Palin, Huckabee lead GOP field in new poll

Palin and Huckabee will never become the Republican nominees. I like Palin, but both her and Huckabee are stupid. Really. They both have ver low IQs compared to Romney and the others in the pack, and there's just no way they'll be either the Pres. or VP.

Now there is a scary threesome!

Couple of observations....

1. Absolute stupidity. Wasnt the election a complete rejection of extreme right wing pandering, and christian craziness? Go ahead and put them up, Dem's will coast to a victory yet again.
2. Is this really the best the Republican party has got?
3. Sarah Palin is still the STUPIDEST politician out there; her stance on everything including Global Warming, Predator Management, etc is nothing short of idiotic.

We haven't started Obama"s term. They can poll all they want but in this rapidly changing world many challenges have yet to be experienced.

I think it's ludicrous to have any discussions about the GOP of the future. Instead of being so concerned about getting back into power,(Isn't that what it's all about?) why don't they ruminate about the mess we're in and try to be constructive.

We're in the biggest mess in our history. Power must be used to solve our crisis.
Huckabee and Palin are irrelevant.

America deserves better than that.

Puh-leeze! One thing we DON'T need is to start the next presidential campaign before the winner of this one even takes office! Everyone just calm down and do the jobs you were elected to do.

This has got to be the most depressing news since this morning's jobs report.

And of course Romney leads overall when the question is asked of all people, Republican, Independent or Democrat. (Says Zogby.)

My money is on Mitt to come out on top with Palin a likely VP.

Who listens to CNN(Communist News Network).

If these creationists, including Jindal, are the best the party has to offer, the party is over. I was a Republican until Nixon and Bush W (unquestionably two of the worst presidents in history). These people are so out of touch with reality, it's scary. Republicans no longer represent America unless you are a religious fanatic, a gun-hugger, a war-monger, global-warming denier, or a hate-filled bigot. Sad to see my former party, revert to the point of absolute embarrassment.

Are they that desperate ??
It looks like the cast of HEE HAW

As a republican I can't stand any of the aforementioned.

How about Ron Paul?

i love liberals. Republicans are "stupid" because they do not believe in the global warming hoax? you find me one scientist in favor of it and i will find one that is against it. In the 1970s it was global cooling. now all the nuts have lined up behind global warming...2008 coldest year on record? i must be stupid then.

mccain lost the race, not Palin. He is part of the left leaning "republicans" that we can do without. look at GA. she went down there and helped keep the fillabuster alive. it is time the republicans got back to basics and when we say fiscal conservative, they better be that. crist, jindhal and palin are the future of the party.

i agree, lets hold off on all this...before we get to 2010 or 2012, obama and his 3rd term clinton cabinet havent starting adding fuel to the fire yet.

Let Palin just continue to shoot Moose from Helicopters, that is what she is best at it seems. Her strong suit is not talking about current events, since she still can't tell you newspapers she reads.

Please, please, please rally behind Palin. We need a candidate like her to really show what a joke the Republicans have become. I, for one, would love to see her face off with Obama.

"Palin and Huckabee will never become the Republican nominees. I like Palin, but both her and Huckabee are stupid. Really"

Of course, someone who says "her and Huckbaee" apparently flunked 5th grade English, but they can call people stupid.

What a shock, a bunch of liberals calling people who are popular with the GOP stupid. No different since Reagan. That's why we don't care what you think. Liberals think anyone who isn't a liberal is stupid, especially if conservatives love them.

Priceless.. After 8 years of Bush the republican party wants to select another couple of low-IQ religious twits. I actually don't mind Huckabee, he seems pretty reasonable, but Palin was just a poorly conceived Hail Mary by McCain.

The Republican love affair with stupid people continues. I know there is a brain to the Right, it just seems to get trampled on by the followers of Bush / Cheney / Palin.

Chuck,
Your comments bely your source of information, i.e., where are you getting it from...the liberal media? Surely you can think independently, or is that assumption incorrect? Despite the intense evangelization of global warming by the media, there are many reputable scientists who blow holes in the hysteria that is global warming. And I suppose your qualifications are greater than those who disagree with global warming?

