Posted by
Allen Caeden on Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:32:06 PM
A Rasmussen Poll has things pretty much at a three way tie for a GOP 2012 primary. Rasmussen Reports:
“In a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, it’s close to a three-way tie when GOP voters are asked whom they would vote for – from among a list of six prominent Republicans - in the 2012 party primary in their state: 25% say Romney, while 24% say Palin and 22% opt for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.”
A few things should be noted about this poll, because questions need to be asked. Why did Rasmussen conduct this poll on monday, only four days after Palin's recognition, which also was a holiday weekend? This poll had what seems to me to be an intended bias against Sarah Palin because many of her supporters were still very much confused over Palin's decision and had not had time to get over the initial shock factor that even I was going through. In fact on tuesday the day the poll was released Sarah Palin gave about a half a dozen interviews clarifying her decision to resign, those polled did not have the benefit of such interviews because they were polled too soon. My guess is that if the poll was conducted today after the initial confussion, Palin would have won by a decent margin.
Another point is that while Romney may have scored 25% which is an insiginificant number in a poll like this, something needs to be pointed out. While Romney polled 25%, but between Palin's and Huckabee's poll numbers combined to equal 56% of those polled it can be safely said that they do not want Romney as the GOP candidate for 2012. Even if Romney wins the nomination (and pretty much every Washington Beltway GOP screwup seems to be backing this horse) one thing should be noted. Palin and Huckabee supporters are conservatives, whereas Romney's supporters tend to be more moderate. Remember Mitt Romney was quite the liberal until he decided he wanted to be president and flipped flopped on just about every issue. Did you know that Romney believes in socialized medical care? Yep "Romney Care" in Massachusetts has turned into an absolute nightmare, with only some 20% of people who think it is a "success". So why should we castigate Obama over socialized medicine and give Mitt Romney a pass? I could go through many policy and cultural issues of this sort concerning Romney.
I want to get back to my point which is that the Washington Beltway types should understand, there is no guarentee that Palin and Huckabee supporters will turn out for Mitt Romney in 2012, if he should win the GOP nomination. The GOP base is sick of having to elect RINOS and moderates to office. In 2006 many conservatives stayed home during the mid-term elections after Republicans led by George Bush cast aside conservatism and spent money like druken liberals. Many even bolted from the GOP all together, I was one of them. In the last election I would not have voted for McShame if it was not for Sarah Palin, and there were millions just like me. We are sick of phoney conservatives and so called moderates. If the GOP Washington Beltway types back Romney then you can be sure that they are still at odds with Reagan Conservatism and for this sin many (and I mean many) conservatives like myself will stay home instead of voting for another RINO phoney conservative, even if it means four more years of Obama. This conservative is done playing the GOP bulllll sh!!!!!t game.