Palin now tied with Romney for nomination

[RandySF]

Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin lead a reduced field of potential GOP challengers to President Barack Obama, according to a new poll.

The survey released Thursday is Gallup's first since Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels and Donald Trump opted out of the presidential campaign.

Romney is slightly ahead of Palin, with 17 percent of the vote to the former Alaska governor's 15 percent.



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55746.html#ixzz1NTjceZnn

[LiberalLoner]

1. I think she should be the R nominee for sure. With Dick Cheney as her

Vice President. Or Paul Ryan. That'd be a winning ticket.

[bobbolink]

5. Don't tempt fate. Remember George Murphy and Raygun? We laughed and said it couldn't happen.

That gives me no comfort at all.

[LiberalLoner]

7. Yeah...I'm worried too to be honest. But the one thing that gives me hope is,

it seems to me there is some kind of generational swing back and forth. One generation gives us the New Deal, the next generation (their kids) rebel against it and give us the Reagan Revolution. I think the pendulum might be swinging back the other way now (hopefully) and the young people coming along today might en masse reject the far-right swing.

[bobbolink]

8. Yes, indeed. The difference is, the "generations" now are much less compassionate, much less

concerned about the welfare of others.

That's why the Civil Rights tactics of the 60s wouldn't have the same result today. That becomes a rather large factor. I see exceptions to that, of course, and let them know I appreciate them, but in general............ :(

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Run Palin, RUN!

I'd love to see her chewed apart on a national level one more time. :D

[HopeHoops]

3. "Well kids, you've got a choice between a road-killed skunk & the moldy leftover meatloaf for dinner

The GOP sure knows how to pick 'em.

[Blue-Jay]

4. Heh. Awesome.

[IDemo]

6. Let's go back to 2010 with Politico on Palin:

Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns.

“There is a determined, focused establishment effort … to find a candidate we can coalesce around who can beat Sarah Palin,” said one prominent and longtime Washington Republican. “We believe she could get the nomination, but Barack Obama would crush her.” This sentiment was a nearly constant refrain in POLITICO interviews with top advisers to the candidates most frequently mentioned as running in 2012 and a diverse assortment of other top GOP officials.

The stop-Palin talks are by no means coordinated among the various campaigns. But top advisers for most of the 2012 hopefuls told us the candidates — as well as many establishment figures — are fixated on the topic, especially on how to keep her from running or how to deny her the nomination if she does run.

onchalance has turned to alarm among party elites in 2010, as Palin repeatedly showed her clout among a key bloc of anti-establishment conservatives. Obviously relishing her role as a powerful force in GOP primaries, Palin made risky but decisive endorsements for Senate candidates such as Joe Miller in Alaska and Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, both of whom beat establishment favorites but in the process made those states less winnable for the GOP.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/republican-establishment-vs-sarah-palin/

She will very likely run as soon as God whispers in her ear that it's time. But it will be as a third party candidate, not on the repub ticket.

[gratuitous]

9. She's been out of the public eye for a couple of months

Which is the only reason I can think of why her numbers might go up. As soon as she gets back out in front of the cameras and flops open that flannel mouth of hers, people will remember, "Oh yeah; she's a complete nincompoop."

[opihimoimoi]

10. The Nincompoop Level in America is such Palins quest has an out side chance

of being successful....

Ms Motomouth has to learn avoiding a debate with Reason or Sanity...she being from Gibber where gibberish is spoken...