Posted on 09/02/2011 12:33:40 PM PDT by CA Conservative
A plurality (47%) of Likely U.S. Voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that Palin will enter the presidential race, but that includes only 13% who feel it’s Very Likely. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 35% think a Palin bid is unlikely, but just five percent (5%) say it’s Not At All Likely. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Only 18% of voters think it would be good for Republicans if Palin entered the race. Sixty percent (60%) say it would be bad for the party, while 11% predict it would have no impact. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure.
Even most Republicans (52%) believe it would be bad for the GOP if Palin threw her hat in the ring, a view shared by 74% of Democrats and 54% of voters not affiliated with either major party.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Thanks very much, LLS! I had to wipe misty eyes after reading RWR’s speech. Magnificent. Of course, I agree with you and that’s why I will faithfully support Governor Sarah Palin all the way. I truly believe that she holds true to her values and convictions which we share, and that she first places her trust in God. She has her priorites in their proper order.
Be well. May God always bless you, Sarah Palin and Freedom loving patriots everywhere.
Trisham, YOU, I respect...DONE!
Are you lacking comprehension skills?
If I was I would have missed your slip.
Can we agree to disagree, I don’t want to argue with you, we are on the same team for heaven’s sake.
I apologize if I was out of line.
JenniferJJacobs JenniferJacobsDMReg
Sarah Palin is here at the Machine Shed in Urbandale, with a crowd chanting "Run, Sarah, run." #iacaucus #palin
IF you aren't a troll, it was a VERY odd thing to say.
PeterHambyCNN Peter Hamby by RedBrightandTru
Palin chief of staff Mike Glassner in the house here in Urbandale. Palin mobbed despite best efforts of staff to get people seated
I knew it was Jim and Al b., onyx summoned them, not rocket science...what exactly about “illustrious leaders” bothered you, it WAS a compliment. sheesh
I have a profile and 3 years of posts...I assure you, I am NOT a troll.
I have a hard time seeing Sarah in the Senate - she’s too much of a leader. But, who knows?
Why would Jim and the Mods be MY illustrious leaders but not yours?
I'm sorry but that was just REALLY an odd thing to say.
Just for the record, I haven't summoned anybody.
No, it means that if a person chooses to ignore a post it’s because they are either busy, tired of talking in circles, or refraining from saying something that would get them banned.
I didn’t summon anybody!
I am the one who copied and pasted your post and replied to you.
Sheeesh.
I wouldn’t care if it KILLED the GOP.
People went off the deep end in 2007 when the cry of panic among Republicans was "Anybody but Hillary!" They had lost focus of the larger picture, which was that much of Hillary's so-called popularity was manufactured by the media. Liberals have to cheat for a reason -- it's because if they didn't, they'd lose, because most Americans reject them; the MSM and liberal HWood create the illusion that liberals are more plentiful and popular than they are in reality, so when liberals win via vote manipulation, manufacture, and fraud, Americans are preconditioned to accept the results with a sad shrug.
So in 2007, when some were looking at the BIGGER picture, which was that the mission, the goal, was to defeat statism, those who were going off the deep end by only looking two feet ahead, were allowing the liberals and the MSM to frame the way the GOP picked its candidate -- "It has to be somebody who can beat Hillary." Hillary wasn't nearly as popular as America had been led to believe (not that it would have mattered much) and Obama slipped in instead.
Right now, the larger picture is that we really have no idea who the Dem nominee is going to be, so choosing our candidate based on "Anybody who can beat Obama!" leaves the GOP wide open to manipulation by its enemies.
The larger picture is that the problem far transcends Obama, just as it far transcended Hillary in 2007.
Read the consumer comments at MSM sites like Yahoo, LA Times, and ABC -- I have, many times. It's clear that news consumers (not political junkies like us, but Americans posting to those MSM discussion forums), a) think Obama is a loser, b) think Liberals are pains in the butts, and c) are really, really ticked off at the MSM for being so biased, in that order.
Since the problem transcends Obama, the ANSWER will have to transcend Obama, as well. I kind of like Palin because her appeal, which results in tens of thousands of Americans showing up to hear her talk politics, seems to transcend Obama and speak to the real truth: Americans are sick of Obama, sick of liberalism, and think the MSM is disgusting in how it reports on politics.
I really don't give a rusty rat's patoot how ANY Republican politician criticizes Obama. That's like caring that a ball rolls. OF COURSE they're going to criticize Obama. Big whoop.
I CARE A LOT about what Republicans think about how to solve the problem of statism that created Obama. He was created by a "center" pushed so far left, via decades of Republicans electing (usually out of blind fear that a less moderate Republican would lose) increasingly more and more politicians with statist tendencies to office, that Obama and his socialist stances were, in that perspective, centrist.
The ship will only come right when we represent the party that stands against statism and stands for getting government off our backs and out of our pocketbooks. That's the larger picture; those who lose focus and have gone off the deep end are those who are basing everyting on popularity contests. Fear usually leads to stupid choices. Courage and confidence lead to smarter choices.
Palin greets supporters at Iowa restaurant
URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — Sarah Palin is making a surprise appearance at a suburban Des Moines restaurant.And she was greeted there Friday night with chants of "Run, Sarah, run!"
Hundreds of fans jammed into the Iowa Machine Shed, with the backroom of the farm-themed restaurant overflowing, as people from as far away as Texas, Florida and California strained for a glimpse of the former Alaska governor.
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