Posted on 01/05/2015 3:36:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Fox News contributor and Democratic pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that up to one-third of Republicans are ready to call it quits as members of the GOP.
“The alienation among Republican voters is so high,” says Caddell, that conservatively “a quarter to one-third of the Republican party are hanging by a thread from bolting.” Caddell argues that GOP voters’ attitudes are “so anti-establishment,” and they give Republican leadership poor ratings.
The revelation comes on the heels of polling data supervised by Caddell Associates and reported on Friday by Breitbart News that a stupefying 60% of Republicans who voted in the November elections either definitely or probably want someone other than Ohio Congressman John Boehner to be the Speaker of the House.
Caddell, who sharpened his teeth as a political consultant and pollster for President Jimmy Carter in 1976, has developed a reputation for being a straight shooting analyst, often criticized by his own party for predicting negative outcomes for Democrats.
His latest poll shows that Republican voters are reaching a tipping point and may have had enough of GOP lawmakers’ feckless leadership and constant submission to President Obama’s policies.
A frequent guest on the Breitbart News Sunday Sirius XM Patriot radio program on channel 125, Caddell said that he will be releasing a new survey on Monday of 600 Republican identifiers or independents who voted Republican in November. In what Caddell refers to as a “stunner,” only 16% want “both” Boehner and imminent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to be their leaders.
Moreover, according to the survey, two-thirds agreed with the statement that “John Boehner has been ineffective in opposing Obama.”
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Not at all, old Ike was as liberal as they came; he balked at Goldwater, didn’t live to see Goldwater turn left.
If he was in the least honorable, he would - after what the polls showed.
If cry baby is speaker tomorrow, I’m changing my registration. I hope many more do the same.
“They really can’t find 30 men??? Are we kidding???”
Nope. The gop official motto: Embrace the suck. Or take a hike.
I’m all for getting some exercise.
“I have been recommending that people withhold their 2015 Republican dues until they get rid of Boehner and Steve Scalise. .”
I’m changing my registration is cry baby is still speaker tomorrow. That will be an immediate effect.
I have bolted. I will never vote for a RINO...again just to appease folks!
Trip wire more like it..............
I'm real done with the GOPe.....
And my money will sit..for now.
Good post
I was watching Greta Van Sustern on FOX and she said that there are only nine votes against Borhner. That says to me that some of the new Congressmen that ran as conservatives are Libertarians.
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Hardens Hollow ...
My post was satire ...
that might have been the news report “if” hundreds of “FIRE Boehner Rallies” had indeed been conducted by the 315-plus Facebook “conservatives” who had PROMISED to do them ...
and likewise, in our own backyard ...
if the “scores” of Free Republic “keyboard commandos” had actually gotten off their “lazy arses” last Saturday (2015-01-03) ...
as Jim Robinson had encouraged us to do.
It’s a classic case of “wounda, shouda, coulda” ...
We BOTH want John Boehner FIRED ... it’s just that “hundreds” of Free Republic and Facebook patriots were too flippin’ LAZY to do a thing.
The truth hurts sometimes, especially when it’s about the “pathetic cowardice” of one’s own side.
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I think Greta may have missed a few who have declared. Haven’t heard from many of the new guys yet. They probably won’t declare in advance.
With respect Mr. Don-o, the Buckley rule is a load of crap. its tacitly accepting mediocrity or worse on the theory that voting for someone who is marginally more conservative is a virtue. It isn’t. It’s volunteering to make a sophie’s choice.
I am thinking of the WA State Republicans. I think Cathy Mc Morris Rogers is a Libertarian and I know that Clint Didier is, and probably that Hispanic woman, as well.
prima fascia
If I were you. I’d stop embarrassing myself. Then again, you arent that bright.
Only the demise of the GOP will bring meaningful change. I support an obstructionist third party. Where is it?
I left in 1996. I am still a registered Republican, but I haven’t voted for a guy since 1984. We’ve been thirty freaking years in the wilderness.
The guys in the GOPe chain of command, are blithering idiots. The party of Lincoln has become the party of stinkin’.
What’s really funny is when the left, and the GOPe, say things like, Reagan couldn’t get elected now because he’d be considered a moderate. What they fail to take into account is that the left has been pushing their agenda with success, and that even “moderate” Republicans in the past never had to take a stance on something like sodomite “marriage”, because no one back then even considered such a perversion to be a possibility.
Better to focus on one at a time.
Firing both at the same time is probably beyond us.
But oust one and the other becomes vulnerable...
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