Rasmussen: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13%
**Written by Doug Powers
Perry just jumped in so we’ll have to see what it looks like when the dust settles and voters have had a chance to kick the tires so to speak, but this can’t be disappointing to his newborn campaign:
Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%.
(h/t Drudge)
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He’s so low he could work at Jiffy Lube without a pit.
*The numbers will settle down for Perry; I believe it to be a general disgust/frustration with the GOP in general, especially those already in DC (Boehner & Co.)that took it in the shorts recently while giving us the same; Unlike Romney, Perry has fire in the belly about the country and breaths it out as well in addressing P-BO and DC; Look for the Rove/Perino/Bush cabal to sabatoge his campaign.
*I will continue to send coin to Bachmann and Cain, believing them to be solid conservatives still having a chance to carry the day.
*If it came to Perry or Romney, I’ll go with Perry!
txvet2 said:
That’s really the objective here: Advancing The Conservative Movement. For whatever I’ve done, I certainly don’t visualize myself in some high-paid TP ‘consultant’ position or anything of the like.
And I’ll never run. By the time my Guard obligation is up, I’ll be almost 60. But that in no way absolves me from trying to make this a State my children and grandchildren can’t be proud of?
I’m with you on this. Palin is my first choice, and I still like Bachmann, too.
Again, on the “passion index”, dude. It’s a strong indicator, but the published Rasmussen app/dissapp spread is -11. Interesting the Gallup spread is -14. Rarely been higher than Ras unless on the + side.
At any rate, agreed. Ships going down, boys! Grab somethin that floats and every lib for himself.
No, just kidding, like they only have room for just so many podiums at the next GOP debate.
Her timing may prove to be impeccable, even though late candidates usually just wither away. Her timing is probably not impeccable, because Perry just upstaged the crap out of her in Iowa and has sucked most of the air out of her coy act. What she can do at this late stage is further split the conservative vote and ensure a Perry win. I would have happily supported her if she hadn’t tried to have it both ways, but it’s past time for her to make the call.
My dad had a sign in his office that stated somethig like “Standing on Principle is a Lonely Place to Be”
I’m guessing the GOP leadership think more like Big Government DemLites, and by standing on traditional GOP principles they probably don’t like, will lose and be unpopular….they’ve got it just the other way around.
OT:
*Doug forgot to mention that his cousin Austin is set to film the fourth film classic in the series; Shagalicious!
Truesoldier,
Solid observation. You kept finding yourself wondering.., what’s the endgame here? Weather the dwindling #’s until we prevail off of voter apathy alone..?
Only enough podiums for the candidates they want at the debate. It won’t stop RP, though, he’ll be there, ignoring the hint at his missing podium.
*Still predicting here(gut instinct)that she stays on the sidelines, and endorses and campaigns for Bachmann beginning Labor Day weekend!
That was sort of the point, and one I made about Cain earlier. There are simply too many people in the race, and adding another at this point is moving the wrong direction. I like several of the candidates, like Cain and Santorum, but they’re clearly not getting traction and need to get out of the way so the conservative vote can coalesce around one person.
RP… Rick Perry? No podium for him?
Oh! You mean Ron Paul.
I agree with the first part, but not so sure about the endorsement part. It could be for Bachman, but I would not be surprised if it went to Cain.
If you don’t understand the urgency of this, let me point out that Perry and Romney at the moment account for 47% of the “likely Republican” total. That doesn’t leave much margin for a more conservative candidate to win the nomination.
I know it’s the passion index. It’s just, I love throwing it out there for peeps like IloveBarkysBum, it makes him feel better
RCP Avg is looking nicely as well. -7.1 worst it’s ever been for The Bama I believe.
I wish that the major political parties would go back to the ‘smoked-filled room’ method of choosing the party candidates.
I know its not an open process, but it gets the party around one single ‘champion’ and removes the LSM from the process.
These primaries are not working. Too many candidates and too many primaries/caucuses. It’s hard for even the best candidate to make it through all the primaries and all the debates without shooting themself in the foot.
The debates are not even real debates.
Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte… just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail fin. What we didn’t know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named “The Battle of Waterloo” and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the shark will go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us… he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened… waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte… just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail fin. What we didn’t know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named “The Battle of Waterloo” and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the shark will go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us… he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened… waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
Chairman Rove: “And today I’d like to introduce our smoke-filled candidate – Huntsman for President!”
Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte… just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail fin. What we didn’t know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named “The Battle of Waterloo” and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the shark will go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us… he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened… waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte… just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail fin. What we didn’t know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named “The Battle of Waterloo” and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the shark will go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us… he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened… waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
More bad news for King Putt:
Wow triple post. #$%^&* hackers!
I’d guess that both would deliberately ignore any such hint.
Rogue,
I think your puter might have the TOTUS virus.
It keeps sayin’ the same thing over and over again.
Absolutely correct about that. There is ample time for added candidates and debate. The field will get narrowed down and it is up to us, Conservative types, to push our candidate(s) across the finish line.
More bad news for King Putt:
Good thing the Texas legislature was paying attention and voted it down.
This website is really getting weird. After my last two posts I looked and they were back-to-back. Now there are a couple in between.
It helps if you only hit the submit button once, though.
Ever consider that may be all he has to say at the moment?
More like the Texas electorate was paying attention and melted their phones.
Barry or Rogue?
Bwa-hahahaha!
