Posted on 09/03/2011 11:10:52 AM PDT by Clairity
Two-thirds of self-described tea party voters said Ms. Palin should not run for president, and 71% of all GOP voters said Ms. Palin should remain on the sidelines. Expand the survey to the entire electorate, and 74% don't think she should run.
Ms. Palin still placed third in a survey of GOP primary voters, polling at 8% behind Mitt Romney with 18% and Texas Gov. Rick Perry with 26%.
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You do forget quite a bit. If John McCain had won, Sarah Palin would be his VP right now and endorsing all of McCain’s policies. If that had happened, you might have had a different opinion right now. You might even call Sarah a RINO.
>> Am I going to be zotted? <<
Maybe Pissant can describe for us the penalty for dissing Sarah.
(I’ll bet he’s still posting hereabouts, just with a different name and a different computer. Probably even reading this thread!)
>> We need Sarah in the race to push Perry aside. <<
Right. Let’s just split the conservative vote three ways, among Palin, Perry and Bachmann. Romney will love it!
National Review Online (definitely not a pro-Palin site)
Who is the better conservative standard-bearer?
Palin 78 %
Perry 22 %
37,633 votes
Bachmann is my choice of declared candidates but she has almost no traction against Perry. Nor does Romney.
I don’t want to see Perry walk away with the nomination.
He is not really a conservative - for one thing he is too pro-illegal and is a proponent of amnesty.
It looks as if the only one who might be able to slow Perry down is Sarah.
What is it with the idiots who don’t see that her resigning the Governors position when she did was the only thing and the right thing to do under the circumstances?
I am tired of explaining to you morons.
All of you who won’t give that a rest are either stupid, trolls, or media shills.
You don't allow yourself to be run out of office.
It’s not stupid to be very concerned with her ability to handle the job if she’s wanting to be the POTUS! This is the time to be objective and honest. Quite frankly it’s kind of skeery seeing the same cult of personality issues that were on display with the 0bama voters.
Polls and poles are for strippers and skiers. My conclusion is everyone with an agenda to get Sarah out for whatever reason is paying anyone they can to do what they do best, push poll, lie and smear.
Sometimes those polls are right, like in 2006.
Funny how you can dig up a video of a crowd of maybe 50, in Ames, where Palin had no presence , who all were surely backing other candidates and 10 of them say no when asked if Palin should run and somehow find some meaning to it, yet ignore a video , in Iowa where thousands cheer wildly for her to run.
http://www.palintv.com/2011/08/13/full-governor-palin-hannity-interview-from-the-iowa-state-fair/
You clowns make me laugh.
Surely you jest?
At that time her supporters were in the state of Alaska.
Population of Alaska: 699,000 (+/-)
Of the millions it was going to cost on the lawsuits would you, as a candidate, expect the supporting population to help pay your bills?
If so...go draw your welfare check and be happy like any other leech of society......
Only a moron would resign in the middle of her term and then run for president.
Are you telling me that she couldn’t garner support if she told the GOP that she was being intimated into resigning?
Quiting is not an option.
The GOP nomination choice is between Perry and Romney. If the conservatives split their votes between Bachmann and Perry, Romney gets the nomination. Add that into your equation.
>> It looks as if the only one who might be able to slow Perry down is Sarah. <<
You’re correct. So here’s how the typical primary vote might look:
Bachmann — 15%
Palin — 17%
Perry — 18%
Romney — 21%
Paul — 12%
Santorum —9%
Romer — 1%
Huntsman — 8%
Gingrich — 4%
None of the above — 5%
So guess who walks away with the delegates?
The point is that by causing a three-way split among conservatives, Palin (and Bachmann) will probably hand Romney the nomination on a silver platter. Mitt must be salivating at the prospect of Sarah’s entering the fray!
Perry or Romney?
I don't see either one of the two as being worthy of conservative support.
The best that can be said for them is that they are not Barack Obama.
Like Senator Obama..?
I believe I said, in a discussion about “phishing polls” that: "If the TEA Party and the Republicans keep this up they will drive the Independents right into the Democrats' open arms."
Isn’t it the case that whenever someone like Palin, or Limbaugh, or Levin, or even sometimes when a Perry or a Romney, says something that might remotely be thought contrary to DC establishment doctrine, then that establishment will commence wailing that the “Independents” will be offended by the “controversy” and will flock back to the Democrat Party?
I was mocking that line of reasoning.
We know that when a Rove, or a Krauthammer says something like this, they are merely defending their DC Insider Establishment turf. When we hear such nonsense from the Press Corpse, or a member of the Democrat Insider Establishment, like Bawny Fwank, we know that we are not hearing their most sincerely held beliefs, and that they are not speaking to us out of a deep concern for our best interests.
It is, after all, the political silly season. In fact, there is no longer a “silly” season. The silliness goes on without cease.
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