Bring Palin Back in 2012, Poll Says

[Hissyspit]

Source: St. Petersburg Times

Bring Palin back in 2012, poll says

By Alex Leary, Times staff writer
In print: Sunday, November 30, 2008

No sooner had Barack Obama won the presidential election than pundits started looking to 2012 and possible Republican challengers.

A Gallup Poll asked people to rank the top 10 candidates they would like to run. Topping the list: Sarah Palin (67 percent), Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.

Second to last: Gov. Charlie Crist (23 percent), one below former Gov. Jeb Bush (31 percent). The telephone poll was taken Nov. 5-16 and included 799 Republicans and GOP-leaning independents, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article920456.ece

[rockymountaindem]

1. Bring it

She'll be lucky to win 10 states.

[torbird]

27. Oh please oh please oh please.... n/t

[codjh9]

2. I don't know what morans the Gallup people talked to, but 67% of the general public would NOT have

said they want Palin running - we just proved that!

[w4rma]

10. She's got 2/3's of the Republican Party backing her. (nt)

[izquierdista]

22. And ALL of the Democrats

Ya sure, youbetcha! :rofl: :rofl:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. can we stand seeing her on TV again

[thecrow]

47. If you remember, we didn't see that much of her

She wouldn't give interviews until AFTER the election
All we saw on tv was her outrageous lying... which was a boost for Obama!

But, yeah, hey, I don't 4 years is long enough to get her nasal whininess out of my head.
Maybe she will go away.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

72. no, we kept seeing her photo

[struggle4progress]

31. GOP Faithful Like Palin, Romney, Huckabee in 2012 (Gallup 21 Nov)

Palin leading contender among conservative Republicans
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ -- Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are most interested in seeing Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee run for the party's presidential nomination in 2012 ...

http://sas-origin.onstreammedia.com.nyud.net:8090/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/ckbu1uqibkmc-cxyy96laq.gif

... Results for this Gallup Panel study are based on telephone interviews with 799 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, aged 18 and older, conducted Nov. 5-16, 2008. The survey was the post-election phase of a pre-/post-election survey of approximately 2,000 Gallup Panel members ...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/112252/GOP-Faithful-Like-Palin-Romney-Huckabee-2012.aspx

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[Political Tiger]

36. "Moderate/Liberal Republicans"

Such a thing exists? ;)

[Trajan]

38. Yes .... They were drummed out in the 70's ....

They were known as 'Rockefeller Republicans' ....

Democrats have more or less replaced them ....

[caseymoz]

39. They certainly didn't sway the stats much from the conservatives

I mean, 73 percent of conservatives wanted Palin back and 48 percent of the mod/libs. So the combined stat is 68 percent. Looks like moderate/liberal Republicans are an endangered species.

[and-justice-for-all]

57. What a sorry ass list that is....

Those people are a step backward and would literally destroy us.

Those folks do not even deserve to stand in the same room or even share the same air as Obama.

Anyone who thinks Palin is Presidential material, must have an IQ of 30 or less.

[struggle4progress]

62. I think Rs deliberately picked Reagan and Bush II as distracting "empty suits"

whose idiotic babble would draw opposition attention while second- and third-tier appointees did their damage unnoticed

Palin might be favored for the same reason: while we fumed at the crap she babbled, her underlings would be free to go about the R's country-wrecking work

[Critters2]

67. I would. Run, Crazy Sarah! Run! nt

[lob1]

3. I've been know to vote for the lesser of two evils,

but I've never, ever voted for the stupider of two evils.

[Ms. Toad]

65. Unfortunately, I have.

The stupider of two evils happened to be Democratic - the contrast was about the same as Obama v. Palin - with the D's IQ being equivalent to Palin's. In voting for hin, I figured I could count on him to vote the party line. He mostly did, but he also introduced (and in some instances got passed) some of the most asinine legislation I have had the displeasure of encountering.

The jury is still out on whether I would make the same choice a second time. Fortunately, the contrast in brain power is not usually so stark.

[Aristus]

4. Bring her on. In debate against Joe Biden, she failed miserably. Against President Obama

how can she do anything but fail spectacularly?

[smoogatz]

5. The sad fact is, she's the best they've got.

Oy.

[caseymoz]

40. That's not sad, that's kharma.

[DemoTex]

71. GOP: The Kharma Bums

Apologies to Jack Kerouac.

[qwlauren35]

51. What makes her better than Huckabee?

This is truly idle curiosity.

I would like to give my enemies more credit than *only* having Sarah Palin to choose from.

I refuse to believe that it is impossible to be fundamentalist and respectably intelligent.

Rare, okay. But not impossible.

