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Fox News poll: 71% of Republicans don’t want Palin to run

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By David Edwards
Friday, September 2nd, 2011 -- 1:02 pm

A large majority of tea party members want Sarah Palin to stay out of the 2012 presidential race, according to a Fox News poll released Friday.

Among respondents who identified themselves as members of the tea party, a staggering 66 percent said that Palin should sit on the sidelines, while only 28 percent wanted to see her in the race.

Even more Republicans -- 71 percent -- thought she would be making a mistake by declaring her candidacy. In all, 74 percent of voters hoped she would not be getting in.

The former Alaska governor received her lowest support from non-white voters: only 13 percent were ready to give their approval to her candidacy.

"When I run into tea party people across the country, many of them tell me, 'Look, I love Sarah Palin. I hope she doesn't run for president,'" Republican strategist Karl Rove told Fox News' Gregg Jarrett Friday.

"I think her diminishing influence, these rising number of people who don't want her to run, is a result of her having a on-again, off-again tease. She ought to get in or she ought to get out."

The Hill's Christian Heinze suspected that the bad poll numbers might make Palin even more likely to run.

"That's because she hates being marginalized, under-appreciated, or dismissed," he wrote. "Politics is personal, but with her, it's extra personal -- that's one of the reasons why she reacts so vociferously to the slightest criticism"

Source: Rawstory.com

"LOL!!! Even her own Folks do not see her as a Leader worthy of their Sacrifice, Funny cos neither do I"
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45 comments // Fox News poll: 71% of Republicans don’t want Palin to run

  • grammabet
    • 0
      grammabet  
    • Run Sarah, run to the far side of the planet until they run you out.Take your dysfunctional family with you.Thanks Mc Cain for your contribution.

    • 9 months ago
  • jackshin
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      jackshin  
    • I am torn, if Palin runs, Obama is sure to win, but if a stronger puke candidate runs, at least it might force Obama to acknowledge the environmentalist, progressives; just maybe they could sit at the adult table for a change.

    • 9 months ago
  • Joeydee44
  • Patricia_Jaderborg
  • JustZ
  • PressCore
    • +1
      PressCore  
    • http://M.I.C.so

      At least not toward the cameras, anyway. For people who have
      a sharp memory, for not having their brain sucked out by the TV
      Hulu aliens, I recall some of the more prominent flash in the pan
      types who struggled to get their names on the ballot throughout
      the States. Bob Barr, a Congressman prominent during Clinton's
      era ran on the Libertarian ticket. He genuinely was against the
      2 or 3 egregiously Un American sections of the Patriot Act which
      the Court has struck down, and invalidated it as UnConstitutional.

      But the point is we still need a 3rd, 4th, and 5th viable political
      party in this country, as they have in European countries. One of
      the reason why the Corporatists found it too easy to dominate
      Republicans, and then Democrats, is because they make too big
      a target. Like Corporations themselves, their trend is to merge into
      even larger organizations, and to centralize. Ie to converge. For
      those who've studied the intentions of the founding free masons,
      they kept their commonwealths divergent by splitting up into more
      localized common causes. This might seem on it's face to be less
      efficient and slower, but it was less corruptable. Things were not
      perceived then as having gone past the point of no return. There
      were no Congresspeople as now talking about the new freshman
      classes presuming laws like the Patriot Act were supposed to be
      permanently set in stone like the 10 Commandments. I've listened
      to honest Congresspeople speak of sundowning laws when after
      their effects were experienced, they caused more harm than good.
      Do you see it happening anymore that bad mistakes in passing bad
      laws are later corrected ? We're likely to have Federal Reserve Act,
      Prohibition, the infamous Patriot Act with us until the USA crumbles.
      That's NOT evidence of a Democratic republic. It is evidence of a
      national insecurity state owned by foreigners not responding to us.