The least brilliant politicians out there are:
1. Barack Obama - what is his record of accomplishments? Compare his to Palin's,and she's way ahead. So what he graduated from Harvard with a law school degree, big deal. He's a political pragmatist at best.
2. Barney Frank & Chris Dodd (tie) - thank you to these two for the subprime fiasco. And oh, by the way, if Barney had been a Republican with his shenanigans w/his male friend, he'd be LONG gone. So much for parity in the press.
3. Joe Biden - his FDR & TV comment, had he been Palin, would have sunk him. His comment about eating at a restaurant that hasn't been open for 20 years, he would have lost his Senate seat. And don't forget his brilliant comment about Obama being clean. That would have been knockout blow had he been a Republican.
4. Chuck Schumer - thank you to you for causing the run on Indy Mac bank
5. Harry Reid - thanks for comments about a major insurance company going down, and what it did to the value of those holding that stock in their 401K.
6. Charlie Rangel - or should I say wrangle, as in tax break. Corrupt!

I could go on, but clearly these are but a few. Palin is WAY smarter than all of them, and Romney, who is most qualified in my opinion, is on another planet. He'd eat all of their lunches at one time.

I agree with Jed Merrill, of 3:02pm. Not just to be a MA homer, and i as a conservative would have only given him a B as MA Gov, but I think Mitt would have made it much closer to Obama than McCain, better informed on the economy, more articulate, looks more dynamic than the sputtering mccain.

Giulinani, 0 chance, but i hope he runs and wins for Senate in NY.

Jindal: so far, excellent.

Palin: somehow needs to be elected to Senate, or be appointed to foreign policy post, to burnish her credentials, but her instincts for America are right on.

Again, on this thread, we have the elistist, smug, we're smarter than you lib crowd. Note to those commenters: most colleges are dropping SAT scores as a requirement (at which i was in the 700's), so stop thinking you have a corner on the market of political wisdom. Slightly above average intelligence, combined with excellent instincts, executive experience and a winning personality are far more important than mere brains. (see Einstein, Albert, President)

Chuck,
Your comments bely your source of information, i.e., where are you getting it from...the liberal media? Surely you can think independently, or is that assumption incorrect? Despite the intense evangelization of global warming by the media, there are many reputable scientists who blow holes in the hysteria that is global warming. And I suppose your qualifications are greater than those who disagree with global warming?

The least brilliant politicians out there are:
1. Barack Obama - what is his record of accomplishments? Compare his to Palin's,and she's way ahead. So what he graduated from Harvard with a law school degree, big deal. He's a political pragmatist at best.
2. Barney Frank & Chris Dodd (tie) - thank you to these two for the subprime fiasco. And oh, by the way, if Barney had been a Republican with his shenanigans w/his male friend, he'd be LONG gone. So much for parity in the press.
3. Joe Biden - his FDR & TV comment, had he been Palin, would have sunk him. His comment about eating at a restaurant that hasn't been open for 20 years, he would have lost his Senate seat. And don't forget his brilliant comment about Obama being clean. That would have been knockout blow had he been a Republican.
4. Chuck Schumer - thank you to you for causing the run on Indy Mac bank
5. Harry Reid - thanks for comments about a major insurance company going down, and what it did to the value of those holding that stock in their 401K.
6. Charlie Rangel - or should I say wrangle, as in tax break. Corrupt!

I could go on, but clearly these are but a few. Palin is WAY smarter than all of them, and Romney, who is most qualified in my opinion, is on another planet. He'd eat all of their lunches at one time.

The brilliance of liberals is devastating...NOT. The love affair of liberals with themselves is hilarious. The thought is: we (liberals) are WAY smarter than you, so trust us to run what you've elected us to. We'll really take care of the little guy, that's us. More likely, you get a thinly veneer'd socialism akin to communist China or Russia where the ruling few get richer, and the rest get poorer. But no, trust us, they say. We've failed many times before, but we'll get it right now, because we're smarter. We'll talk to rogue nations directly, because we're smarter, more diplomatic, we're better than everyone else. Nationalized medicine has not worked in any country in the world, but no, we're smaerter than the rest of the world, trust us, we'll make it work. It's the big, bad corporations that are taking us down, flying in on their corporate jets, while we get flown around on government planes, despite their fiduciary responsibility to use their most valuable asset, time, in a way that benefits the corporation. I've figured it out: when these bombastic liberals point the finger at others for what they are doing wrong, it's to deflect attention away from what they are doing, which is the exact same thing they claim the others are doing. Or did we forget Harry Reid benefitting inappropriately from a land deal out in Nevada. Give me a break, liberals, if they have their way, are going to crash and burn badly. Sadly, we'll reap their consequences. What I'm looking to see if who their punching bag is going to be when Bush is gone. That ought to be a good one.

Poll is accurate. Piyush Jindal is a muslim who claims to have converted to Christianity. The media is pushing him like they did Obama, but Republicans won't fall for it.

