Rasmussen: Top 3 GOP candidates for 2012

[thundley4]

Huckabee is not a conservative.

He's Bill Clinton - redux, w/o the Monica mess.

Romney has the health care albatross around his neck.

Palin will lose IMO. She'll lose big.

The GOP will almost certainly take back the Senate. So the US will have divided government until 2016 if Palin's the nominee.

That's not a bad thing.

Palin has two years left, and her positives have increased .

[BlueStateSaint]

Palin has two years left, and her positives have increased .

I agree.  As time goes on, and the Obamessiah continues to **** up the USA, Palin's common sense approach will garner more support.  Palin will win in 2012, if she runs.  The thing is, several someones from the Left will try to assassinate her. 

[Tess Anderson]

Don't particularly care for any of those three - Romney, Romneycare, Barbour, lack of magnetism, Hukabee, THAT pardon. Any of them would be preferable to Obama or (*shudders*) a Clinton. The DUmp is trying to draft Feingold.  The nominee for the GOP in 2012 will probably end up beginning some current or former governor whose last name starts with the letter "P".

[gurn]

I'd vote for her. But I think she would be the weakest GOP candidate.

She's the flip-side of Obama. Most voters have written Obama off already.
Have they written Palin off yet?

Based on the people I talk to, the answer is yes.

But...maybe even a weak Republican can beat Obama in 2012.
Everything about him says he's a goner.

[Allentownjake]

Thune is your best candidate

[JohnnyReb]

Jim DeMint.

[Lacarnut]

Jim DeMint.

I do not want anyone that has been exposed to the power, cronyism, money of the current crop of DC politicians (past or present). Their brains have become diseased with stupidity. Palin is the only one that I see that will make deep cuts in spending, cut taxes and create jobs. Most if not all of the Repub contenders were in hibernation until the Tea Party took hold. They were too afraid to challenge Obama.

[Janice]

Ive followed DeMints career for many years (from when he was just a congressman). He is the little known, low key, truly conservative senator. His support of other conservative candidates (in elections and on the floor) even long before the tea party came along has made him a virtual outcast in the DC circuit. Cocktail and otherwise. He wont win any popularity contests there among the ruling elites. He is detested by the "ruling class" Democrats, Republicrats and Media alike. But he keeps very low profile. I doubt he'd consider the ticket unless things took a very sharp turn in DC. And hes working on that.

They say Sarah cannot be elected. Yet ... a black man (barack the magic negro) that nobodys heard of, that nobody knows where he is from with no experience (except in one of the 57 states perhaps), no school records, no nothing ... got elected as President of the US.

Are you kidding me?

We have 2 more elections to "clean house". 2012 and 2014. Because the elections in the Senate stagger.

Republicrats that must go ...

Olympia Snowe [R-ME]
Susan Collins [R-ME]
Lamar Alexander [R-TN]
Richard Burr [R-NC]
Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]
Michael Enzi [R-WY]
Judd Gregg [R-NH]
Orrin Hatch [R-UT]
John Isakson [R-GA]
Fred Upton (R-Mich)

Im starting to make my (wish) list now for 2012. Sen Lyndsey Ghramnesty will have to wait until 2014.

You can always tell who the Dems fear the most (including the democrap media). They must really fear Sarah and Rubio. And btw .. the elite repukes are going to have to "pipe down" their usual demonization of conservatives because they are up for re-election soon. So all this talk by those on "our side" about how conservatives cant get elected will simmer down before too long.

[Allentownjake]

Orin Hatch?

[gurn]

Orin Hatch?

What a useless POS.

Have you heard his tribute to Ted Kennedy?

Enjoy!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr5oyEDGYkw[/youtube]

[Allentownjake]

What a useless POS.

Have you heard his tribute to Ted Kennedy?

Enjoy!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr5oyEDGYkw[/youtube]

Well they held seats together for 30 years.  I'm assuming they developed a personal relationship.

The Senate is a club.  A very odd, and dangerous one, but a club none the less and they tend to protect their own on a rather unusual bipartisan basis.

[NHSparky]

Janice--Judd Gregg retired.  Kelly Ayotte took his place.

While I'm not expecting the next Ronaldus Maximus to jump out of New Hampshire, you do have to understand that we are the great big middle finger waving in the face of the rest of New England.

[DefiantSix]

Jake, as I indicated earlier, I'm a "fellow Mormon"; if I wouldn't pull the lever for the slick Bastard Mitt Romney, what in God's name makes you think I'd pull the lever for a limp-dick RINO like Orrin?

[Lacarnut]

Well they held seats together for 30 years.  I'm assuming they developed a personal relationship.

The Senate is a club.  A very odd, and dangerous one, but a club none the less and they tend to protect their own on a rather unusual bipartisan basis.

Therein lies the problem. Term limits is the answer.

[Allentownjake]

Therein lies the problem. Term limits is the answer.

