NewsMax Poll: Right-wing Nutjobs favor Condi Rice in 2008

[Ian David]

4. NewsMax Poll: Condi Best GOP Choice for 2008

Almost half the voters in a NewsMax Internet poll believe Condoleezza Rice should be the Republican candidate in the 2008 presidential election.

Just under 45 percent of respondents voted "Yes" to the question: "Do you believe Condi is the best candidate the Republicans could nominate?"

Trick question: The only candidates the Republicans can nominate will be ones that suck anyway.

When Rice was matched against five other potential GOP candidates, the results were:

* Condi Rice 35 percent
* Rudy Giuliani 21 percent
* John McCain 13 percent
* George Allen 10 percent
* Jeb Bush 6 percent
* Mitt Romney 4 percent

Did someone here DU this poll? Come on, be honest! Does this mean we all re-register as Republican and vote for Romney in the primaries?

Also in the poll, a whopping 91 percent of voters said they believe Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2008.

That's probably just what we WANT the Republicans to believe. I think Hillary is probably a Democratic Stalking Horse and that we'll nominate a "stealth candidate" at the last moment after the GOP has exhausted all their financial and political capital on personal attacks against her.

But when asked who they would vote for in a Hillary vs. Condi race, respondents - who numbered well over 150,000 - overwhelmingly chose Rice, 89 percent to Hillary's 11 percent.

Does that mean 11% of right-wing nutjobs will cross party lines just to vote against an African-American?

Condi has maintained that she has no interest in running for president, saying it is not "what I want to do with my life."

But political pundit Dick Morris told NewsMax: "Unlike in dating, 'no' doesn't always mean 'no' in politics."



Links intentionally left out.


Then again, this is NewsMax, and they might have just made-up all the numbers out of thin air.

[Nitrogenica]

1. She would DEFINATELY lose because of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_on_the_Record_Report

[BOSSHOG]

2. The only member of the admin is first in the poll

Obviously ignorant conservatives want to continue the same failed policies. If (and this won't happen), but if, kindasleezy won, the administration would remain the same - American hating neocons in positions of power.

Imagine - bush 43 as national security advisor to continue his long and distinquished service to merka!

[klook]

3. Ri-i-i-ight...

So, let me get this straight. The party of anti-abortion, woman-hating racists wants a pro-choice Black woman as their candidate??? OK, sure....

[efhmc]

4. OMG, the right would vote for a woman to have power over men!!!

Don't they know that that is in direct conflict to the paul version of the NT!!!

[givemebackmycountry]

5. Some things, you just can't explain away.

Case in point.

[warrior1]

6. Are they aware

that the majority of repukes are racist? IMO.

[eallen]

8. Don't know about that.

I keep hearing that. But I don't see much evidence for it, myself. It's a dangerous presumption to make, if it turns out to be wrong.

[warrior1]

10. Just my personal experience

They one's I know hate minorities. Some are members of my family, I'm sorry to say.

[tx_dem41]

13. I agree with you eallen.

We presume way too much around here.

[Einstein99]

12. The modern Repub Party was built on racism.

I grew up in Mississippi in the '50s and '60s when Mississippi was a one-party state. Finding a Republican was about as easy as finding a county sheriff who wasn't corrupt. When the Dixiecrats bolted from the Democratic Party over desegregation, the Republicans, led by Richard Nixon, welcomed them with open arms. It is no coincidence that Ronald Reagan opened his re-election campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., where Goodman, Cheney, and Schwerner were killed. The theme of his speech was "law and order," code for "keep the niggers in their place." Today it is very common to hear Southern Republicans say, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me," which is a euphemism for "The Democratic Party renounced segregation and racism, and I wasn't ready to move into the 20th Century, so I became a Republican." Now, I have known some some Northern Republicans who were reasonably decent people. But in the South, the Republican Party is the John Birch Society with a cloak of social acceptability.

[Capn Sunshine]

16. My RW Reagan republican focus groups

aka the senior members of my family and their friends, are truly representative of the Reagan Christian Right in California.

They would have serious trouble even voting for a WOMAN.

A black person? Forget it.

Direct quote from my informal candidate polling--this is about 30-40 seniors in So Cal , all affluent Ranger types---

"I would never, ever vote for a black person for president. Period."
And that in response to the Colin Powell question.

If they actually nominate Condi Rice, I agree with the poster down the line--it would mean they have brainwashing capabilities we can only dream of.

[onehandle]

7. They can't win without the South.

Not a chance of her being nominated.

[HillDem]

11. Especialy up against a southerer like Mark Warner

[punpirate]

9. Well, one thing's certain...

... they are friggin' gluttons for punishment.... :)

[Einstein99]

14. They don't know her

When the Repubs discover that Rice is pro-affirmative action, they will drop her like a hot potato. In fact, there is not one Republican on that list except Jeb Bush who stands a snowball's chance in hell of getting the Repub nomination. The Republican Party is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Pat Robertson-type loonies, and they will accept nothing less than a Sam Brownback or someone of that ilk. No matter who gets the Democratic nomination in 2008, he or she will be a shoo-in because the American people are finally tired of these Bible-thumping hypocrites telling them what to do.

[patricia92243]

15. If the Republicans in the South can get a black woman elected - my hat is

off to them. That will make them the best brainwashers on the planet, and everybody else might as well forget it.

Bigotry is alive and very, very well in the South.

[Totally Committed]

17. They are just floating bogus polls and hoping we'll believe them,

so we'll run Hillary. They even got Morris to wriite a book about the match-up.

Don't fall for this bullshit!

TC

[klook]

23. Bingo.

Hillary would be the Repulicans' dream opponent. For them a 2008 with Sen. Clinton plus gay marriage plus abortion would be the trifecta.

(edited for clarity)

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Go for it, Condi. It'll be fun to see the RW party sink your sorry ass.

A black?

A woman?

Ain't gonna play well in the RW.

[TheDonkey]

19. That would be so awesome if she won the primaries

McCain is the biggest threat. Condi would be destroyed in a general election.

I don't think she'll run though, she knows better.

[Ian David]

21. All we need to do to get rid of McCain is re-run Bush's negative ads

And also keep talking about how McCain supported Bush and Cheney.

[sendero]

20. Please please please..

... run Condolousy!

[leesa]

22. Good. She lied under oath to Congress. Should be fun.