A Party Divided Against Itself.

Pundit Press ^ | 1/21/2011 | Timothy Knight

[therightliveswithus]

The Washington Post has released a poll detailing the divided nature of the Republican Party as we move closer to selecting our 2012 Nominee. Three candidates are statistically tied at the top: Huckabee (21%), Palin (19%) and Romney (17%), while ten other candidates pull in another 30% of the vote.

The Republican Party cannot afford another unsupported Nominee at the top. John McCain was unable to reach 50% of the Primary vote in 2008, even though his main competition in the final months was Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul. This cost us dearly: millions of Republican voters did not come out to support their Nominee on election day.

[digger48]

The only ones pushing Huck, are the pollsters and....Huck.

[Onelifetogive]

Party Unity is easy. Everyone simply needs to go alone with what I want.

[Grunthor]

“Three candidates are statistically tied at the top: Huckabee (21%), Palin (19%) and Romney (17%), while ten other candidates pull in another 30% of the vote.”

Of the three I’d vote for Palin in the primary. In the General? Anybody but Obama.

[tgusa]

“The Republican Party cannot afford another unsupported Nominee at the top.”

In a nutshell, that’s the problem. What to do? Well - start with NOT NOMINATING ANOTHER WRINKLED OLD WHITE GUY!! Morons. Full disclaimer: I’m a wrinkled old white guy so I can legally say the above.

[The_Victor]

The Republican Party cannot afford another unsupported Nominee at the top. John McCain was unable to reach 50% of the Primary vote in 2008, even though his main competition in the final months was Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul. This cost us dearly: millions of Republican voters did not come out to support their Nominee on election day.

What cost the GOP dearly was allowing the democRATs a voice in picking our candidate.

[reasonisfaith]

There is only one potential candidate with the intensity and the star power to win in a landslide.

[Onelifetogive]

What cost the GOP dearly was allowing the democRATs a voice in picking our candidate.

Close...

What cost the GOP dearly was allowing RINOs to give the democRATs a voice in picking our candidate.

[Billthedrill]

What cost the GOP dearly was allowing the democRATs a voice in picking our candidate.

Yep. And that's just exactly what they're trying to do now. So far they're getting away with it, too.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Honestly, if Palin were to decide NOT to run, but to endorse a single conservative candidate, that would result in a coalescing of support around that candidate by the Tea Party conservatives and BLOCK Mittens from winning merely by being the last man standing due to conservatives splitting their votes among too many candidates.

[lurk]

Why aren’t any true conservatives, other than Palin, stepping up? Are they afraid of the media abuse?

[Padams]

How many Democrats actually did cross over in 2008? I would bet not as many crossed over as many here believe. The Democrats were too occupied choosing between O and Hilary. I doubt many wasted votes on the Republican side in the open primary states.

I believe we got McCain because some of the early contenders couldn’t get enough name recognition and funds to compete (Hunter for example). Guiliani had the worst campaign stategy ever. Thompson just didn’t want it as much as his wife did. Paul was seen as too much of a fringe candidate. Huck, seeing that he couldn’t win outright, helped eliminate Romney. The last guy standing was McCain. It’s not the left’s fault that we ended up with a dud nominee. It’s our side’s fault.

[puppypusher]

Sure the Republican party maybe divided,So what.So are the dem’s.

[Theodore R.]

I agree, the culprits of 2008 were the Republican primary voters themselves being so uninformed and unimaginative.

[JoeFromSidney]

We mustn't let the MSM select our candidate again. The only reason the Huckster and Mittens are as high in the polls as they are is that the MSM keep touting them. They have name recognition. It's only political junkies who have heard of Pawlenty, Pence, Jindal, or DeMint. We need to get the names of genuine conservatives out in front. Right now, getting the names out is more important than getting the people with the names to commit to running. If those people see their names rising in the polls, some of them will decide to toss their hat in the ring. Name recognition first; commitment second.

[oldbrowser]

As I recall, we were teaching the GOP a lesson. All of the single issue voters were calling each other RINOs and promising to stay home unless their favorite was nominated.

So we ended up with the MSM's choice.

Unless an outstanding candidate emerges we will probably do the same thing this time. At present we only have one possible candidate with enough star power to crush the rats. But she is all or nothing, if she stumbles she could sink the whole ticket.

If the establishment GOP were to run interference for her she could make a great president.

[83Vet4Life]

Most FReepers won’t admit it, but a big part of the reason we got McCain was because of... Fred Thompson.

We had the perfect candidate in Duncan Hunter, but along came the Hollywood Star and his glamorous young wife and you fell for it. FReepers became FRedheads overnight, throwing Duncan under the bus.

So what happened? Thompson took a dive and endorsed his buddy McCain. FReepers who swore they would never support Flip Romney or Traitor McCain proceeded to embrace one then the other. At least I can say my conscience is clean, Hunter was my write-in vote.

[Boogieman]

“We had the perfect candidate in Duncan Hunter...”

I’m sorry, Hunter is a great conservative, but he never had a chance as a presidential candidate.

[teancumspirit]

I will be upfront, I don’t care who it is, Palin, Hunter, Brewer, or someone I really don’t know. This is what I want, someone who can read a balance sheet! Someone who stands up for what is right, regaurdless of what the polls say. I want a President who says the buck stops here, and means it. I want some mean onery bas*&^ered, who will stand up and be counted to do the right thing. FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION!!!