“Just imagine the numbers if Governor Romney were being attacked and abused 24/7 or if Governor Palin wasn’t...”
This is a CNN poll of 1009 “ADULTS”. As Onyx points out, 22% of CONSERVATIVES in this fishwrap poll are voting for Obama. So it is garbage in the premises.
Second, and even more importantly, even if this were a legitimate poll (which it most assuredly is not) there has been no campaign. A vetting of the issues including Mitt Romney’s socialist medicine scheme in Massachusetts, not to mention his facilitation of gay marriage there makes him un-nominatable in a GOP primary. The fact that CNN and the MSM continue to try to pump him up shows just how clueless they are. He can’t win. Period. He has no more of a chance than Arlen Specter.
Look for the MSM to continue to try to promote him and Huckabee, though. They are desperately casting about for someone ...anyone to oppose Palin. I noticed they even had little Scott Conroy who wrote a book slamming Palin and was even caught stalking Piper Palin as she got off her school bus. In his article, he tries to pump up Huckabee as a “player” based on Nathan Deal’s razor thin win in Georgia, even trying to say with a straight face that if Joe Miller beats Murkowski in Alaska that he will have Huckabee to thank for it. He conveniently forgets that Huck rolled snake eyes in Iowa and South Carolina. Conroy looks to have been better at stalking than at political prognostication. Poor little guy.
Believe me, if Huck runs (which I rather doubt) he is going to have 1000 pardons and Maurice Clemmons and Wayne Dumond hung around his neck, not to mention his nanny state policies in Arkansas and big spending. He has no constituency at all with Sarah Palin in the race. and he has a boxcar full of baggage.
Sarah Palin is a terrific candidate, as any objective observer can see (”Sarah Palin displays her pitch-perfect populism”, by David Broder)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021002451.html
She would be the favorite against ANY GOP challenger in just about any year. The fact that she is matched against political lightweights like Romney, Huckabee and Gingrich makes her the odds on favorite. (Don’t try to tell me how serious Gingrich is. He doesn’t believe in much of anything. And he plagiarizes lines from his ex-wife). He is serious only because the MSM has declared him so. These three are, one and all, creatures of the MSM, created for one purpose: to allow the MSM to pick the candidates of both parties as they did in 2008 so that they have a “win, win” situation.
They can only get away with that in a year when there is no transformational candidate. They almost killed Reagan’s candidacy in 1980 but that was before talk radio, the internet and cable TV when the MSM and the Washington Establishment was much more powerful. This year, they face Sarah Palin, who is a virtuoso in all three of these new media. In spite of their efforts to destroy her, which surpass even their attempts in 1980 to get Reagan, they simply cannot accomplish it. She is both too talented and her political instincts are too good. And they have no alternative. At least in 1980, they had George Bush (not a superlative candidate but as good as Gingrich, Romney, Huck, et al and WITHOUT THE BAGGAGE) to try to take Reagan down. In 2012, they have NOBODY. And you can’t beat something with nothing.
Look for the MSM to continue to try to promote him and Huckabee, though. They are desperately casting about for someone ...anyone to oppose Palin. I noticed they even had little Scott Conroy who wrote a book slamming Palin and was even caught stalking Piper Palin as she got off her school bus. In his article, he tries to pump up Huckabee as a “player” based on Nathan Deal’s razor thin win in Georgia, even trying to say with a straight face that if Joe Miller beats Murkowski in Alaska that he will have Huckabee to thank for it. He conveniently forgets that Huck rolled snake eyes in Iowa and South Carolina. Conroy looks to have been better at stalking than at political prognostication. Poor little guy.
Hickabee's endorsement for Joe Miller in Alaska!
Mike Huckabee
I [am] pleased to support Joe Miller for U.S. Senate from Alaska. A former State Magistrate and Federal Judge, Joe possesses a deep understanding of the law, but more importantly understands its impact on the people...With the federal government encroaching quickly into every aspect of our lives – we need Joe in the U.S. Senate to help Congress make the correct decisions to bring Washington back to the limited role envisioned by the Founding Founders...Please join me in supporting Joe Miller – let’s make him Alaska’s next Senator.
The more the better. We just want Joe Miller to defeat Lisa Nurkowsky! At least Huck got this race right. Sha-zam!