[Mike Daniels]

55. Based on comments from FR, she has tits (which makes her better than Huck)

Huckabee proved he can hold his own in a debate which Palin failed to do.

The only reason Palin gets the fundy vote over Huckabee is because she's better looking and they think that looks will win her the election despite the results of this year's contest.

[Acadia Blue]

61. Huckabee, at least, is not hate filled like she, and is sort of a semi-

populist in the economic sense. She is a populist in word but not in the economic sense. I think all the repubs are horrible.

[smoogatz]

63. Huck is regarded as "soft" on immigration.

So not a perfect match for the base. He's also, frankly, a bit too much of a brainiac for them. Palin is the complete package: proudly ignorant, racist, and a full-blown fundie nutball.

[JeffR]

6. Probably a poll of Democrats.

I'd be thrilled if she ran, you betcha.

[lib2DaBone]

7. Wal-Mart Shoppers in NY Love Sarah Palin.....

it's a Race to The Bottom in the United States.

[Patchuli]

21. I stand corrected...

but still I wish WalMart would go away...

*edited for errors*

[caseymoz]

41. Don't look now, we might all be Wal-Mart shoppers next year.

Five major retailers are in bankruptcy and ten more might not make it to January.

[Patchuli]

66. I got Target! I hope I got Target...

I'm bummed about losing Mervyns...sigh. That store could always be counted on for nice looking clothes at good prices. I bet I'll be shopping on the 'net even more.

[NYC Liberal]

8. If they nominate Palin, it'll only show that the Republicans haven't learned at all

Americans got fed up with the negative shit this year. And that's with Palin only in the race for 8 weeks, and not even in control.

Do they really think Americans will vote for her after hearing that shit, and probably even worse, for over a YEAR? As if.

[HopeHoops]

9. Wait a minute! How come the only people in the poll were late night comedians?

[NOW tense]

11. Does she want another shot at the HATE crown

[givemebackmycountry]

12. Once again my long held belief is reinforced.

Like my boy Bart at Bartcom.com I too believe that:

THIS IS ONE EXTRA STUPID COUNTRY.

[Submariner]

13. Jeb Bush (31 percent) ?

Another Bush should NEVER contemplate another run for the presidency. Dubya has screwed the Bush legacy FOREVER.

[not fooled]

24. Hey, there's the silver lining

Dubya has screwed the Bush legacy FOREVER.

to 8 years of misery

[No Elephants]

73. I thought Grandpa and Great Grandpa Bush had screwn the Bush

legacy, but Poppy and Dummya got elected anyway. http://larouchepub.com/other/2000/2733_prescott_bush_hitler.html

[JeanGrey]

14. Told you so. She isn't finished by a long shot and will

be back.

[BearSquirrel2]

17. She's done the way Dan Quayle was done ...

She's a political zombie now. No one inside the party will help her. But she has plenty of people to carry her torch. She has the same national political prospects as Rudy Giuliani.

[JeanGrey]

52. I totally disagree. She is quite dangerous.

[struggle4progress]

33. No Clamoring for Palin to Become a National Political Figure: But she enjoys support of

three-quarters of Republicans
November 13, 2008
by Frank Newport ...

http://sas-origin.onstreammedia.com.nyud.net:8090/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/guxevkaphuoevhqc7vhlxw.gif

http://sas-origin.onstreammedia.com.nyud.net:8090/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/jzqyedhiyuqh7d0b3soyag.gif

... Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,010 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted Nov. 7-9, 2008. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points ...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/111883/no-clamoring-palin-become-national-political-figure.aspx

[JeanGrey]

53. Exactly. And depending on how the next four years go she

could very well be a major force to be reckoned with.

[Fearless]

15. Please do... It will make an Obama win that much easier.

[BearSquirrel2]

16. Pawlenty ...

Pawlenty will be up on the list as will Huckabee. An upper Midwest Republican could put a serious dent into a Democratic stronghold. BTW, if they could run Schwarzenegger, they would. A Republican being able to take California is a backbreaker for Democrats.

BTW, lets all keep our eyes on Congress. There will be plenty of guys posturing for "party leader" status in chambers.

Republican insiders KNOW that Palin is an idiot. I would expect them to undermine her efforts before she even begins. I don't think they want any more populist "mavericks".

[gabby garcia]

18. i wonder how much

"work" she'll have done by 2012.
She's not getting any younger and the appeal may be wearing by then.

[rurallib]

19. Many repubs are thoroughly convinced that they are not right wing enough

and Sarah is the only one that can move them that way. For the life of me I can't imagine what they want? Taxes paid directly to them? Stocks and public humiliations in the town squares? Moving as close to slavery as they can without actually calling it slavery?
One thing for sure - the media will be on their side no matter how wacky it is.