Dennis, you and Palin and the rest are delightful museum pieces. I know, like some ghastly version of Jurassic park you may rise again, but for the moment, thank god, you folks are out on your collective ears. The Republican strategy since FDR has been to appeal to the lunatic fringe. It worked until their complete incompetence drove the country into the ground. The better part of valor her is to just go to the woodshed and do some thinking. Not to write long and inane posts.

Speaking as a Republican who did not vote for McCain and who will be elated to see W gone, there's no way in hell I would ever consider voting for Caribou Barbie or Gomer Pyle (Palin & Huckabee). Mitt Romney is the only one qualified to get us out of the economic mess we're in now which the black Jimmy Carter is going to make tenfold worse over the next four years. The man knows more about economics and what it takes to make businesses run efficiently and productively so that they may create jobs than Caribou Barbie, Gomer Pyle, the black Jimmy Carter, Joe "I like to hear myself talk" Biden, John "now I have the best reason of all to hate the world" McCain and Hillary "I'll get that black *&^$ if it's the last thing I ever do" Clinton put together. evre

Mitt Romney has already said that he's not running in 2012. If you want to make sure that the Democrats win the election in 2012, nominate Mitt Romney, a flip-flopping, 1 term governor of Massachusetts (of all places!) who is enormously wealthy and has no idea what the regular American goes through.
I hate it when people tell me that Romney could fix the economy. When this recession started happening, his solution for people was to tell them to buy high-yield stocks. "Let them eat cake" from Marie Antoinette, "Let them buy stocks" from Mitt Romney.
Huckabee is our best bet in '12. He's been a governor for 10.5 years, compared to 4 from Romney and Palin.

GOPer's, just keep rationalizing that a spiritualism, gay bashing, amendment rights, and maverick is the answer. Don't even listen to me, just step back and look for yourself. The essence of your party has faded. That was easier that I thought.

Jindal is the future of the GOP. Bright (Rhodes scholar), young, articulate and a fiscal conservative. Palin is a not ready for prime time and all of the others mentioned cannot draw any independants, like latins and the youth, which is needed for the GOP to have any chance. Jindal does not look like the typical GOP candidate, an old white guy with no clear vision.

Although 2012 may not be the best time to run, unless Obama totally screws up. Jindal is only 36, so he has plenty of time. He will be President one day, the question is when.

I was born to and raised by moderate Republicans (I'm an independent who prefers a political life "on the fence"). My grandparents (both sets), uncles and aunts were/are all moderate Republicans; I didn't even know any conservative Republicans until I went off to college. To this day, the only Republicans I know are moderates (and I've worked in the corporate and legal sectors since 1990). I don't know anyone (and that's not an exaggeration) who thinks Sarah Palin is a viable candidate for ANY national office. My family, friends, colleagues and professional acquaintances must have been left out of this survey. I know that the conventional wisdom is that the Republican Party ignores its "base" -- the social conservatives -- at its peril. I propose that the Republican Party of 2008 needs to wake up to a new reality: they ignore moderates at their peril. After the incredibly toxic Republican presidential campaign of 2008, I believe that most Americans are no longer willing or able to "forgive and forget" and that the Republicans should expect a long time in the political wilderness if they are unwilling and/or unable to become a party of ideas and solutions instead of the craven and fraudulent character assassination a la Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, et al.

Go Rudy!!! I sure hope he gets his stuff together and runs :)

2012 is not a good year for either the Republican or the Democrat Party, watch out for the signs of an emerging new power player in the political history of America.Our next President in the near future is a product of "break aways and unbelievers in the current system". It is going to be a super exciting election ever in the United States of America since it's birth as a nation.My take for the next President elect ( not Obama ) in 2016 is either a Hispanic,Asian,Liberatarian or an Independent candidate.I can't wait to see that history in the making.

I would NEVER vote for any of the possible candidates mentioned here, ESPECIALLY Palin, for God's sake! She is a moron and should disappear into the tundra and leave us alone. I have been a lifelong Republican but that's over now too. The party is dying out and has nothing to offer in 2012 but a bunch of clowns. It should make smooth coasting for Obama's second term.

This is really funny and a bit scary. The Republican Party keeps leaning toward Sarah Palin because she pulled McCain ahead of Obama by 1 percentage point for a whole week after the election. Let's face it. The Party is falling apart and they will do anything to try to get support. No intelligent human being would ever vote for her, again, no intelligent human being would vote for her. She is a self-serving, dishonest bigot. If she does run for office in 2012 she had better watch her big stupid mouth about Obama! Oh my, why doesnt she just fade away????

The Republican party has gone so far to the left that even (so called) Republicans fear conservative values.----GO SARAH 2012