Huh...

[sleigh]

The local Channel 12 news runs a viewer dial-in poll each night, usually some inane question having to do with something that happened that day.  Last night's questions was:  "Do you think that Sarah Palin should run for president?"  The final result:  48% of those who answered said "Yes."  

Really?  Look, I know Cincinnati is a staunchly conservative city, but really?  I hope that's one guy with a really fast auto-dialer.  

Comments

[sethb]

It's a bunch of Democrats hoping for someone really easy to beat.

[jonhansen.livejournal.com]

Now, I know lots of Democrats (such as my father) who think she should run because it would promote a bloodbath within the Republican party.

[casaubon.livejournal.com]

As a foreigner I think it'd be hilarious if she ran.

[greenmtnboy18.livejournal.com]

sigh

that is all, just "sigh"

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

According to a survey reported in USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-07-palin-poll_N.htm), her popularity has apparently actually *risen* among Republicans since she quit. No, I don't understand it either...

[scbutler.livejournal.com]

She inspires the base. Which is a sad comment about a country that just seems to grow more and more divided.

The Dixiepubs

[barondave.livejournal.com]

The Sarah Palin "base", formerly the Strom Thrumond-era Dixiecrats, are racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and all too often clinically insane. Of course the fact that their Anointed Leader has accused the "liberal media" of hounding her (without presenting evidence, and completely ignoring her own admonitions to Hillary Clinton, is only going to get the sphincter conservatives to clench their sphincter even further.

Yes, I hope Sarah Palin stays on the scene for a long time, so we can laugh at her. Alas, as the shame of being conservative becomes greater and greater, those few left will get more noisy and violent.

Things will get worse before they get better. Palin will make things worse in the short run, but help make the GOP irrelevant.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

In a poll taken after she, well, I'd say "quit," but apparently my dictionary has a different definition of the word than Palin's does, 70% of Republicans polled said they would vote for her.

Although I do think she proves Goebbels wrong. You don't need to tell a big lie to get people to believe it.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

If I were polled on that question, I'd say that Sarah Palin should run for President, because anything that increases the odds the Republicans will lose big time is okay by me.

I wonder how many people said "Yes" for the same reason.

[gryphart.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume most of those were people who missed the Tina Fey sketches on SNL.

[braider.livejournal.com]

Let's hope some of it was Democrats hoping that she'll run and cause the Republican party to lose....

Myself, I wouldn't want to run the risk that she might actually get elected.