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"The headline of the Gallup poll is somewhat misleading. "Romney Edges Palin and Huckabee in Early 2012 GOP Test." The subhead is the real story: "Palin's favorable rating stable after announcing her resignation." So the numbers are this: The candidate most likely to support for the 2012 Republican nomination for president today based on Republicans and Republican-leaning independents: Romney 26, Sarah Palin 21, Huckabee 19, Newt 14, Tim Pawlenty, 3%. Haley Barbour, 2%. However, when you get to the favorable ratings of current leading contenders, you have Sarah Palin at 72% approval among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents; 56% approve of Romney and 59% approve of Huckabee.
But regardless this cannot be said enough. See, the Gallup poll leads with "Romney Edges Palin 26-21" in, "Who you gonna vote for?" which is three-and-a -half years away. It's irrelevant. Approval numbers: 72% for Palin after this year she's had, and 56% for Romney?
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I’m glad to see this. One of the biggest complaints I have against the conservatives of Talk Radio, is that they sat silent while the republicans decided who they were going to choose because they did not want to influence the vote.
At the very least they could have said these are conservative principles and these are the candidates who uphold these principles. These are the liberal principles and these are the candidates who uphold those principles. If some complained they were being treated unfairly, have them on the show and grill them.
Instead we got RINO after RINO pretending to be conservative. As the real conservatives were pushed out, the radioheads sat silent and eventually, only the RINOs were left. The conservatives of talk radio do an injustice to their listeners when they don’t stand up for conservative principles, when they just wait to see who wins. If all the republicans running were conservative, that tactic might work. But where there are RINOs in conservative clothing, they need to be ferreted out and exposed.
I hope Rush and others can see this as well and I hope we don’t have a replay of 2008 in 2012.