Posted on 01/31/2015 11:47:50 PM PST by Reverend Saltine
In the poll, released on Saturday night, [Sott] Walker was the first choice of 15 percent of respondents in the poll, up from 4 percent when the poll was conducted in October. Walker bested Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who was at 14 percent. Mitt Romney was in third at 13 percent; the poll was taken from Monday to Thursday, before he announced his withdrawal from the race. Ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was in fourth with ten percent of voters' support. ...Jeb Bush, who is viewed as the GOP's establishment choice, was only preferred by eight percent of voters. The results held even more bad news for Bush....
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Hard to believe the Huckster has 10 percent support.
Insults will not change my view of this. It is you and other Republicans who prevent a conservative, limited government, solution to national politics. As long as the GOP candidate is John McCain or his 2016 clone, Jeb Bush, I am overjoyed to see Hillary as President. It is the only path to a third party or a reformed GOP.
If those would end up being the choices, I'll be voting for Reagan or Cruz.
Correct. Meaningless this far out.
This is Iowa, which hardly matters anyway. Walker is the guy with today’s buzz, and he’s buds with the Iowa governor.
Iowa caucuses (not a primary) will go three ways: The GOP-E guy, libertarians backing Rand Paul, and whoever is the evangelical frontrunner.
Walker seems like one of those everybody’s-second-choice kind of guys.
This is so true, on the Republican side anyway. All this hoopla about Iowa, and if someone wins Iowa or NH - but not SC, they are never going to be President. SC folks tend to not give a damn what folks in Iowa and NH say, and even though SC is a small state, there will be more voters in SC than in Iowa and NH combined by a big factor. A state doesn't = a state necessarily. SC is the first test of being able to move large turn out. Then Florida comes, and it's of course much bigger and a test of money to buy expensive media markets.
Iowa does help a bit. Michele Bachmann, like Democrat Chris Dodd in 2008, almost lived in Iowa for months while campaigning. (I think Dodd actually enrolled his children in school there!). After months of face-to-face meetings, hardly anyone in Iowa thought them presidential material.
Walker will be excoriated by the old media long before this is over. In fact, any candidate right of the left will be excoriated by the old media and homowood. The old media and homowood elected the Marxist Muslim and they continue to hold the power to elect who and what they want.
New poll from Iowa shows Walker leading the pack with 16%, according to This Week (ABC).
Paul has 15%
Huckabee has 13%
Unlike most of the other useful idiots, Walker and Cruz both understand politics and what is REALLY going on behind the curtain.
I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see a Walker/Cruz or Cruz/Walker ticket.
This is not the traditional way its done but these men have proved they are not traditional thinkers.
[I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see a Walker/Cruz or Cruz/Walker ticket.]
Too much is at stake to squabble who is at the head of the ticket.
If you look at the articles and posts on leftist web sites, it is plain that Walker is the candidate that the left fears the most.
Put down the bong, dude!
I think that's a winning combination. I hope we come to a united front early in the process so we can defeat first, Jeb, then Clinton (or whomever).
Well, that’s the point, don’t repeat the same guys who miserably folded in 2012...
I am pretty sure plenty of people went to Bush because they knew that Walker would trash Romney around in the primaries, making the case that he is weaker than Walker as a politician.
Our biggest enemy is the GOP leadership. They really want the same things as the Demorats. Larger government, more federal control, crony capitalism, federal subsidies, nation building abroad, Globalism, multiculturalism, open borders, Common Core. The list goes on. The Bush Dynasty is no better than the Clintons or the Kennedys.
For those who are just sheeple and too stupid to understand this (I’m talking to you oh8eleven; neocon1984; bert), we have Obama because the Demorats were too weak to win over McCain with the identical candidate (Hillary) and opted for the wild card choice in Obama.
When the GOP confronts an election where there is no chance to win with a McCain, Bush or Romney, then and only then will we get a candiate like Cruz or Walker.
I know you believe all that drivel but it is not really true
I hope you enjoy the next sixteen years with more of Bush, McCain and Romney or their Demorat equivalents. No doubt your kind of national politicians. I’m okay for you to want the things the Bushes want. Its your vote.
Don’t think for a minute that a Bush or Christie President will do anything differently than BO except as it comes to Israel. Bush will be checking in with his fat liberal mammy and Christie will still be hugging Obama.
I wish Pence would show up in some of these polls.
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