Liberals Want Sarah Palin to Be 2012 GOP Nominee, Survey Says
AP
If former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin decides to jump into the 2012 presidential race, liberals would be thrilled, an unofficial poll released today shows.
In a straw poll of attendees at the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas over the weekend, 48 percent of respondents said they'd like to see Palin as the Republican Party's 2012 nominee. Rep. Ron Paul came in a distant second, at 11 percent. Ten percent voted for Rick Santorum, 9 percent for Mitt Romney and 8 percent for Newt Gingrich. Seven percent chose Tim Pawlenty, while 5 percent said Mike Huckabee, and 1 percent said Rep. Mike Pence.
One name not on the list was Sen. John Thune of South Dakota. While he may not be on everyone's radar for 2012, DNC executive director Jennifer O'Malley Dillon said at the Netroots conference this weekend that Thune was the potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate who scares her the most. "John Thune is somebody that I have nightmares about," O'Malley Dillon said. "He has his head down and is doing some policy stuff."
More than 300 conference goers participated in the Netroots straw poll.
While some liberals have expressed dissatisfaction with President Obama and Democrats over the past year, those surveyed in the straw poll gave the president a strong approval rating of 84 percent. Sixty-eight percent named health care reform Mr. Obama's top accomplishment so far. Another 13 percent said the stimulus act was most important.
Nearly three-quarters said job creation should be the top priority for Congress and the president. Fifty-three percent said the economy is in a serious, long term decline, while another 33 percent said the economy will correct itself. When asked whether there should be more government investment, or cuts to government spending and taxes, in order to create jobs, 93 percent said more investment.
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However if the good Dr. doesn't run my guess is he will endorse Gary Johnson of New Mexico.
what I find most interesting is the fact that the MSM/GOP will continue to leave Ron Paul out of every GOP Presidential poll for 2012.
Now ask yourself this:
Ron Paul was the last Republican nominee standing except for McCain. Ron Paul beat out Huckabee, Romney, Guiliani and the rest. Easily.
So why won't they put one of the top candidates of 2008 on their poll.
They (MSM/GOP Leaders) still will not consider him a top contender because he doesn't fall in line with all the neocon BS.
Just watch.
Ron Paul will be ignored. Shunned. Left out of polls. Mocked. Insulted.
If he decides to run the GOP will fight against him even harder.
Just watch.
They are both full of cr@p
She's illiterate, unimaginative, and self centered!
Governor Murkowski's last budget FY2007: $11,697,400,000
Governor Palin's latest budget FY2010: $10,570,000,000
Total reduction in spending between 2007 and 2010: a whopping 9.5% or $1,127,400,000
A general rule of thumb for both liberal and conservative administrations is to claim that they may reasonably increase spending every year at a rate of 2% to 3% because of inflation and that should not count against them as increased spending. Even if we use the low end of inflation at 2%, Governor Palin's budget could have been (without calling it a spending increase): $12,413,374,459.20
Also feel free to name a few liberals that have made up cute names for people on your side. After all, one liberal speaks for all liberals, and if the liberals did it once then it's totally legit, right? It's logically impossible for a hypocrite to ever be right about anything!