Palin Top Choice Of Republicans … Concerned About National Security?

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/palin-top-choice-of-republicansconcerned-about-national-security/

Palin Top Choice Of Republicans … Concerned About National Security?


I’m really not sure what to make of this astonishing number from Rasmussen about the 2012 GOP primary:

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is the top choice for those Republicans who put national security first and ties Romney for first among voters who list economic issues alone as the priority.

Palin is the top choice among Republicans whose top concern is national security? I can see how folks would find Palin appealing as a folksy and combative hockey mom type, an outsider and reformer who dukes it out with coastal elites on behalf of ordinary Everymoms all over the vast middle of the country. But as a military leader?

If memory serves, Palin got roundly pilloried for botching the Bush doctrine and for citing the proximity of Alaska to Russia as proof of her national security cred, among other gaffes. National security was Palin’s glaring weak point in 2008.

Because they invoke such intense passions, the most polarizing figures tend to have vastly different images in the eyes of their supporters and detractors — images that are so far apart that it’s almost incredible that people on both sides are looking at the same person. More and more, Palin really seems to fit this bill.

[liberal N proud]

1. She can be their fear mongering queen

[ananda]

2. That shows to go ya..

.. there are no rational, moderate, or Conservative
Reeps left.

.. only the extremist limbaughtomized fringe.

[nini]

14. very true

and very scary

[redqueen]

3. Seems to back up this old saw:

Not all stupid people are conservatives, but...

[AndyA]

4. Palin can be on night watch to protect us.

From her bedroom window, she can keep an eye on Russia to make sure they don't try anything sneaky!

We can all sleep better knowing that Sarah is on watch! :rofl:

[mother earth]

7. Hee-hee, Sarah sure is the gift that keeps on giving.

Wink-wink, and a hell yeah, AndyA.

[polichick]

5. Well, you know she's on it if Putin rears his head! nt

[abumbyanyothername]

6. What you are seeing is correlation not causation

Those Republicans who consider national security most important correlate with those Republicans who prefer Sarah Palin. This does not mean that Republicans generally, or even those Republicans who think national security is most important, think that Sarah Palin is strongest on national security.

I wish the pollsters had probed for a couple of additional characteristics:

1) Are you generally a fearful or fear based person; and
2) IQ.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. The over 60 male conservative white guy bunch thinks she's "hot".

Those numbers have nothing to do with substance, because there is no substance.

[robdogbucky]

9. C'mon, Rasmussen?

This is all you need to know about Rasmussen:

"...He also co-founded the sports network ESPN, and is currently president of the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association."

...As of 2008, Scott Rasmussen is the CEO of Rasmussen Reports (a separate company) and describes himself as having been an independent public opinion pollster for more than a decade.<6> He received $95,500 from the Republican National Committee and $45,500 from the George W. Bush presidential campaign as a campaign consultant for the 2004 presidential election.<[br />
...Rasmussen is an Evangelical Christian and is president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a not-for-profit corporation with historic ties to the United Methodist Church and the Wesleyan tradition. The Camp Meeting founded the town of Ocean Grove, New Jersey in 1869 and maintains a Christian seaside resort community providing opportunities for spiritual birth, growth, and renewal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Rasmussen

Rasmussen. Always slanted against dems, liberals, left, freedom, truth, etc. Always ready to sling pooh to benefit the Fascists.

Sheesh.


Just my dos centavos,

robdogbucky

[sutz12]

10. Well she DID spend the last few years scouting the Russian frontier..

:evilgrin:

[spanone]

11. she will be the nominee in 2012....the wacko, psuedo-christians have their joan of ak

[gkhouston]

12. If Palin were my top choice, national security would be an ever-present concern.

That, and my place on the waiting list for a brain transplant.

[unpossibles]

13. you forgot one variable

They are largely uninformed idiots. They see her in a helicopter shooting things, and therefore assume she is a tactical/strategic genius. See: Ted Nugent.

[louis-t]

15. So, that's who they're going with?

Fine. Taking the last train to irrelevancy.