think former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin should stay out of the presidential race. Perry receives the support of 26 percent of GOP primary voters in the new poll. That’s up from 13 percent in early August and enough to edge out Romney as frontrunner. Currently Romney captures 18 percent, down from 21 percent (August 7-9).
No other candidate garners double-digit support.
Palin receives 8 percent and Texas Rep. Ron Paul comes in at 7 percent. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann captures the backing of 4 percent, down from a high of 11 percent in late June. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and businessman Herman Cain also garner 4 percent each. Another 4 percent support former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, even though he has said he is not running and his name wasn’t included in the question. Giuliani and Palin are unannounced.
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No???, maybe you have a problem:
Have faith!
That Clinton-era computer game “Duke Nukem Forever” finally got made this year.
Doesn’t sound like people like it though. ;o
Perry's strength is not his "newness". Lots of "new" candidates came before him.
Perry's strength is that he is the NFL Dallas Cowboys and the other candidates were in the Pop Warner League.
Perry: Almost 11 years as Governor of the State of Texas (26 million), the second most populous state in the Union and the most economically successful state in the Union.
Bachmann: ZERO executive experience. Not even a Committee Chairmanship. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Cain: Never won a single election in his entire life.
After Perry's entry, Cain and Bachmann did not just "fade". They have dropped into oblivion.
Why?
Because, with ZERO executive experience for Bachmann and ZERO election victories for Cain, they were pathetically weak candidates and pragmatic Republican voters know that.
Romney has crashed and burned after the Perry entry but was the polling leader, far and above the conservative candidates.
Why? Why was a liberal so popular (or at least preferred)?
Because, with four years as Governor of Massachusetts, Romney was not seen as a Pop Warner League candidate.
Republican voters supported liberal Romney because they believed that it was better to have a RINO President than a reelected Obama that slaughtered a Pop Warner candidate.
But since it's pretty much been stated over and over again that "anyone" could run against Obama and win then why not choose the best conservative there is?
You have just defined "The Big Lie". Just because a lie is repeated and repeated does not make it true.
In the latest Gallup Poll, Obama slaughters Palin 50% to 33%
"Anybody" cannot defeat Obama.
Obama is the Buffalo Bills: Definitely weak and probably will lose badly to the Dallas Cowboys ... and most other NFL teams.
However, putting up the Sunnyvale Pop Warner League Tigers against the Buffalo Bills guarantees a Buffalo Bills victory.
Such irrational exuberance for "best conservative" (even if that Politically Pure candidate is a pathetically weak candidate in the general election) is what brought about the "Mama Grizzly" Christine O'Donnell fiasco of 2010 that, now, even Sarah Palin runs away from.
Perry takes national double-digit lead among GOP frontrunners (Gallup - Aug, 2011)
Perry takes national double-digit lead among GOP frontrunners (Ramussen - Aug, 2011)
Perry takes national double-digit lead among GOP frontrunners (PPP - Aug, 2011)
Perry takes national double-digit lead among GOP frontrunners (CNN - Aug, 2011)
Perry takes national double digit lead in 5 separate polls (NYT - Aug, 2011)
Perry leads GOP contenders in IOWA (PPP - Aug, 2011)
Perry takes commanding 20 point lead over GOP contenders in South Carolina (PPP - Aug, 2011)
Perry leads GOP contenders in South Carolina (Magellan - Aug, 2011)
Perry leads GOP contenders by 22 points among Tea Party supporters (Gallup - Aug, 2011)
Perry led GOP contenders in North Carolina and Virginia BEFORE he declared candidacy
Perry beating Obama in Florida (Magellan Data - Aug, 2011)
Perry only GOP candidate beating Obama. Up by three points (Rasmussen - Sept, 2011)
Perry and Obama in statistical dead heat (Gallup - Aug, 2011)
Perry and Obama in statistical dead heat (Rasmussen - Aug, 2011)
Perry and Obama in statistical dead heat (Quinnipiac - Aug, 2011)
Obama 50%, Palin 33% (Rasmussen - Aug, 2011)
The word that comes to mind is "REALITY."
Compared to other US states, Texas ranks 44th in home ownership.
Texas is 50th in affordability of home insurance.
Texas has the highest rate of families without health insurance.
The state ranks first in the number of workplace fatalities and minimum wage workers.
Texas 50th in workers compensation coverage.
The state has the highest rate of workers earning either minimum wage or less......., and the lowest average personal credit scores.
In 2010, Texas ranked last in the percentage of adults with high school diplomas.
Perry has virtually no foreign policy experience, an effect of his “having always been a state official”.
Perry’s a willing practitioner of corporate welfare ....gaining the power to spend taxpayer money to pick winners and losers, and to entice businesses to move to Texas via payoffs.
Perry panders to LaRaza, a radical Hispanic organization that supports granting amnesty to all Hispanics living illegally in the US.
Perry accepted Tarp money though he had raniny day funds he refused to use for his state.
...................want more..............just wait til his Gov. meets and we’ll hear loud and clear the huge debt Texas has since Tarp has run out.
Anyone who aligns him/herself with Islam in order to advance their political career as Perry has done, does not have America’s best interest in their heart.........
Well if Perry and Romney end up the only ones to vote for in the primary then looks like I’ll not have a candidate to vote for from what you’ve stated.
