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Generally, the more education a Republican has, the less likely they are to support Ms. Palin to lead the Republican Party.
Three recent surveys of Republican primary voters suggest significant divides in support for Ms. Palin based on the educational attainment of the voter. A poll released this morning by Marist College show Ms. Palin as the first choice of 17 percent of Republicans who have not graduated from college, giving her a slight lead among that group. But her support is just 7 percent among Republican college graduates, which placed her fifth behind Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingirch and Chris Christie.
A Quinnipiac poll, likewise, finds Ms. Palin with the support of 22 percent of Republicans who have not graduated from college, but of 10 percent of those who have. A CNN poll, meanwhile using a slightly different criterion that focuses on whether voters attended college, whether or not they graduated from it finds Ms. Palin drawing 20 percent of Republican voters who havent attended college, but only 9 percent of those who have.
Palin Draws Limited Support Among College-Educated Republicans - NYTimes.com
If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on Romney winning the nomination in 2012. Christie would be a fascinating choice as well.
COOPER: From a nonpartisan perspective, David, I mean clearly she has energized a core conservative base, but she has certainly also energized Democrats against her and McCain and clearly now it seems like some conservatives, I mean some conservatives Peggy Noonan and others, kind of rethinking.
GERGEN: I agree with that. I think that Bay is absolutely right. She did enormous good for John McCain early on. But increasingly her positives are going down, her negatives are going up. They're higher than her positives now. And she is rallying other people outside of the base of the Republican Party to support Obama.
And they think that she's a very risky choice. So you know, from that point of view -- and also I have been surprised by the number of conservative columnists, like George Will and Peggy Noonan, David Brooks today in the "New York Times" talking about Obama's temperament, how well suited he was and how impressed he was.
There are a number of conservative intellectuals who have really come the other way. It's been quite, quite interesting.
BUCHANAN: You hit it on the nose. Intellectuals, intellectuals, they aren't the ones that are in there and fighting for our causes. You know, those who really know about this Republican Party and about the conservative cause --
COOPER: Intellectual is a dirty word now?
BUCHANAN: They are fully, fully behind Palin. And to suggest her ratings are up, her negatives are up, that's her job. She's the attack dog, for heaven's sakes.
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Intellectuals NOT WANTED in the Republican Party.
I like Christie. I am not sure about Romney yet....need to study on him. Huckabee is a hater, not supporting him
Interesting Op, Toro. It's my contention the GOP is a bad fit for people without much clear idea about fiscal policy and with strong desires to carry on a "socially conservative" agenda.
Many Americans, a vocal and varied segment of the public at large, have now convinced themselves that educated elitespoliticians, bureaucrats, reporters, but also doctors, scientists, even schoolteachersare controlling our lives. And they want them to stop. They say they are tired of being told what counts as news or what they should think about global warming; tired of being told what their children should be taught, how much of their paychecks they get to keep, whether to insure themselves, which medicines they can have, where they can build their homes, which guns they can buy, when they have to wear seatbelts and helmets, whether they can talk on the phone while driving, which foods they can eat, how much soda they can drink the list is long. But it is not a list of political grievances in the conventional sense.
Historically, populist movements use the rhetoric of class solidarity to seize political power so that the people can exercise it for their common benefit. American populist rhetoric does something altogether different today. It fires up emotions by appealing to individual opinion, individual autonomy, and individual choice, all in the service of neutralizing, not using, political power. It gives voice to those who feel they are being bullied, but this voice has only one, Garbo-like thing to say: I want to be left alone.
A new strain of populism is metastasizing before our eyes, nourished by the same libertarian impulses that have unsettled American society for half a century now. Anarchistic like the Sixties, selfish like the Eighties, contradicting neither, it is estranged, aimless, and as juvenile as our new century. It appeals to petulant individuals convinced that they can do everything themselves if they are only left alone, and that others are conspiring to keep them from doing just that. This is the one threat that will bring Americans into the streets.
Welcome to the politics of the libertarian mob.
The Tea Party Jacobins by Mark Lilla | The New York Review of Books
well, could she really be much worse?Sarah Palin would be a much better President than the massive failure in there now.
sure she would.
LOL
and out of that list, Romney would be my choice
Romney haunted by liberal past
Mitt Romney: A Massachusetts Liberal for President
The Mitt Romney DeceptionPolitiFact | Romney haunted by liberal past
"Romney ran against Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 1994. During a debate, Romney declared: 'I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.' "
(NOTE: Romney has supported abortion since before the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling!)
- Boston Globe, 3/2/2006
Video of Romney vs Kennedy 1994 debate.
The Mitt Romney DeceptionRomney campaigned for Governor of Massachusetts as a pro-choice candidate, and was endorsed by a pro-abortion political group
- "Romney, a Republican and the former Winter Olympics chief, was endorsed by the New York-based Republican Pro-Choice Coalition. He mentioned his mother, Lenore Romney, who favored abortion rights when she ran for the U.S. Senate in 1970, even before the 1973 Roe v. Wade case affirmed women's constitutional right to abortions. . . . Lynn Grefe, director of the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition, applauded Romney's 'commitment to family planning and protecting a woman's right to choose' in a letter on Wednesday."
- Associated Press / New Bedford Standard-Times 10/3/2002
Romney Approves of Abortion Pill and Supports the Legalization of RU-486
Homosexual "Rights"
Gov. Romney has a long history of promoting and furthering the homosexual agenda, and working closely with leading gay activists
Romney barred Boy Scouts from public participation in 2002 Olympics
Fuck off, TPS. This thread is about the GOP.
Fuck off, TPS. This thread is about the GOP.
Isn't he talking about someone in the GOP though?
I suppose you chose not to pay much attention during the last Presidential election. I am not surprised at your ignorance at all..... I am not sure about Romney yet....need to study on him. ....
you gotta face it, Ron Paul comes across as a kookI can't believe that Palin beats Ron Paul, even in the group of educated Republicans.
If anything, Ron Paul should be BEATING Palin in the intellectual group. He has a professional degree!
Oh, I'm pulling for Johnson 100%.you gotta face it, Ron Paul comes across as a kookI can't believe that Palin beats Ron Paul, even in the group of educated Republicans.
If anything, Ron Paul should be BEATING Palin in the intellectual group. He has a professional degree!
you'd be better served by Gary Johnson
There IS a difference between common sense and Barney Fife, you know.I prefer people who know what the hell they are doing.
I suppose you chose not to pay much attention during the last Presidential election. I am not surprised at your ignorance at all..... I am not sure about Romney yet....need to study on him. ....
why not just make it 100% of those Edumacated Republicans?
good grief...and HELL no to Romney.
why not just make it 100% of those Edumacated Republicans?
good grief...and HELL no to Romney.
As one of those 'independent' voters that both parties need to attract, can I just say - for the record - that hell will freeze over before I vote for Palin. Romney, on the other hand, I would consider.
Disclaimer: Consider does not mean vote for, it means I would at least look at voting for Romney.
I suppose that would be intended to cut like a knife, but the moron doesn't know that the only time I ever know what Rush or Beck say is when some obsessed lefty posts about what was said.I suppose you chose not to pay much attention during the last Presidential election. I am not surprised at your ignorance at all..... I am not sure about Romney yet....need to study on him. ....
Better to be more like you?? Just let Rush or Beck tell you the best choice and then run with it?? ....