Posted on 01/31/2014 1:44:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There are two stories here. First, you will note how Public Policy Polling reports the results of its most recent poll of most popular potential GOP candidates for president. If you click on the link and read the PPP narrative you would not realize that Sarah Palin is the choice of more Republican and unaffiliated voters of all of those mentioned. Yet they post Mike Huckabee as the choice. Just another example of how much the liberal Elite Media fears Palin.
The second story is, of course that Palin has a 70% approval rating to a 20% unfavorable. Huckabee has a 46/18 rating, not a significant difference. Of course the "big news" is how much Chris Christie has been hurt by the "scandal" over political retribution by some of his staff. Still nothing compared to the IRS scandal with Obama, but the Elites don't mention that.
It will be interesting to see how all this shakes out after the GOP discloses its amnesty for illegal aliens plans.
But credit where credit is due. At least in this poll the results reported were for likely GOP primary voters. In earlier PPP polls they included Democrats.
We think the overriding conclusion from these results is the fact that there are still way too many "undecided" to say there is a front-runner among any of these potential candidates.
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Cmon Chris, she tweets and facebooks, isn’t that enough?
He also supports amnesty.
Deal killer.
She endorsed him, yes.
I see.
She endorses people.
I don’t see how that wins the presidency.
I’m out, plus I don’t want to crush it in the fax machine.
Sorry, vet. I don’t see it.
The one way I will believe that Palin is the “real deal” is if she respectfully severs herself from showing any more gratitude towards McCain for choosing her to run as VP. He is using that to shut her up on any major issue that runs counter to this RINO/Globalist/Traitor shill. He is NOT due any respect. None. I still can’t figure out if John was surprised by how well Palin did on the campaign trail while he was doing everything he could to lose the election.
Get ready to scratch your head. Or maybe bang your head against the wall in utter frustration. A recent poll of GOP voters in New Hampshire put Romney in first place with 28% support. Here's an earlier FR thread about it.
Ted Cruz doesn’t describe it like you do.
You and Ted Cruz have two different opinions on what put him in the Senate.
I think I’ll trust Ted Cruz’s opinion on his election victory, over that of a concern troll.
Palin would be the most effective counterargument to the standard media meme that “it’s time for a female president”.
Palin leads the conservative movement and has done more to shape it than any individual since Reagan himself.
I’m not aware of anyone who has had more success in choosing and advancing candidates, who has personally shaped the Congress and Senate conservatively, than Palin, ever.
That is a fascinating idea.
Chris I’m with you. I’m from Texas, I’m 100% Cruz now. I’ve always looked at Palin as a good cheerleader/kingmaker from the side lines. When she popped on the scene I had heard of her but quickly, as a VP candidate I thought she had outstanding morals and beliefs like my own but she was and still is not seasoned. Speaking from facebook and twitter isn’t the same as debating your principals on Sunday mornings or other places.
If Palin is going to make a move she’s got to step into the arena now. If she thinks she’ll wait for the LSM to tear Cruz down, it’s not gonna happen.
One thing you folks don’t understand is this: remember Obama saying, “ I have a pen and a phone,” Ted Cruz was the Solicitor General and filed numerous briefs with the Supreme Court.
Do you think even for a second he won’t walk down and file a claim today if he feels Obama steps over the line.
It’s still WAY too far out to be polling on candidates. Anyone who might be interested in running should be working the voters, wherever they can, and polishing their economic, energy, and foreign policy skills.
Ansell2
What put Ted in the senate was the voters of Texas.
I don’t have anything against Palin, but I also don’t see where she has put herself in a position to win the presidency.
That being said, I’d have no problem at all if she was Cruz’s VP.
But I don’t intend to vote for anyone else other than him for president.
That is exactly right.
She is too far removed from the visible part of this game.
I have nothing against her personally, but she has behaved in a manner that suggests she wants to be president or is even remotely interested in that.
You obviously don't know Palin at all, and you don't know Cruz.
They are partner conservatives, not competitors.
*While speaking with POLITICO’s Mike Allen this morning, the Texas Republican Senate nominee called Palin’s endorsement “game-changing.”
“If you look at the senate races across the country this cycle and last cycle, Governor Palin has had a game changing impact one after the other,” explained Cruz.
Palin endorsed Cruz, a Tea Party favorite who shares her philosophy of liberty and limited government, just days before a wide-open May 29 primary, helping to propel Cruz into a strong second place showing. The Cruz surge provided momentum for his runoff battle with Dewhurst.
“Fighters like Ted Cruz can lead the charge for us,” former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said in July when she came to Texas to campaign with Cruz, calling him a “a proven, common-sense constitutional conservative.”
The Tea Party favorite admitted that many have referred to his victory as “improbable.” He told Allen that the reason why Palin’s endorsement has had such an enormous impact is because voters consider her a true barometer of conservatism.
“In a Republican primary, everyone claims to be conservative and voters are pretty cynical. They are tired of these candidates that sounds great on the stump. They say they are going to cut spending, they get into the office and they become spineless jellyfish,” Cruz said. “I think conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is a real deal.”*
Ansel, I agree with you. That’s why I like her as the kingmaker.
Sorry, but I’ll take Cruz over a concern troll.
“I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Palin,” Cruz said.”
Cruz said Palin, like him, drives the mainstream media “bat-crap crazy” because she is “fearless,” “principled,” and “courageous” while the mainstream media wants conservatives to “shut up and accept defeat and be timid.”
Cruz also simply said, “Sarah Palin picks winners,” in reference to Palin’s early support of candidates like Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rand Paul (R-KY), Pat Toomey (R-PA), and governors like Nikki Haley (SC) and Susana Martinez (NM), and former Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC), who is now the state’s senator.
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