      When the USA didn't have a surplus of people, we did have several
      political parties. Now, with the Corporatist domination fueled by a
      foreign central bank fueling an M.I.C. run amok since 1965 in Vietnam,
      the Corporatists seek Monopoly control over all Americans. The 2
      original parties have the same name they did, supposedly the same
      general approach,but they're only a shadow of their original selves.
      it's closer to the truth to ask which one of them is or is not beholden
      to a Corporate lobbied special interest hovering above them, and a
      conflict of interest in serving the public & the USA before they serve
      themselves. N.Y.penal laws call that Bribery. However the doublespeak
      disguises it amounts to Rewarding Official Misconduct by it's m.o.. W/
      the 2 parties being dominated & synthesized into one Corporatist Party,
      we've had their encroaching domination since they killed Lincoln. It's
      only now we see the final result of it with candidates that should be
      applying for a job as circus clowns. If the advent of Corporate TV
      media has done anything, it's made the USA into a replica of Roman
      coliseum circus maximus. They too controlled their surplus population,
      and their civilization on the decline no longer producing anything with
      sport, bread/wine, invading countries to Pirate their wealth for Bribes.

      When you can count on 2 hands the number of H.R.Reps/Senators
      who have a national reputation for voting for We the People first,
      instead of having a designer label on them marketed by a Corporate
      interest, then you can understand why no Democrats have mounted
      a primary challenge to pinocchiobama, and why Republicans have such
      a bad reputation for misusing a viable Western political attitude to back
      oligarchies, and their encroachment seeking to return us to the feudal
      order, which is only another form of slavery. It's why our economy is
      so crapped out, and so many people are out of work. Despite what
      Nobama tells you about prosperity being only around the corner IF
      and Bachman too, they're both puppets in a Show Biz media farce.

      I recall as Palin was running toward the oval office, MSNBC sponsored
      her pitch: " Why don't we drill for more Oil already in our back yard ? "
      And media idiocy like: " God wants us to send our children to die as
      heroes in Iraq to secure Oil " But I never heard the stupid bitch, or any
      other candidate, run on a platform of making the USA independent of
      foreign oil, foreign banks, foreign products, and their NWO wannabes.
      So now they've got an idiot like Bachman to take the idiot we know as
      Palin's place. Wow ! What an improvement. Now we've got another
      stupid bitch greedy for EZ money w/ speaking engagements to keep
      their ratings as Palin did. And now we've got a big Corporatist puppet
      like Romney proud he's their bought stooge. I wouldn't support Ron
      Paul for President, but I do support his 3 main stances. No offense
      meant to the man. I was a citizen of Texas once, and voted there. (Once
      a citizen always a citizen. Same with Colorado. I'm a Westerner.) The
      world is a smaller place in the 21st century, and as my true friends
      have said: I think big, and I climb high. For that I DO NOT support the
      status quo out of respect for the USA. What I do support is a 3rd, 4th,
      and 5th party., And the idea if you can't afford satellite TV service, trade
      it in exchange for charitable donation to support the SPCA. Palin can
      drill in Wasilla for oil. Support a Sanders/Kucinick ticket as a primary
      challenge to Nobama/Biden. Unless you think your country isn't worth
      having honest, quality, upright men w/ a spine in power., Deserving only
      mediocrity & a decline like your bank card as it runs out of credit/credibility.

    • 9 months ago
  • EmperorThan
  • PressCore
  • squarethecircle
  • EdJoyProductions
    • +3
      EdJoyProductions  
    • 100% of rational people would not only never want to see this nit wit run for any office ever again but would appreciate it if the media would stop covering her. With every appearance that is televised, her already mentally challenged followers lose an IQ point. They can not afford to lose too many more or they will be reduced to slobbering lumps capable only of involuntary brain function.

    • 9 months ago
  • PunxatawnyPhil
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      PunxatawnyPhil  
    • EdJoyProductions:

      What do you mean "will be" reduced? For they know not what they do (or promote).
      To operate on one level, and no interest what-so-ever of even looking for a better view, oh the arrogance. But confidence is not a problem for they are all knowing. They have faith.
      But you do know what Einstein said about doing the same thing over and over?

    • 9 months ago
  • Visionra
  • EmperorThan
  • KB723
  • pissedoffinarkansas
  • ThirdSection
  • KB723
  • PunxatawnyPhil
  • nardo1224
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      nardo1224  
    • DUH! Sarah was never a serious candidate, she is just playing those simple minded people to get speaking engagements in order to enrich herself.

