This is a post from my Wordpress blog Stay A While, along with the comments. I decided to duplicate my Wordpress blog comments (along with all comments) on Blogger for posterity. Also because I lost my Wordpress password and haven't been able to recover my account. So I just copied everything over and changed the publish dates. Anyway, enjoy.
Subject: Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.
Two new polls report that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh are the most powerful conservatives in the country. According to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair survey, 26 percent of Americans rate Limbaugh as the most influential conservative voice, followed by Fox News host Glenn Beck at 11 percent. In a Washington Post poll, a plurality of Republicans say Palin best reflects their "party's core values", and they would vote for her "if the presidential nomination battle were held today". Two people who don't fare as well in the Post poll are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:
| 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. |
The Post surveyed 804 "Republicans and Republican-leaning nonpartisans" for its sample. Palin is particularly popular amongst the "loyal followers of Limbaugh and Beck". "Overall, 18 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents cited her as the person most representative of the party's core values. ... Among those who regularly listen to Limbaugh, however, Palin was cited by 48 percent, and among Beck's viewers, it was 35 percent, far surpassing others".
3 Responses.
01. December 1, 2009 at 8:44 am.
Tao: Yes, yes all of the Republican Party's issues can be laid at the feet of Bush/Cheney…except they tend to forget that Beck/Fox News/Limbaugh were once loyalists.But now they have moved on to Palin…Nothing like the "American Idol" model of how to run a political party...
02. December 1, 2009 at 4:12 pm.
Tom-5704: Hi TAO,Thanks for stopping by. I hope you find my blog a respite from the names you get called on other blogs. I read the thread at Oracular Opinion. If these are the leaders the Republicans choose to lead their party, they are in deep dodo. They will lose even if President Obama can't lower unemployment, passes a bad health care bill, ramps up the war in Afghanistan, gives more money to the banks, or any other action the liberals are unhappy about.So what do your employees want for Christmas dinner? Pop Tarts? Just a joke.
03. December 2, 2009 at 7:45 am.
TAO: Personally, I think the whole right wing of America is not conservative as much as they are a bunch of angry malcontents…They feel they have lost control of their lives and they want leadership that gives them a sense that someone is in control. Christmas at the plant will be a afternoon of snacks, punch and gift exchange. THAT is one tradition that will not change. I think Thanksgiving gets clobbered because of Black Friday and now Cyber Monday.
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