Poll: Sarah Palin remains threat to Mitt Romney in potential GOP 2012 race

Romney leads all Republican presidential contenders

What contenders? I hadn't heard that anybody announced yet.

Go ahead Romney waste another what $50 mm of your own money between now and 2012. I want Jindahl.

Too bad for Romney he is not much of a threat to Sarah.

F Romney and his Romney care. Only liberals come from Mass.

I believe Romney had one of the lowest return on investments (in terms of votes gained per dollars spent) than any other candidate for the R nomination in a loooooong time.

If you cannot get people enthused enough to give you THEIR money, such that you have to spend your own, and if you cannot “sell” your “product” even after an expensive ad campaign- then maybe the problem isn't with the “customers” but with the product.

Former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney is locked in a statistical dead heat with Sarah Palin for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, despite the Alaska governor’s abrupt resignation last week, according to a new poll of Republican voters.

Time for Romney's henchmen to re-double the smear efforts on Palin.

Boston helps guide the GOP again.

If Sarah is in a 'dead heat' now, what's she gonna be when she really campaigns?

I think Romney is watching his dreams get crushed under a high heel.

LOL..pickin’ myself up off the floor over that one!

Mitt needs to take a charm course. He is as wooden as Al Gore used to me, before Al went nuts and accused Bush of treason.

How is this possible? Everyone “knows” Mitt is a nonstarter.

Why, just look at his record of failed programs.

Or that fact that his is rich, you just know somebody had to lose for him to get that rich.

Oh well, maybe he could elected to something in Utah - he did save thier bacon after all.

"Palin still led all potential candidates in favorability with 76 percent.
Romney was second with a 73 percent favorability rating.

The poll also found that 75 percent of voters believe a GOP candidate could defeat President Obama,
41 percent of whom said it was “very likely.”

It’s the media hard at work choosing the contenders, like last time.

One of the Big 3 will prevail in the 2012 primaries.

That they would even mention Myth Romney and Gomer “Fried Squirrel” Huckabee in the same sentence as Sarah Palin shows the denial the MSM is in. If the primaries were held today, Governor Palin would be the GOP standard-bearer by a landslide! Take a look:

Palin’s Support Rises Among Republicans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288360/posts

I did not know Pam Anderson had a pair of Tits

If Sarah is in a 'dead heat' now, what's she gonna be when she really campaigns?
I think Romney is watching his dreams get crushed under a high heel.

And this is coming from a Taxachusetts paper. I’m sure they’re reputable though. :)

Yeah, Pam Anderson's breasts are the perfect analogy for Mitt Romney --- they might look good, but when you get down to it, Romney is a big fake boob.

Jindal is one I can safely say has no chance. He is about as charismatic as a rusty tin can.

Romney would be an excellent Secretary of the Treasury.

There's something about a woman in waders.

It’s going to be Rick Perry.

I understand from Texans that Perry is not their favorite.

I was wondering the same thing. Is he self-appointed?

Why? Bankrupting a state is not exactly fiscal material.

go jindahl! palin has no chance except to play kingmaker.

I look forward to the contest.

Willard "Myth" Romney only got a "C" rating from CATO.
And that was BEFORE Romney's Socialized medicine and coverup of the BIGdig kicked in. .
[Note that the record also shows that Shapeshifter Romney also betrayed President Bush as Governor
(predicting what TeamROMNEY would do later in Election2008 to Gov. Palin, and every other GOP candidate).
Romney was against the conservative tax cuts.]

Here are the facts from CATO.

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

FACT: Romney had the opportunity to excel like Gov Palin,
but instead Romney was a piss-poor Governor who had to flee the state
because of his poor record, his destruction of the local GOP,
and his impositions of socialized medicine and gay marriage overiding the state Constitution.

Let's let Myth wreck the US economy like he did Massachusetts?

Mitt leads RINOs maybe but not Republicans.

Oh, I’d consider bankrupting Massachusetts an act of patriotism.

eCSMaster (RomneyBOT): "Oh, I’d consider bankrupting Massachusetts an act of patriotism."

So did carpetbagger Romney. You two must be close.

I would vote for Obama over Romney.

Really? Wow, that's a whole lotta hate there dude. What do you think of the MSM eviscerating Romney during the primaries? Please share your thoughts...

Romney would be an excellent Secretary of the Treasury.

Ye, let's have RINOs run the executive branch, so when they fail, Palin (and conservatives) get blamed.

What a great strategery. /sarc

Combining Pam and Myth Romney in my mind has ruined a perfectly good fantasy about a woman I wouldn’t touch in real life without a biohazard suit.

Scary. Romney is a bigger turn-off than Hepatitus-C.

MSM? I had no idea CATO was part of the MSM.

The MSM wants Romney so they can destroy him with what they have.

The real sickness is that Team Romney eviscerated Gov. Palin and her children
throwing Election2008 in Operation Romney-Leper.

Willard Brutus Romney

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

"Schmidt was importuned by several of the Republican aspirants for president earlier this year.
Mitt Romney sent him an antique chair to symbolize a seat at the table."

"Romney would not say whether he’d been vetted,
but did insist that the vice presidency was a subject he had never even so much discussed with McCain,
with whom he often tangled bitterly in the primary campaign.
So I tried another tack, recalling that I had been in a car with McCain and his then aide John Weaver,
reporting a piece for V.F. in the fall of 2006,
just after McCain delivered an address at Boston College’s opening convocation.
Weaver’s phone rang, and it was someone at B.C.,
informing him that Romney’s office had just called to ask when he would be invited to speak."

"Texan helped McCain secure Romney endorsement
AUSTIN – The decision by Mitt Romney to endorse John McCain didn't just happen, of course. It took a Texan who knows something about uniting fierce political rivals.
John Weaver, Mr. McCain's former political guru, was the intermediary who initiated talks between the two sides that led to Mr. Romney's announcement of support.
...Here's how the two came to make a joint appearance Thursday in Boston: Last week, Mr. Weaver got a call from McCain aides Charlie Black and Steve Schmidt, who asked if he would help broker an endorsement.
Mr. Weaver, who had left the McCain campaign in last year's shakeup, is a longtime friend of Beth Myers, Mr. Romney's campaign manager.."

Jonah Goldberg: "A Letter to Sarah Palin
Mitt Romney, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, Louisiana governor
Bobby Jindal, and other hands-on types are what the party wants and, frankly, needs."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

Scumbag 5th-columnist who attacked Gov.Palin, in the 6 weeks before the election,
throwing Election2008 with the rest of TeamRomney.

David Frum: "Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

Dittos and he is a quitter with a rolodex of principles. One for every occasion, no guarantee on having the same one twice.

That is not fair ... to Hepatitis C.

Wow, Sarah’s one point behind and she never even campaigned in the primaries.

No Romney. After Obama we’re going to need a real conservative!

I’m not a RomneyBOT. I’m 100% Sarah.

But I think Romney has some fiscal and business experience that would be valuable. As President, Sarah would have final say, but Romney could give good contributions.

Just my 2 cents - following Pres. Reagan’s eleventh commandment.

And this poll was taken AFTER she announced her resignation of Friday.

You are a RomneyBOT. No matter the facts. It shows, friend.

That is great thank you.