Most don't know who speaks for GOP

[kpete]

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON — Republicans, out of power and divided over how to get it back, are finding even the most basic questions hard to answer.

Here's one: Who speaks for the GOP?

The question flummoxes most Americans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, which is among the reasons for the party's sagging state and uncertain direction.

A 52% majority of those surveyed couldn't come up with a name when asked to specify "the main person" who speaks for Republicans today. Of those who could, the top response was radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh (13%), followed in order by former vice president Dick Cheney, Arizona Sen. John McCain and former House speaker Newt Gingrich. Former president George W. Bush ranked fifth, at 3%.

So the dominant faces of the Republican Party are all men, all white, all conservative and all old enough to join AARP, ranging in age from 58 (Limbaugh) to 72 (McCain). They include some of the country's most strident voices on issues from Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court to President Obama's policies at home and abroad. Two are retired from politics, and one has never been a candidate.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-09-poll-parties_N.htm?csp=34

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[pattmarty]

1. Gotta fuckin love it!!!!!

[BlooInBloo]

2. Within 20 years, they'll ALL be gone. Will be interesting to see how their party is then.

[Gman2]

8. Dont you FCKING DARE get complacent

There is still a bathtub and other various steps to follow thru on!

[BlooInBloo]

11. Easy, tiger. Just said it will be interesting to see.

[Posteritatis]

10. Is it wrong of me to kind of hope they stay around as a bunch of brainfried centenarians? (nt)

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[No Elephants]

4. Limbaugh the Entertainer speaks for what remains of them. Own it!

[Wickerman]

5. the funniest thing, and perhaps most telling is

not only didn't michael steele get mentioned by the public, his name didn't even show in the article.

Complete. Disarray.

[Psychic Consortium]

6. Yes. They are disintegrating in front of our eyes. nt

[AKing]

7. 2 loons,Limbecile & Cheney,with approval ratings worse than Bush....HaHaHa

[camera obscura]

9. Palin didn't even make the cut? Say it ain't so!

[CRK7376]

12. Who cares?

At this point I'm still relishing in the fact that the Repubs self destructed, and are still falling apart.

[dd20045]

13. only time will tell

they will reorganize and it looks like their doing it around domestic terrorism rite now. we must not let our guards down or they will ruin our country even more