46% of Palinites say they'd consider another option if Palin not the nomineeFrom Eric Dondero:
Palin supporters are showing an independent streak, according to a just released poll.
From Rasmussen:
Nearly half of the Republican Primary voters who support Sarah Palin say they are at least somewhat likely to vote for a third-party candidate if she does not win the GOP presidential nomination.Sarah Palin received significant Libertarian Party support in her bid for Governor in 2006, and was closely aligned with the Alaska Independence Party for many years, even producing a Welcome Video for the AIP's State Convention as Governor in 2007. As is well-known, her husband Todd was a dues-paying member of the AIP for over a decade.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% of Likely Republican Primary Voters who favor Palin say they are at least somewhat likely to vote third-party if she isn’t nominated. That includes 22% who say it is Very Likely.
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That's not good for whomever the other candidate is. That means 54% wouldn't.
I’m hoping that if a another Republican beats Palin, he is a constitutional conservative, literally, which how I understand it, would put him good with most libertarians. I’m never again voting for a big government Republican. I’ll find a good third party guy that I’m mostly in agreement with. If my children grow up in a socialist country, I’ll at least be able to tell them I did the best that I could.
Bill, we haven't had a "big government Republican," in the presidency since Nixon. Bush I sucked on a lot of things. But even he couldn't be called a "big government Republican." Remember, he appointed libertarian Jim Pinkerton as his main Policy Advisor, and Quayle was pretty good with the Deregulation Committee.
This "big government Republican," thing that purist Libertarians push is way, way, way overblown.
The last of the "big government Republicans," left the party a couple years ago with Arlen Specter and Lincoln Chaffee.
(Well, on second thought, we still have Megan McCain and Geraldo Rivera in the GOP.)
So Eric, Government Shrunk under Bush I and II? Au contraire robes pierre.
No, Bush II was about to shrink government - offered to privatize Social Security - then he got smackered by a Democrat Congress.
Bush II wasn't about to do anything. He had two full terms and he was far worse in the second term, with the PDP. You're upside down on this eric.
Eric, in fairness to Jim's view, it is difficult for someone of the small-government ilk to hold much in the way of warm 'n fuzzy for W. Bush.
No Child Left Behind. MediScare expansion. Department of Homeland Spending. TARP. All of this is HUGE government, and it is the very reason we here at LR have a voice: Republicans had abandoned their fiscal imperatives and Libertarian voices filled the vacuum. More than anything else, the Tea Revolution is about shrinking Government.
Given W's weakness on standing firm on small guv, it's a true wonder that we were given libertarian-leaning Justices Alito and Roberts.
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As for the third party Palin issue... this reminds me of the Left's push into the Libertarian camp. Divide and conquer. In this case, fund the candidacy of a Libertarian who might siphon off votes. As a strategy, I don't think it's going to help: Whoever the Republican President is, he/she will face a Congress with Torches and Pitchforks. Hell, we could end-up with McCain and we'd still have the Pauls and the Ryans wielding scissors.
Third party? Great. The Right-Wing Socialist Party does not in any way represent small constitutional government or Classical Liberalism.
EXAMPLE:
---- Last week the House GOP Socialists had trouble coming up with $40 billion more in spending cuts.
---- To compare last week Libertarian-Republican Rand Paul introduced a bill with one-half trillion (TRILLION with a T) in cuts.
What a difference. Standard Republicans are frightened to death of freedom.
Don't be fooled by the GOP BS happy talk about "small government."
Gary has a good point. The problem is, the GOP still has too many pragmatists that love working in DC. I would think it's damn easy to cut stuff if you aren't too busy promising the world or bribing people with their own money. Ron Paul Rocks.
Right Guy. We get election reform now or the nation is lost to a Fascist-Corporatist State.
The Beltway Elite shoveled millions in to defeat Rand Paul. Smaller budgets means there is less to steal. If Rand did not have his Dad's Libertarian fund raising list he would have lost.
It's interesting to look at this poll in conjunction with another Rasmussen poll from late late year which showed that almost a third of GOP primary voters would go third party if Palin IS the nominee. See this article for instance.
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