64% of republicans think palin should be nominee in 2012

[DesertFlower]

President Palin for 2012?
08/11/2008 19:39 - (SA)

Sarah Palin calls her critics "jerks" as she talks to the media at her office in Anchorage, Alaska. (Al Grillo, AP)
# Palin: My critics are 'jerks'
# 'Everyone wants to talk to her'
# Palin: Is SA a country?

Cape Town - Sixty-nine percent of Republican voters say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCain's bid for the presidency, even as news reports surface that some McCain staffers think she was a liability.

This is according to a report published by Rasmussen Reports, an electronic media company which specialises in opinion polling information.

Only 20% of GOP voters said Palin hurt the party's ticket, according the Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Six percent said she had no impact, and five percent were undecided.

Ninety-one percent of Republicans had a favourable view of Palin, including 65% who said their view is Very Favourable. Only eight percent had an unfavourable view of her.

When asked to choose among some of the GOP's top names for their choice for the party's 2012 presidential nominee, 64% said Palin. The next closest contenders were two former governors and unsuccessful challengers for the presidential nomination this year - Mike Huckabee of Arkansas with 12% support and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts with 11%.

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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2423236,00.html

[WI_DEM]

1. They can have her and nominate her in 2012 and allow President Obama

to campaign directly against her and win in a huge landslide.

[bdamomma]

2. repeating the same ole shows how insane they are.

[nxylas]

25. The far-right is blaming McCain

The refrain goes that "he was too liberal, if people had a real conservative like Palin to vote for, the Republicans would have won in a landslide". I guess I must have imagined Palin's name on the ticket.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. But how many Republicans are actually willing to identify themselves as Republicans???

So, of those that are willing, I could believe that 64% of THEM think the barracuda is the best thing since sliced bread.

[Rambis]

4. 64% of republicans are mental midgets

[DesertFlower]

6. my feelings exactly.

[goclark]

39. " Morans "

I love that photo, it speaks volumes about " No Child Left Behind."

[no limit]

5. I think your avatar goes well with this headline

[petronius]

7. 100% of Democrats agree - we barely scratched the surface of

the hilarity that was Palin...

[gollygee]

8. I hope so, because only 64% of Republicans will vote for her

Obama 2012!

[liberalhistorian]

9. The good news is that a majority of

Americans don't share that view and have a much more unfavorable, negative opinion of her. In fact, she was given as a major factor against McSame in all of the polling. The fringe factor of republicans that are so gaga over her are completely out of touch, as usual, and they do NOT put "country first." Quite the opposite, in fact, if they want such a woefully ignorant, unqualified, unprepared, ignoramus who's actually proud of her ignorance to be in charge.

[joeunderdog]

21. If you factor that currently only about 40% of Americans are Repug

then she will get about 35% of the overall vote.

That seems a bit high to me, but good enough for another Dem victory.

[goclark]

40. Like the ones that ran out to buy guns when our Party won

They are the "Children Left Behind" that America needs to educate.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. She's the best and the brightest that the GOP has...

They are up shit creek...

[Caliman73]

41. The Republicans have not relied on the "best or brightest" to win for many years.

I think not since Eisenhower have the Republicans had a nominee that had any real sense of history or any real accomplishments.

Their candidates have been a mix of political animals with low scruples like Nixon and ideologues like Regan and Bush Jr. Palin is just the lowest common denominator. She has no scruples and is all ideology and no heart or brain.

In contrast we had Kennedy who made us believe in the nation and in service, Johnson who gave us some of the most sweeping human service and civil rights legislation before his Texas ego got him stuck in Vietnam. We had Carter who was too smart and had too much heart for the times in which he served but who has become one of our greatest statesmen, and Clinton who gave us prosperity and a budget surplus.

Their devotion to Palin just shows their blind ideology and their utter stupidity.

[Hubert Flottz]

47. What I meant was, she is the best the GOP can come up with...

Like Bush and Cheney were in 2000.

The cream of the GOP's sickly crop of neoNutcases.

[Caliman73]

50. I understand what you meant.

The sad thing is that the Republicans have managed to win elections with the losers I mentioned. Unlike us, they are not motivated to get the best candidates possible merely the whack jobs that can best push their stupid agenda. Palin is the worst of the worst. Let's hope that we have learned some good permanent lessons about how to deal with the lunatic base of their party.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. Palin/Keys 2012 make it happen.

:crazy: :silly: :dunce:

[dbonds]

12. This is the direction I think they should go in.

I want to encourage this (for our benefit)

[DesertFlower]

13. i agree.

maybe she will chose joe the plumber as her running mate.

