McCain insiders, shielded by anonymity, have been slamming Sarah Palin since before Election Day. The insiders, who many think are Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt, are trying to blame the defeat on Palin.
Numbers, however, tell a different story. Far from being a drag on the Republican ticket that resulted in a victory for Barack Obama, Sarah Palin enjoys a 91% approval rating among Republicans. They were, in fact, happier with her as the Vice Presidential candidate than they were with John McCain as the nominee for President. They also believe in overwhelming numbers that Palin helped the McCain campaign.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCain’s bid for the presidency, even as news reports surface that some McCain staffers think she was a liability.
Only 20% of GOP voters say Palin hurt the party’s ticket, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Six percent (6%) say she had no impact, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin, including 65% who say their view is Very Favorable. Only eight percent (8%) have an unfavorable view of her, including three percent (3%) Very Unfavorable.
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These findings echo a survey earlier this week which found that Republicans were happier with their vice presidential candidate than with their presidential nominee. Seventy-one percent (71%) said McCain made the right choice by picking Palin as his running mate, while only 65% said the party picked the right nominee for president.
Palin does, however, have a bit of an uphill challenge if she decides to make a run for the White House in 2012. The media has created an unfavorable view of Palin among 57% of independent voters.
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Here’s my theory on these ‘attacks’ against Sarah Palin.
Palin was named VP in early September, and had a resoundingly successful debut at the GOP convention, which sent shivers of jealousy thru the McCain loyalists, who suddenly realized that Sarah was gonna outshine their boring-as-heck geezer white-bread candidate McCain.
Right after the convention, logic would dictate that Palin go on a barnstorming media blitz with talk show hosts, newspapers, local TV stations to begin the concerted attack on Obama’s radical ideas, history, and current associations.
But right off the bat, the old fashioned stuck-in yesterday McCain lackies began butting heads with Palin telling her to not say this and not bring up that.
Considering that Sarah Palin is an aggressive campaigner who has never backed down from a righteous political battle, the sparks soon began to fly between Palin and Schmidt, or whomever, as McCain’s WashDC insiders tried to bully around this conservative Alaskan jewel.
Remember those two or three weeks in mid-Sept. where Palin basically disappeared after that interview with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric?
That was the result of a total breakdown between the two camps as Palin rightly insisted that the ONLY way to defeat Obama was to pound away on Obama’s anti-Israel connections, Obama’s pro-UN anti-American statements, and Obama’s trips and associations with screwey Louie Farrakhan, etc.
Palin also wanted McCain to vote NO on that useless idiotic bank bailout plan, regardless of McCain’s public stance in support of that plan, I believe.
THAT was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak, as McCain insiders soon began butting heads with the much more aggressive Palin on strategy.
I don’t believe for one second that Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent. That is something a real hateful person would imagine in the extreme just to make Sarah Palin seem airheaded.
And what the heck is so awful about Palin answering her hotel room in a robe, or whatever THAT childish leak. That too has the earmarks of a Palin-hating person who is trying to make her out to be a slut or something.
Air-headed.. and a whore.
The two things EXACT things that woman haters always use in trying to insult a female candidate.
I’ve also considered the possibility that these “leaks” came from McCain himself. It’s not out of the realm of possibility.
If all these leaks truly came from McCain, or were allowed to continue by McCain, I’m glad he freakin’ lost. Good riddence. I only wish he would have lost his Senate seat in Arizona.
Sarah Palin is a decent mother, and excellent executive, who didn’t deserve the shoddy treatment at the hands of the press…. much less these good ‘ol boy Washington insiders and McCain lackies.
You’ve hit the peg squarely on the head!
Palin is exactly what this country needs in a leader. She cuts through the crap, and talks in a language, the common layperson can understand. Can that be said of McCain, Obama, or Biden? Hell no! Double speak is their idea of comunication. I’d dare say 99 percent of the representatives on DC, thrive on double speak. And another 99 percent of the electorate keep voting these damn fools back in.
I don’t know what 2012 will bring, but if Palin decides to make a run, I’ll be one of her supporters. A fresh straight forward opinion, in DC, doesn’t stroll by everyday.