[DBoon]

50. I work with a couple of these clowns

and the answer is "yes" to all of the above. I get to listen to these guys praise countries like Singapore for nearly beating some teenager to death for petty vandalism

You forgot to include bombing random countries back to the stone age. They support that as well.

I think the base of the republican party consists primarily of people with anger management problems

[santamargarita]

20. I did enjoy her Thanksgiving video, wonder what she'll do for Christmas?

:crazy:

[struggle4progress]

26. After that, the prospect of her issuing Presidential pardons is terrifying

And now, live from death row, here's President Palin with an important message about pardons

[truthisfreedom]

23. Whack-job Palin is perfect... She distracts and bamboozles them, and then they lose lose lose.

She'll never win a major race.

[mitchum]

28. The religious lunatics are no longer content to be the dupes of the GOP...

they now want to run the party.
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of larcenous motherfuckers gathered in that big tent (which reeks of elephant shit)

[Dukkha]

29. I was expecting to see the PBS poll return

NOOOOOOO!

[Capt. America]

30. Please Jesus, let Sarah be the standardbearer for the Rethugs in 2012!

[AnnieBW]

32. She's the gift that keeps on giving

And hopefully we'll have her around for a long time to come!

[Joey Liberal]

34. Bring her back for more laughs - the GOP will never learn nt

[onehandle]

35. Palin 2012 = 40+ Blue States. nt

[sofa king]

37. No! Don't do it!

She'll win easily and thwart our plans for Communist domination.

[Lithos]

42. Okay when you say Republicans and GOP-leaning independents

You mean those would have admitted that in 2006, or the much smaller number who will admit it now? Those who will admit to being Republicans today only amount to about 25% of the population and most of those seem to be just the wacko religious nuts.

L-

[caseymoz]

43. The future for the Republicans is bleak.

I can't wait for the Palin/Quayle ticket in 2012.

[BumRushDaShow]

44. Be careful what you wish for

That Gallup has a near-statistically insignificant difference of "independents" considering her "favorable" vs "unfavorable".

IMHO, aside from Mooselini's utter epic fail stupidity, alot of repukes and indies voted against that ticket because of McKKKlan. If she flames out before 2012, then fine. And no matter what these FReepers demand, they ain't gonna put her at the top of a ticket. They profess faux "diversity", but after this last massacre, they may try to play it safe in their sexist way. And if they stick a "reasonable" repuke on there with her as a VP choice, then it may be a different story come 2012 regarding reelection. But if they do another Hail Mary and stick someone like Jindal on with her, then the fiscal conservative wing's heads will explode and Obama would have a landslide.

[livetohike]

45. Palin has four years to get a brain - it's not long enough

Until she can converse intelligently on any issue, she doesn't have a chance of surviving a Republican presidential primary.

Her schtick of junior high school cheerleader cuteness has run its course.

[BlueManDude]

46. Gingrich will make a serious run at it. Haley Barbour will also take a sniff.

[rocktivity]

48. Gingrich would be even better than Palin!

Or maybe they'd run together!!!!

:bounce:
rocknation

[sofa king]

49. It'd never work.

Gingrich can't stay faithful to a woman for four years.

[IndianaGreen]

54. I like to see Sarah in a porn flick

shooting game while in the buff.

[and-justice-for-all]

56. LOL, Really? is that all they got??? falin Palin??

how pathetic.

The GOP will not be makin' any grand return anytime soon. NeoConservationism is going through its death throes as we speak, no one wants to live under their fascist idea of America...NO ONE.

[Stump]

58. Idiots...

Spells good news for US.

[Vidar]

59. Why not? We need a good joke every 4 or 5 years.

[woo me with science]

60. I think they polled a bunch of Democrats.

:rofl:

[sakabatou]

64. If she's going to be the Repub candidate

she's going to be toast.

[boilinmad]

68. I saw an interview....

...with Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, and couldn't help but think what a pathetic mess Sarah Palin would be if, god forbid, she were president of the United States, and had to have any sort of conversation with the brilliant Mrs. Robinson. Lets just hope it never happens, for the whole world's sake.

[LynnTheDem]

69. Wow, liberals sure punked that poll!

Of course we want the palin' back in 2012!

PALIN'! PAILIN'! PALIN'!

[Vinca]

70. Either Gallup polled Dems or the GOP is dumber than we think. nt

[Thor_MN]

74. With her penchant for droppin 'g's in 'ing' endins

Shouldn't we be calling her Paling when speaking?