[Mike Daniels]

14. I have a feeling that Romney, Huckabee, etc aren't going to be as nice as Obama was

when it comes to airing out Palin's dirty laundry.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. She used to have an 80% approval rating in Alaska

for the exact opposite reason of why she has a 64% approval rating among the Republicans now. In her first two years as governor, she was bipartisan, cooperated with the Democrats in the legislature, kept divisive right-wing social political views out of the mix, touted our state's "socialist" Permanent Fund and then even upped it by another $1200 this fall.

It's kind of ironic that the national Republicans love her for the more sinister of her two faces.

[YOY]

16. and 100% of Democrats.

n.t.

[and-justice-for-all]

17. What they really mean is 2016...

Palin will fade out of existence.

[helderheid]

18. Oh, YOUBETCHA!!!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

19. Registered Repukes only make up 33% of the electorate.

[dkofos]

20. Good for them. Another loosing ticket.

[datasuspect]

22. 67% of republicans also thought forrest gump was a true story

98.76% of republicans are mouthbreathing assbags

[Juche]

23. 60-68% of republicans reject evolution and endorse creationism

What an amazing coincidence. Its almost the same % of republicans who are oblivious to science who think Palin would be a good nominee. Yet another reason to be a progressive.

[FLAprogressive]

34. What amazes me is the number of DEMS who don't believe in it. n/t

[zbdent]

24. can you say OBAMA RE-ELECTED???

[baldguy]

26. Please, please, please, please nominate Palin!

[Dukkha]

27. She might attend Wasilla Community College to learn geography

if he passes their entrance exam which involves wooden pegs and a board of holes.

[alphafemale]

48. Wasilla Grade School, actually. nt

[dysfunctional press]

28. add in the support of 100% of the democrats for a palin run, and she's unstoppable!

until the general election.

[snappyturtle]

29. GREAT! I hope she wins the nomination. Fours years won't be enough

time to bring her up to speed.

[CrispyQ]

30. The 64% who think that, don't have the attention span to make it through a 15 second commercial.

Her 15 minutes of fame is over. By 2012, they will be enthralled with their new shining object (whoever that is) & question, "Sarah who?"

[TexasObserver]

31. Which is, coincidentally, exactly the percentage of Republicans who have their head up their ass.

co-inky dink

[nxylas]

32. I know I shouldn't but....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129745/posts#comment

[Midlodemocrat]

33. Meh. That 64% will all be dead by 2010. As for me, I say, bring it on Sarah!!!!

You are the gift that keeps on giving.

[Chorophyll]

35. 64% of Republicans ALSO believe

Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a dinosaur. O8)

[jmowreader]

36. Quit laughing. Palin is a serious threat.

Sarah Palin is the George W. Bush the talibornagainn were sold. When Bush came in, the fundies thought he was going to ban abortion, put the Bible back in schools, all that. When Shrub got into office, he turned his back on them. Believe me, they're still pissed.

Next time, they're going to pick a fundie with a proven track record. Palin:

attempted to ban "Daddy Has Two Roommates" and "Pastor, I'm Gay" from the Wasilla library

attempted to ban abortion from the Matanuska-Susitna Valley

attempted to pack the Mat-Su Borough School Board with evangelicals

The tactics they will use are simple and devastating--I know they work, because they've worked before WAY too many times

1. They will credit Dipshit Dubya with any economic recovery President Obama manages to implement. (Remember, Clinton's recovery was Reagan's work finally coming to fruition, and Dubya's first three recessions were Clinton's fault.)

2. They'll comb every bill President Obama signs looking for bad stuff.

3. They'll credit every good thing Obama does to the Congressional Republican Caucus.

No, I'm NOT happy about the prospect of having to run against the entire Christian Right.

[struggle4progress]

37. Run, Sarah, run!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Mind_your_head]

38. 64% of the 22-percenters THINK?

I don't believe it!

[Solly Mack]

42. Yeah....but they're not too bright to begin with

[ColbertWatcher]

43. Hey, it's their party, they can do with it what they want to. n/t

[Skittles]

44. says a lot about their intelligence

yes INDEED :rofl:

[Joe the Liberal]

45. Please, please, please, please.....

PLEASE let her run in 2012, all of us should encourage her to run in 2012. That would be one easy election and for that reason I hope she does run in 2012, its not likely but it is possible.

[malaise]

46. THINK? Never ever forget that they 'thought' Bush

was going to be a great president. And don't forget that the same people didn't even want him near their convention or campaigning for Gramps. That you use the word THINKis mind blowing. The Rethug base do not think - they take orders. They are sheeple. They drink Kool-Aid.

[B Calm]

49. They think being ignorant is a virtue. . . .