Posted on 11/09/2012 11:33:19 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On Wednesday, Greta put up a poll asking her readers who they thought, at this moment, was the leader of the Republican Party. Readers responded by choosing Sarah Palin by an overwhelming margin over the rest of the field.
Reading the comments it’s pretty plain that many feel Sarah could have fared far better against President Obama than Governor Mitt Romney did. Judging how well Sarah’s hand picked candidates for office did, vs how those in the standard GOP mold under-performed, it’s not much of a stretch to think Sarah herself would have done well and likely led the party to victory.
It’s also clear, reading those comments, that Greta’s readers would like to see Sarah Palin run for President in 2016. It’s way too early to speculate what Sarah will do, and it’s probably best not to speculate until she, herself says something, but I’m one of those who is 100% on board with the idea of a her running.
We need strong leadership from a GOP candidate, and for the last two elections, we’ve had no leadership at all. Timidity cannot defeat evil, and we are staring evil right in the face. We need a warrior at the helm.
Here are the results of the poll as of this afternoon:
Governor Sarah Palin 37.76% (2,137 votes)
Senator Marco Rubio 17.62% (997 votes)
Speaker Boehner 13.91% (787 votes)
Congressman Paul Ryan 8.54% (483 votes)
Governor Romney 8.41% (476 votes)
Someone else 6.94% (393 votes)
Governor Chris Christie 3.64% (206 votes)
Speaker Newt Gingrich 3.18% (180 votes)
I’d be curious to learn why Speaker of the House John Boehner rates so high. Maybe some readers took the question literally, as Boehner is the highest ranking Republican in office. It’s just that seeing Boehner and “leader” mentioned together somehow seems wrong to me.
Readers would rather see someone, anyone besides Chris Christie or Newt Gingrich leading the party. I agree.
The poll isn’t scientific in any way, but Greta’s blog is popular with a wide range of people from all points of view, and likely represents the feelings of many, if not most of the GOP faithful.
I wonder if she would be offered the chairmanship of the GOP. That would be a sign that republicans want real change. Of course, for her it would be a step down, especially in pay.
Doesn’t matter anymore. The GOP-E will just choose another liberal RINO. Four years from now, FoxNews will be cheerleading them on, Karl Rove will have his blackboard out. Same old crap. Like a broken record. I don’t care about any of it anymore, especially anything regarding the GOP. I’ve supported and exclusively voted for the Party for my entire voting life, but I’ve come to the end of the rope. Palin is basically the only tiny thread keeping me to it now.
But between the lying, duplicitous democrats, the corrupt leftwing MSM, a cowardly back-biting GOPe, institutionalized election fraud, and millions upon millions of parasites with voter registration cards I do not think we will ever be allowed to win at this game again.
We need to begin thinking along different lines.
Feel the FReeper love.
That's nice, but they need to be in Congress.
Love Sarah, wish she would have stuck with it. But now, let her enjoy life, she made her fortune, and she has the Liberals and the MSM to thank for it. Concentrate on your Conservative candidates for Congress, get the Rinos out.
In 2014, the Tea Party needs to push several of the GOPe out the damned door and put real patriots in their positions. IF Sarah Palin is able to do it, she should lead the tea Party movement to flush several GOPe slobs from the Senate and House, then PERHAPS she would bea viable Tea Party candidate for President. It is time to just flush the GOP.
loser
Another loser
Wrong.
What difference would it make?
Right now the Republican party doesn’t have a leader.
In fact they never had one before the election either.
The leader they need is Newt Gingrich.
Newt is smarter by half again as the best of those mentioned.
I think we(gop) should give away even more than the democraps!
We need a new approach.
Put a Democratic Party in full and unchallenged control of the House, the Senate, the Presidency and the Supreme Court for even a couple of years, and I think you’d find out what difference GOP control even of the House makes.
Palin is the leader of the conservatives, that is why she is the most important endorsement of either party, and probably in history, at least in my long memory.
You may not know, but the Speaker of the House does, not have to be a member of the House. Strange huh?
If Sarah Palin wants to remain relevant, she should run for that seat. She has tons of campaign money in SarahPAC, and winning another statewide election would be sweet revenge on the 'Rat bastards that forced her to resign the governorship with their frivolous ethics complaints.
Sorry, but Palin did NOTHING to help the GOP win this. I disliked Romney intensely but I voted for him, even though I was a Newt fan and Romney and the Romney-supporting Rush Limbaugh destroyed Gingrich. But Palin could have had an impact on the primaries if she had come out early and supported a candidate, since she was not one herself (which she decided so late it kept people like you on the fence).
As I say, there may have been personal reasons, but that’s just tough. As a politician or even a political strategist, Palin is simply not there.
It is not true, that cheaters never win.
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