Posted on 07/02/2009 9:30:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You are right on the money. Palin will always have the base locked up as good as anyone but the base CANNOT WIN by itself. The media will always tar and feather her and expose every flaw to the mushy middle where national prez elections are won and lost.
Do people really want Obama in charge until Jan 2017??? Wake up already-—they media hates her and will never let her win.
91 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin.
65 percent of Republicans have a very favorable view of Palin.
8 percent of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Palin.
3 percent of Republicans have a very unfavorable view of Palin.
64 percent of Republicans say Palin is their top choice for the GOP 2012 presidential nominee.
12 percent of Republicans say Mike Huckabee is their top choice for the GOP 2012 presidential nominee.
11 percent of Republicans say Mitt Romney is their top choice for the GOP 2012 presidential nominee.
Interesting numbers:
8 percent of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Palin.
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3 percent of Republicans have a very unfavorable view of Palin.
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11 percent of Republicans say Mitt Romney is their top choice for the GOP 2012 presidential nominee.
She is the choice of the republican party by a wide margin, since when do the majority of republican voters decide that they need to replace their choice with the media's preferred republican.
The republican candidate that wins the most republican votes is the republican primary winner.
No conservative would be trying to replace the existing, conservative, top of the ticket with Mitt Romney.
How long was Rudy Giuliani the top choice of Republicans for the 2008 nomination?
Years, wasn’t it?
And how many primary victories did that translate into?
A lot of FReepers are conveniently forgetting that it was a foregone conclusion since, oh about September 12, 2001, that Rudy was going to be the next Republican nominee, and he was going to face off against Hillary Clinton.
How soon we forget.
I don’t know you never post any information, right now the most conservative of all the likely choices is already at the top and you are trying to knock the conservative off and move up Romney.
When was the last time that conservatives started off so solidly in the top slot?
You are trying to move the ticket left, troll.
My privilege. I figgered you would be thrilled to hear that.
I think they'll start to come around when she's able to get out there for the top spot on the ticket, unconstrained by other's handlers. She just has that enthusiasm and positive outlook that will draw people to her.
CanadaFreePress and Macleans are two vastly different
sources.
Dude. McCain was running against 0bama. Palin brought millions more votes to McCain.
Millions.
She will bring even more millions in '12 if she runs.
The importance of that information is impossible to measure.
The Palin vs. Obama strawman argument has been dismantled and comes across as sexist.
*should not be mere popularity contests but should be literally, hiring decisions for capable and competent leaders and managers.*
Sanford couldn’t even manage his personal life.
I did not vote for John McCain and I doubt you will find a more fiscally conservative person than myself.
I hesitate to call myself a social conservative, because while I am socially conservative in my own life, I am of the opinion that the government needs to stay out of people's private lives except where they might hurt others in a direct way. IOW: a Libertarian on social issues.
were there a lot of conservatives who werent fans of war hero w/ a track record of conservative positions? i havent met any.
Now you have. And if you lived where I live, in a military town, you'd have met plenty of active duty and retired military who didn't support McCain or Obama, including officers.
where are these conservatives who voted obama because of mccain?
Not voting for McCain does not mean that I, or anyone else who didn't vote for McCain, voted for Obama.
I am a conservative first, not a Republican. I owe nothing to John McCain beyond a heartfelt "thank you for your service". If the Republican Party and John McCain wanted my vote, they should have adopted and implemented conservative policies. They didn't, so I didn't (vote for them).
Oh, and I know we're in a recession and all, and money is tight everywhere, but if you wouldn't mind, splurge and get yourself a keyboard with both sets of letters included so that you can capitalize. It makes reading and replying so much easier.
While we are at let’s get rid of the PTL club wing of the party and concentrate on getting rid of government and not controlling people’s lives.
I knew you’d think so...I just knew it!
So you say, but I seriously doubt whether you looked before making that assertion.
It's fine. I'll find it myself. You just go on hating the best conservative prospect we've got for 2012.
LOL, I kind of liked that.
Are you in the habit of calling people you don’t know “idiot”?
The “PTL club” has ruined the Republican Party. Goldwater warned about it.
“”As a passionate defender of personal liberty, he saw the religious right’s views as an encroachment on personal privacy and individual liberties.[29] In his 1980 Senate reelection campaign, Goldwater won support from religious conservatives but in his final term voted consistently to uphold legalized abortion and, in 1981, gave a speech on how he was angry about the bullying of American politicians by religious organizations, and would “fight them every step of the way”.[30] Goldwater also disagreed with the Reagan administration on certain aspects of foreign policy (e.g. he opposed the decision to mine Nicaraguan harbors). Notwithstanding his prior differences with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Goldwater in a 1986 interview rated him the best of the seven Presidents with whom he had worked.
After his retirement in 1987, Goldwater described the conservative Arizona Governor Evan Mecham as “hardheaded” and called on him to resign, and two years later stated that the Republican party had been taken over by a “bunch of kooks”.[31] In a 1994 interview with the Washington Post the retired senator said,
“ When you say “radical right” today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.[32]”
Religon is for the home and church not for politics. All that religon has done for us is get people like Obama elected.
John
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