Won't get an argument from me.  Convincing a legislature to vote themselves limits on power is an enormous task, I would suggest the right way to do it would be through the state legislatures getting 2/3 of state legislatures to call for a constitutional convention.

Of course that wonderful tool could be used to clean up a few constitutional problems.  Establishing limits on the Commerce Clause would be a nice thing to.

[cavegal]

Let the games begin 

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2010/gop_voters_like_three_candidates_best_for_2012

I am sick of them picking our candidates for us.

[Allentownjake]

I am sick of them picking our candidates for us.

I think your candidate is not on that list and you are going to have a surprise in Iowa.

It is good for fundraising.

Non-partisan analysis.

I think Thune is the smartest person politically in the republican party.

[Lacarnut]

I think your candidate is not on that list and you are going to have a surprise in Iowa.

It is good for fundraising.

Non-partisan analysis.

I think Thune is the smartest person politically in the republican party.

Not to throw cold water on Thune cause I do not know that much about him but we have had some of the smartest people (Democrats and Republicans) that have screwed this country up so bad economically that it is gonna be hard to recover. Just give me someone with above average intelligence and a lot of common sense.

[formerlurker]

Hukabee better not run.

[rich_t]

Hukabee better not run.

H5^^^

[Carl]

It may not be the most popular position but I think Sarah at this point has been too demonized and maligned to make headway in that vague mushy middle of the population that have few core political values.
I may be wrong on that and think she would be a good President,just not sure electability at this point.

Is that fair?
Maybe not but still perhaps what is.

I like Newt a lot but same thing and have some reservations on his judgment.

I don`t want any of the 2008 field to repeat,they couldn`t find a way to entice primary voters away from Mc Cain for goodness sake.

I would throw out Kasich (sp?) as a possibility but after only a year as a new Governor it might not fly.
Honestly don`t know a lot about his politics but seemed pretty solid from what I saw of him in years past.

[NHSparky]

Hukabee better not run.

Neither should Romney, but his ego just can't resist.

[Lacarnut]

It may not be the most popular position but I think Sarah at this point has been too demonized and maligned to make headway in that vague mushy middle of the population that have few core political values.
I may be wrong on that and think she would be a good President,just not sure electability at this point.

Does not make any difference if it is Palin or not. She/He will be demonized and lied about. Move on dot.org will spend hundreds of millions on character assassination. The media will make up lies up they can not dig up dirt on any candidate. Bush Jr was demonized unmercifully. In case you forgot, Democrats spent a ton of money in Florida that the Repubs would do away with Social Security and kick old people out on the street. Bush was supposedly a racist because the 3 white guys that drug a black behind a truck was somehow responsible even though the perps were executed. Dirty politics is the name of the game with Democrats and unless we have a fighter on our side we will lose. A wimp like McCain proved that. Bush Jr also allowed the Democrats to steam roll him on domestic/spending programs. Palin's positives have gone up cause she has more backbone than any of the Repubs in and out of Congress in my opinion.

[delilahmused]

Does not make any difference if it is Palin or not. She/He will be demonized and lied about. Move on dot.org will spend hundreds of millions on character assassination. The media will make up lies up they can not dig up dirt on any candidate. Bush Jr was demonized unmercifully. In case you forgot, Democrats spent a ton of money in Florida that the Repubs would do away with Social Security and kick old people out on the street. Bush was supposedly a racist because the 3 white guys that drug a black behind a truck was somehow responsible even though the perps were executed. Dirty politics is the name of the game with Democrats and unless we have a fighter on our side we will lose. A wimp like McCain proved that. Bush Jr also allowed the Democrats to steam roll him on domestic/spending programs. Palin's positives have gone up cause she has more backbone than any of the Repubs in and out of Congress in my opinion.

Yep, she's proved she can dish it out and take it. She's got bigger balls than the current crop of wannabes. Romney and Huck sat back and endorsed "safe" candidates. Palin put herself out there, win or lose, and she has a lot more in the win column than in the lose column. She has the keenest political instincts I've seen in a while and she constantly runs circles around everyone else, including the press and establishment politicians on both sides. The more they try to take her down or marginalize her, the stronger she gets. No guts, no glory. And she's got great taste in men and shoes!

Cindie

[Lacarnut]

Yep, she's proved she can dish it out and take it. She's got bigger balls than the current crop of wannabes. Romney and Huck sat back and endorsed "safe" candidates. Palin put herself out there, win or lose, and she has a lot more in the win column than in the lose column. She has the keenest political instincts I've seen in a while and she constantly runs circles around everyone else, including the press and establishment politicians on both sides. The more they try to take her down or marginalize her, the stronger she gets. No guts, no glory. And she's got great taste in men and shoes!

Cindie

Yep. Liberal Democrats and blue blood Repubs are terrified of her. When jerks like Karl Rove talk about her, you can see the anguish in his face. She brings enthusiasm, confidence and common sense to the table which most politicans lack. I hope she runs for Prez. I have a $100 bet that she will.