    • 9 months ago
  • KB723
  • nardo1224
  • PunxatawnyPhil
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      PunxatawnyPhil  
    • nardo1224:

      That is only part of it, imo. She really thinks she's a crusader for the cause (along with tadd) and will continue until it is a negative in her life overwhelming the "enrichment". She has it strong in her, the spirit that is, ha ha. But they are both clueless shallow thinkers.

    • 9 months ago
  • dugdog47
    • +3
      dugdog47  
    • Sarah Palin-"I can see Russia offa my back porch don't ya know. I'd make a great president, you betcha. Just cause ask my daughters are pregnant teenagers doesn't mean I can't lead the free world ooh ya. You know who I love,Paul Bunyun fer sher."

    • 9 months ago
  • dugdog47
  • RevKen
    • +6
      RevKen  
    • The irony here is that had she remained Gov. of Alaska she would likely be the front runner right now. I knew as soon as she quit to go on the lecture circuit she would talk her way out of contention.

      She should have kept her ass up north and proven the old axiom that it is better to be silent and thought a fool then to open your mouth and prove it.

      She would have been great for the comedic value but with Ms. Bachmann and Mr. Perry in the race we really are not lacking for a good laugh.

    • 9 months ago
  • bike10
  • Buckeye_Bill
    • +4
      Buckeye_Bill  
    • Like a bent penny, she'll always turn up. She just needs to hit the trail and stir things up again.

      That's what Sarah is good for. Her message of hate travels far and wide to find her. It's like old friends that haven't seen one another for a while!

      The MSM will not show the true depth of the hatred that the Tea Hadists have burned deep within their souls for our President. They're afraid that thinking people may be swayed by what is out here in the world of those who fear Mr. Obama and what he represents to them and then where would their "money story" come from?

      You can't sell commercial time if there's no contentious division between the voters, now can you?

      Now here we are with a new form of disrespect for the President. The Speaker of the House tells the President that he can't come before the House to deliver a speech on his new jobs program. And what would a peson who sees this lack of respect that Boenher has shown the President do but encourage THEM to be just as disrespectful to the Office of President, too!

      Hatred spreads like an epidemic of disease. It can be just as rampant as fear.

      When will it all end? How will it all end?

      Just asking.....

    • 9 months ago
  • nanac
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • EarnestT
    • +1
      EarnestT  
    • Oh Please run Sarah,please,pretty please. We need the comic relief,and with you,The Mega Mind of Minnesota Bachmann,and Rick"the Wack-A-Doodle from Waco" Perry we`d get more laughs than a ferret running loose in G.Duh-Bya`s pants! "Oh we are morons tried and true,we will do our cheer for you",DDDUUUUUUUUHHHH! Hic!

    • 9 months ago
  • coolplanet
  • oldbanjo
    • +6
      oldbanjo  
    • I would like her to run, the stupidity of her Bachmann and Perry would be entertaining. It would be like a three Stooges movie.

    • 9 months ago
  • EarnestT
  • dugdog47
  • CreditFigaro
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      CreditFigaro  
    • Hmm, I think 71% of democrats probably say the same thing.

      She really is hot, though. I would love to see her milfy goodness in a debate with Kucinich. (who is also quite the ladies' man, I hear)

    • 9 months ago
  • KB723
  • Tuppy54
  • KB723
  • Scott_Pert
  • KB723
  • Hardytoo
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      Hardytoo  
    • KB723:

      Yes - if there's any hope in prayer, I'm praying she will run - just for the comedy of her speeches! Just think what laughs there'd be if she debated Bachmann!!! 'Tis the stuff of dreams!!!!!!!
      Great post.

    • 9 months ago
  • KB723
  • moodyblue
    • +4
      moodyblue  
    • How Palin reads the results - 29% would vote for me and I can probably bullshit another 20% so it should be a sure thing. Palin 2012!

    • 9 months ago
  • KB723
  • KB723
    • +2
      KB723  
    • Fox News poll: 71% of Republicans don’t want Palin to run

      "LOL!!! Even her own Folks do not see her as a Leader worthy of their Sacrifice, Funny cos neither do I"

    • 9 months ago
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