Why uninspiring 2012 GOP candidates can't win
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That leaves a whopping 58 percent hoping another, better, as yet unannounced, candidate will throw their hat in the ring.
But that does not mean Sarah Palin.
Reading the political tea leaves must be a depressing prospect for the current field and their supporters. In fact at times, at this point, the prospect is so bleak for the GOP field that it's almost enough to make Donald Trump take a second (or is that a third) look.
The poll also found that President Obama's favorability rate tops all the Republican candidates at 54 percent. Contrast that with the unfavorability rating generated by Palin - she's topped the list with 58 percent viewing her mostly or very unfavorably.
In an eye opening report by the Pew Research group this week it turned out 53 percent can't even name a possible GOP candidate for 2012 that's been talked about in the news.
And when they are able to name a GOP candidate, the person currently most associated with the GOP is Donald Trump.
Oh, dear. All that birtherism really did was bite them in their own rear ends.
So for all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, it looks like the GOP's gallery of the uninspired and the unelectable actually looks like they've conceded before the race has even begun.
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michaelidaho | Jun 27, 2011, 08:58 AM EDT
Olovely,
You seem to have the same problem with Cahir, babbling about Sarah Palin and other non-candidates (i.e. Oprah Winfrey ?!). You may have a point about Jon Huntsman but it was interesting that you or Cahir never mentioned Mitt Romney. I guess he is a fringe candidate in your world also. By the way, I am not sour, I just think Obama has not succeeded in getting the U.S. economy going again. Instead, he keeps babbling on about investing in clean energy and other pipe dreams with money we do not have.
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seanomelbourne | Jun 25, 2011, 08:20 PM EDT
jaylee!therefore it's ok to post on Ireland and conservative poitics. Great post Tom Swinford.
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seanomelbourne | Jun 25, 2011, 07:36 PM EDT
It has long been an unwavering expectation that, at the end of the day, our political parties will come together and do the right thing for the good of the country. The shocking reality is that this is no longer the case. While both parties share some blame for the current impasse re. debt and deficit, the GOP now seems bent on a path of either insane brinksmanship or government meltdown. To get America back on the right track they insist on massive spending cuts without any revenue increase - which means reducing social security and gutting medicare and medicaid. There is no other way, period. Bizarrely, many republicans and tea partiers scream out their anti-socialist credentials while also insisting (in several polls) that Uncle Sam keep its greedy hands off of their social security and medicare - the two all-American pre-eminent socialist programs. Go figure! What dunces we are! Sadly for us the GOP's highest priority is to defeat Obama and to hell with the country. Their problem: the country isn't with them on this. A little factoid here: Of all the industrialized countries, the U.S. has amongst the lowest income tax rates - third from bottom. And for our wealthiest folks, well they're at the very bottom in terms of income taxes paid.
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maloney | Jun 25, 2011, 02:30 PM EDT
You seem to forget what happened in 2010. The 2012 outcome will be even more devastating to the liberal progressive movement. I predict the left will become violent after the 2012 elections. They will lose that battle too.
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jaylynhayknee | Jun 25, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT
When I first joined this website, I thought it was going to be about Ireland. Now I see it is mostly liberal writings regarding the USA and its politics. We can get this from countless media in this country. I would like more about Ireland and less about liberal American policies. I am especially tired of Cahir O'Doherty's constant rantings against Republicans and conservatives.
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hollabackgurl | Jun 25, 2011, 11:41 AM EDT
I'm actually surprised by the conservative commentators here. Either they're deluded or delusional. It's often hard to tell with them.
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seanomelbourne | Jun 24, 2011, 11:35 PM EDT
It's the stupid ecenomy left gift wrapped on Obama's desk by the GOP
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mrkennedy | Jun 24, 2011, 11:30 PM EDT
I am an independent and voted for Obama because I believed that Gold would rise under him. Invested in Gold and will be selling in March/April 2012 because I now believe Obama will loose and Gold will drop considerably.
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ciarrai | Jun 24, 2011, 11:22 PM EDT
Biggest thumping in history will be dished out by President Obama to whomever the Repubs send up.
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maloney | Jun 24, 2011, 09:51 PM EDT
Cahir's fairytale hour. Enjoy it while you can. Yes Cahir, even you would beat obama in 2012!!
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penn2000 | Jun 24, 2011, 06:26 PM EDT
it's the economy, stupid. Obama was a big mistake and you dems are whistling past the graveyard. any republican (other than Palin) will defeat him. and we will have a solid nominee in a few months. take it to the bank.
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seanomelbourne | Jun 24, 2011, 06:04 PM EDT
The no party have no chance of unseating Obama,they have abandoned the middle class and gained the teahadists and birthers. The Fox/GOP channel has exhausted it's lies, even some republicans can now see through it's thin soup of edited bull.
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Woodman | Jun 24, 2011, 04:30 PM EDT
A lot can happen before the election. But if Obama doesn't run, I hope that Wiener dude runs.
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olovely | Jun 24, 2011, 03:39 PM EDT
Oprah Winfrey has more chance of winning the GOP nomination than Mitt Romney does. Palin will announce her candidacy (and will probably quit before the election). No one knows who John Huntsman is. The fringe now defines the Republican party. I had to laugh at michaelidaho's sour comments.
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