The cruel beauty of our system is not that we get to vote for what we want most, but that we get a chance to vote against what we want least. ;-)
I won’t be voting for who I want least. I’ll be voting for who I choose either way this election goes and it won’t be Perry or Romney. McCain was enough for me...won’t do it again.
Good for you. LOL!
nah, the word that comes to mind is NAIVE.....
referring to any voter who buys into to the propaganda saturated polls. I thought real conservatives knew better...
Why do you hate your country?
The other amateur Tea Partiers have done very well. But Mr Crow got himself on Tee Vee.
Your days are numbered, bub:
To: Jean S; EveningStar; SQUID
Yes, I know they’re trolls. There will be a day of reckoning. Coming soon. All trolls must die by zot.
120 posted on Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:09:38 PM by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2771968/posts?page=120#120
Boy are you dumb. Let me spell it out for ya, real slow-like:
(1) Republican voters choose a candidate;
(2) FR voters vote for Candidate A, who cannot beat Obama;
(3) Candidate A is the GOP nominee;
(4) Candidate A loses general election to Obama;
(5) Obama wins second term
Notice, because Candidate A cannot beat Obama - which fact is known beforehand - then it necessarily follows that whomever voted for Candidate A in the GOP primary was effectively voting for Obama in the general election because they were intentionally choosing the loser.
In other words, the conservatives who voted for Candidate A were throwing the game.
So, go right ahead and vote for Candidate A, comfortable in the knowledge that you might as well be voting for Obama in the general election.
I can’t stand democrats, and I’d rather cut my right arm off than intentionally do something that I know will cause Obama to win, so I am beyond disgusted with those so-called “conservatives” who - because they have their philosophical panties in an idiotic twist about some theoretical “failure” of this or that candidate who can beat Obama - are going to knowingly vote for one of the few candidates - Bachmann and Palin immediately come to mind - who cannot beat Obama.
One common theme that I see on this website is overuse of the term “Rino”. Just because a candidate does not square with our each and every policy decision does not make them a Rino. It is counter-productive. Heck, even Reagan did things (Amnesty in ‘87) that could be considered “Rinoish”.
To me, I want to see the most Conservative person get elected. I have my preferences for a candidate, and yes Sarah is closest to my own stated beliefs with her policy positions, and I do like her alot. BUT, I also think that a majority of the voting public would wrongly consider her to be an “experiment”. And right now, with the state of the economy and general conditions in this country, most voters are going to be risk averse. Right or wrong, it may be the worst time for Sarah to run.
Perry has an edge when it comes to the risk averse voter. He does have a substantial record to run on. Now, I don’t agree with all of his alleged policy stances, but are Palin, Paul, or Romney supporters really going to allege that he would be worse than Obama? Actually, would any Republican be that bad? No they may not be ideal,and I am not a Romney supporter, but I would hold my nose and vote for him.
I don’t see Romney winning because many people see him as similar to Obama. GOP voters and many Independents will not go for him.
Paul does not and never will have widespread support. While most of his economic policies are pretty sound, he is crazier than a rat in a tin sh-t house when it comes to foreign policy. Flame away, but that is how I see him. This is not 1820, we can’t bury our heads in the sand and hope against hope that the bad people will be nice and leave us alone.
I really believe, for better or worse, Perry will be the nominee. I love Sarah, but as my very conservative Mother says, “Now is not the time for more uncertainty”. And in many people’s eyes, right or wrong, Sarah is not a proven commodity. The fact that she can draw big crowds may actually work against her, as many Conservative and Independent voters will sourly remember the last time we allowed a “cult of personality” to choose the leader of the free world.
Just my humble opinion. If Sarah were to win the nomination, I would actively and enthusiastically support her. I am not counting on it.
It’s been said wise not to cast your pearls before swine.....I think it could be easily said you’re in that pen from your forum responses.
Insults and claiming people who choose other candidates other than the one you’re campaigning as Obama supporters is false in every way....but it is your game IMO on FR.....not to mention slamming Palin and Bachman as the media has.. and then covering it with “syrup” hoping the stench isn’t noted.
It’s one thing to get rowdy...altogether another throwing mud and inciting war-fare among Freepers. I will not feed your flames.
Ditto! Well put.Give me someone to vote for. Not against.
I follow data and I present data. Whatever position I have, I back up with data. So far, I have been correct and the candidate, based on data, that I perceived to be the strongest, before he even announced, is running away with the GOP field. That candidate is also the only current GOP candidate that is leading Marxist Obama in the polls and has the highest chance of being the next GOP nominee and the next President of the United States that saves America from the current Obama nightmare.
That is not "trolling". That is called level-headed "politics".
Some of the more fanatic in your camp, Virginia Ridgerunner, have now begun to proclaim, even on this thread, that "Either Sarah gets it or Obama can have it". Since that extreme "cult of personality" thinking goes against everything that Sarah Palin herself and every other rational patriot like Sarah wants for America, you might be surprised whose time is actually numbered.
Defeating Marxist Obama, not the extreme and irrational adoration of any one particular politician, is Priority One.
That is my position and I stand by it.
Sir his stance on coddling Border criminals is a NO GO, Remember the Kennedy McCain bill that Bush supported? That dog crap fractured the party allowed the Rats to gain the House and this animal of unknown origin get into the oval office! NO BORDER Criminals Period!
Yeah and our "R"s flip the sign on their hat to "D" ,like the debt cap vote increase,Big talk and vote like a RAT! We also have a Prefolded Weeper of the house,The Bonehead.
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