Polls of 2012 Republican contenders

13 Responses to Polls of 2012 Republican contenders

1. gneek says:

   September 2, 2009 at 7:42 pm

   Well this is just great. What we definitely need is Sarah Palin with her mission from god to be nominated as the GOP presidential candidate. Not only will we lose another election, but the image of the party will sink even lower.
2. Donna B. says:

   September 3, 2009 at 12:02 am

   This is all we’ve got? “Heaven” help us.
3. Xyz says:

   September 3, 2009 at 5:11 am

   Ron Paul in 2012!
4. Susan says:

   September 3, 2009 at 9:08 am

   Whatever Sarah Palin’s virtues or failings might be, she’s probably become too much of a laughingstock to be a serious candidate for national office.
5. David Hume says:

   September 3, 2009 at 11:04 am

   i don’t think we can project 2012 from 2009 with any degree of confidence.
6. Susan says:

   September 3, 2009 at 12:41 pm

   Nor do I. In 2005 no one was talking about Barack Obama as the next president.
7. Chris says:

   September 3, 2009 at 1:27 pm

   What does it take before people with some conservative views, but who consider themselves rational, cut themselves loose from the party of Palin?

   And what do they do then?
8. Palindrome says:

   September 3, 2009 at 7:03 pm

   I suspect the party of Palin has yet to show itself in all its bloom. This Alaskan woman has just barely tested her wings, lads and lasses. If you are so apparently frantic at this early stage, imagine the state you will be in by 2012 or 2014.

   You may consider cutting yourself loose from your unthinking prejudice, and start from a blank slate. There is something quite important that you keep missing. And I’ll never tell.
9. Susan says:

   September 4, 2009 at 7:43 am

   Don’t be coy…tell, tell.
10. Roger Hallman says:

    September 4, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    I’m no fan of Sarah Palin; to put it mildly I loath her–or at least what she represents–but I’m not about to count her out yet. Should she choose to run, she has a fanatical base of support that may be more passionate than Ron Paul’s was. I don’t think that she’d end up with the nomination, but she would probably have a run similar to Mike Huckabee’s 2008 primary run.

    I won’t vote for any ticket with Palin on it, the question is whether the GOP will have a palatable alternative for me to support? (Or at least, the alternative to a Palin ticket would have to be unimagineably bad.)
11. Susie Hollander says:

    September 6, 2009 at 10:26 am

    I suspect the picture will change dramatically between now and 2012 or 2016. Pundits are cluelessly naive when they try to predict future events in a time of rapid fundamental change. Blogs and journalists do this all the time.

    Whatever they think they know on this topic, jus’ tain’t so. Take a dram of humility and call me when you return to reality.
12. David Hume says:

    September 6, 2009 at 10:29 am

    .Pundits are cluelessly naive when they try to predict future events in a time of rapid fundamental change

    to be fair, i think on a deep level they know they’re full of crap. but they need to fill up air time or generate prose. “i don’t know” don’t sell.
13. Clark says:

    September 7, 2009 at 8:17 am

    I honestly can’t understand the appeal of Palin to a certain largish segment of the conservative base. But then I honestly can’t understand what’s going on right now. The appear to the conspiracy instinct in the base will prove to be short sighted I’m convinced. But then perhaps they saw how the conspiracy crowd in the left ended up being successful vis a vis the Iraq war. The difference there is that Bush was ridiculously incompetent in many ways. While Obama is struggling now, I’m not convinced it’s as bad as some Republicans hope. (i.e. in some ways it’s echoing the early 80’s rather than the early Clinton or post invasion Bush)

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