Sarah Palin is the most popular (though most divisive) of the top GOP figures in the land, according to a new poll from Pew, which compared her to Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Michael Steele. This, of course, leaves out some other important GOP figures--most notably Mike Huckabee, whose strong showing in the 2008 GOP primary and continued presence on Fox News places him in the well-known category along with those four.
This comes after a June 2 CNN poll showed no clear frontrunner in the 2012 primary race, with Huckabee slightly ahead of the pack.
Here's how their favorable/unfavorables break down. Huckabee was included, along with Romney, Palin, and Gingrich, in an automated Public Policy Polling survey June 18, so I'll include his line from that survey*.
National fav/unfav % GOP fav/unfav %
Sarah Palin: 45/44 73/17
Mitt Romney: 40/28 57/18
Newt Gingrich: 35/38 55/22
Michael Steele: 23/14 28/14
Mike Huckabee*: 43/35 70/17
Palin edges Huckabee as the most popular among Republicans. They're both vastly popular among
Another tidbit from Pew's findings: public impressions of Palin haven't changed much since October, with her total favorability climbing three percent since then, compared to 10 percent for Romney since Feb. 2008. Those time periods are far different, but the way Pew presents it, Palin's public image has crystallized in a polarizing fashion, and the public has more or less made up their minds about her, one way or the other.
Two years from now oil is going to be north of 120 dollars a barrell and the Administration is going to be full of excuses, hemming and hawing. "Save or Create", that kind of nonsense. So will Sullivan and the people over at TMP and the State Run Media.
Registered Voters are going to be tired of the B.S. being spoonfed to them by the propaganda apparatus that the MSM set up to keep Obama in power.
Palin will look like the Prophet from Alaska. You heard it here first.
You should change your screen name from Section 9 to Section 8. Twenty years from now, oil will be less than $5/barrel. OPEC will no longer exist. And the memory of the criminal oilmen that ran this country into the ground between 2000-2008 will be a distant, shameful memory. And it will all be traced back to the renewal of America under the intelligent, thoughtful, and bold leadership of Barack Obama. Palin's very existence will guarantee Obama a second term and Hillary Clinton 8 years after that.
You read it here first. You are so far off the mark on *everything* you just wrote that wonder if you are just a comedian spoofing the Right's lame thought processes.
Bush/Cheney/Rove/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld were wrong about EVERYTHING but, at least, there was a level of intellect there, albeit misguided. Palin is a semi-retarded beauty queen who cant even read the script well, much less immprovise should she need to.
PLEASE, NOMINATE SARAH PALIN!. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!
Sarah Palin is far too polarizing a figure for 2012 and besides, she needs much more experience. The logical choice to lead the Republicans to victory is clearly Gov. Huckabee. He is winning poll after poll and his profile continues to grow with his speaking schedule, and television & radio presence. Importantly, he also has the appeal to Independents and charisma needed to defeat Obama.
FYI Gov. Huckabee is standing in for Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor on Thurs, July 2nd.
sarah needs more than experience. as heraclitus observed, 'drunkeness can be sobered, youth outgrown, ignorance taught, but stupidity is forever.'
Experience is not Gov. Palin's problem. She is an inflexable lightweight and will never be able to withstand the presure of a national campaign and come out with the support of the majority. 'No matter how far an ass may travel it will not return a horse.'
For a Democrat, there just can't possibly be better news. Sarah the Incoherent, on the ticket with Mike the Creationist. I just hope they are already nominated by the time one of them disappears to Argentina for a few days.
Sarah Palin will never be elected to any office outside of Alaska. She is a poorly educated, small town hillbilly with weird religious affiliation and glam looks. She makes good visual on television, but when she speaks, pweew, it stinks.
What's wrong with Romney? He has the best national numbers. Remember: very few people self-identify as Repubs these days.
Besides, he's the least insane. Not that he's sane, but he's within earshot of it.
Romney's a Mormon.
He believes:
1. God lives on a planet or star named Kolob.
2. God wants you to wear special underpants. Mitt is wearing these right now.
3. Joseph Smith, the church's founder, really did not want to start polygamy, but a powerful angel with a sword threatened him and made him do it.
You're right, though.
He is more sane than Huckabee, McCain, or Sarah Palin.
Who did Newt piss-off to have the highest unfavorable rating among the GOP base?