Is Sarah Palin popular among Republicans?
In the poll, taken amid the media whirlwind surrounding the release of her memoir “Going Rogue,” more [Republicans and Republican-leaning independents] cite Palin than other Republicans as best reflecting the party’s core values and as the top vote-getter in hypothetical presidential nomination contests. But on neither question did she exceed 20 percent backing among all Republicans.
I think these results say more about the lack of leadership and direction in the Republican Party than they do about Sarah Palin’s popularity or electoral prospects. I think there was a point in 2002 when Joe Lieberman was polling as a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. It didn’t mean anything except that a lot of people knew him from his turn on the 2000 national ticket. Palin is ahead in these polls, but her support is weak. The GOP’s leadership is so discredited that mere fame is enough to give the misleading appearance that Palin is popular.
Just 1 percent pick George W. Bush as the best reflection of the party’s principles, and only a single person in the poll cites former vice president Richard B. Cheney. About seven in 10 say Bush bears at least “some” of the blame for the party’s problems.
That’s 1% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who think Bush represented the party’s principles. Cheney does even worse. This probably explains why we hear so much about Ronald Reagan.
Something has changed though. Dan Quayle is the American politician whose career most nearly resembles Sarah Palin’s. He was selected as a running mate without adequate vetting, he proved to be totally out of his league as both a candidate and a vice-president, and he looked to compensate for his weaknesses by pandering to the furthest-right reaches of the GOP base. But Quayle pretty much faded from view once Clinton and Gore defeated him in 1992. I don’t think Palin plans on fading from view.
Quayle may have faded from view, but his chief-of-staff soldiers on.
She will not fae from view. Good point, but where will she be? I think this is a pretty good bet —
http://www.gazette.com/articles/dobson-89800-gop-new.html
because the linking of the names Palin and Dobson is not random. With all the problems Palin stirs up, you have to ask yourself, where is the real center of her support? It is in such organizations as the Council for National Policy, the Focus on the Family, and the Constitution Party. If there was one person who was responsible more than anyone else for shoehorning Palin into the GOP VP nomination last year, it was James Dobson, with the support of the Council on National Policy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/how-sarah-palin-made-hers_b_358434.html
That article almost makes you feel sorry for them…….ehhhhh, maybe not.
When the only issue on which there is widespread agreement is the loathing of the mainstream media, you know you’re a party with problems.
I’ve tried a couple of times to have a discussion with a very conservative relative about media bias. And when I tried to explain my view that, for the most part, the national media is instinctively wired to push a Republican political narrative (and have been since at least the Reagan years), I thought his head was going to explode.
It was at that point I realized this was an issue which would never be resolved.
This survey seems to confirm that thought.
Palin’s choice for ghostwriter says alot:
http://gawker.com/5371146/sarah-palins-ghostwriter-pals-around-with-racists-and-wackos
As one bright person put it a hundred or so years ago: “man would rather will nothingness rather than not will at all”.
Sounds like Nietzsche…
She’s faded already, people just keep jacking up their TV’s color saturation because the black and white version has grown boring.
The GOP doesn’t love Palin at all. The people who love Palin are the ground troops who tend to vote against their own economic interests in “Real America.” They are not the GOP. The GOP is people like Gingrich, Inhofe, Boehner, Cantor, etc. The power center of the GOP hates Palin and fears what she represents, which is why the press still has the green light to bash her. If she had the support or, rather, “love” of the GOP, someone in a position of power would have pulled the plug on people in the press writing negative stories on her. GWB had people on the inside in positions of power who nipped that crap in the bud before it flowered. Palin has no such connections. And she is playing it for all it’s worth!