When human beings actually voted the results look like this –
2011 Straw Poll Full Results (Votes, %)
1. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (4823, 28.55%)
2. Congressman Ron Paul (4671, 27.65%)
3. Governor Tim Pawlenty (2293, 13.57%)
4. Senator Rick Santorum (1657, 9.81%)
5. Herman Cain(1456, 8.62%)
6. Governor Rick Perry (718, 3.62%) write-in
7. Governor Mitt Romney (567, 3.36%)
8. Speaker Newt Gingrich (385, 2.28%)
9. Governor Jon Huntsman (69, 0.41%)
10. Congressman Thad McCotter (35, 0.21%)
When Bought & Paid for polling shysters shill for the man behind the curtain why SHAZZAM! Suddenly Mitt ain’t a laughable seventh place but is returned to the MSM’s Designated Numero Uno.
Shocking turn of events
Oh yeah huh, the way it’s supposed to work.
BlackFlag55 #136
Bam !
Perry is the shiny new car that has not been look at under the hood. We’ll see what is there.
Bachmann remains my firm choice.
Except that was a straw poll, which typically requires would-be voters to pay to vote. If a candidate doesn’t actively campaign in it and urge his supporters to show up, they aren’t likely to spend the money.
Now I’m sure many polling firms probably have questionable (meaning, biased) methodology, but I really don’t think Rasmussen is one of them.
to heck with those three prof. pols. I guess I will stick with Cain, even with his warts
I think it meant THUGFUL.
If you don’t want 30 million new Democrat voters, DON’T VOTE FOR AN AMNESTY CANDIDATE!
That leaves Cain or Bachmann. Maybe Santorum, anybody know where he is on the immivasion? Last word from Palin was she supported a new “pathway to citizenship” (amnesty) which we don’t need, we have one, illegal aliens have ignored it and bad choices do have consequences.
Personally, it would be an extreme pleasure to watch Herman take jugears down in a debate. An actual black man with actual accomplishments against the psuedo black man with psuedo accomplishments.
I posted this last night, in case you missed.
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/action/2012-presidential-hopefuls-immigration-stances.html
OKL, thanks, forget Santorum, he’s as bad as McAmnesty
I saw this posted here yesterday. Is it true?
Perry has a soft spot for the Religion of Pieces…..
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011081614297/editorial/rsn-pick-of-the-day/rick-perry-and-islam.html
Do we really want another President that doesn’t understand the threat that Islam poses?
Article in today’s Daily Caller that Paul Ryan is considering a run for president. With his family on Colorado vacation to maybe make a decision.
He seems verifiably a Conservative up and down the line.
He is on the right side of the build a wall and penalize the employers; wants to drill for our own energy. We all know about his capability on the budget. He is an engaging speaker, whole paragraphs with NO TOTUS. And no ERR, AHH, UMMM. Seems bright as all heck, and when I heard his official reply to the State of The Union, I thought him likable and believable. He is 51, long married, three kids, Catholic.
I think he’d slaughter Obama in the final debates.
Eye on the prize, y’all. He hasn’t the nuttiness (forgive me, I mean no offense to your religion, anyone) of a person _in public office_ denying science and logic that the dinosaurs lived and that the earth is old. Bachmann is a dedicated Creationist. Not my vote for her in a primary for that alone. To deny science and its method is to deny all formal reason and logic. My father was a Protestant minister and his answer was that certainly God gave the spark to the Universe and to life… BUT, he asked, rhetorically, “How long is a Day?” Surprisingly modern thought for a man born in 1911. Perfectly logical that his view AND all of modern science are congruous.
I am currently leaning Michele Bachmann, and I too mean nothing in giving you an answer back.
I am from Iowa, Michele is from Iowa.
Oral Roberts University is in Tulsa, OK. Now my town, my state. I learned looking this up to answer you this, that OW Coburn is Oklahoma US Senator Tom Coburn’s father , not relevant, just interesting.
ORU is an non-denominational evangelistic crowd. Michele comes from that sect of Christianity. Reason she was unreasonably asked the “Submission” question on Fox debate. That sect believes in creation.
While personally I would tend to agree with you and your Pop. Is that enough to distract me from her top rating on immigration and wanting to undo the damage of this Marxist tyrant? Hell NO, but that’s just me.
On August 16, 2011 at 02:10 pm, Greg Chipotle said:
He claims to have seen the light.
Actually, Texas has historically had a large population of the endangered species Democratus Conservativus. Unfortunately, Democratus Socialista doesn’t handle competitors well. Many conservative Democrats switched party. Ralph Hall being one of them. He’s not as conservative as i’d like, but as he put it: “The Democratic Party left me.”
Alaskan law may be moot (or mute) in this case. The Constitution gives the requirements for eligibility to run for President, and I don’t think Alaska law can usurp that. If it can, then Arizona law can surely usurp ICE.
I had a post vaporize yesterday. There was no questionable language in it, so it couldn’t have been the filters. I hit submit, the page reloaded and my post was gone.
I appreciate your post, #149, OK_Loyalist. It certainly will be a matter of finding the least flawed candidate. In a Primary. My Florida Primary may actually be a big deal, this year. But in the General Election, if it were Bachmann alone v. Socialism? My choice is clear, and the only thing to be settled is whether the phrase is “Madame” or “Madam” President.
On August 16, 2011 at 08:40 pm, bodfish said:
FYI, most creationists that I’ve heard DO believe in dinosaurs. The idea that they don’t believe in dinosaurs is another MSM lie.
29 percent for Perry, after all weekend all you heard was PerryPerryPerry! But no one told you anything about him. They especially didn’t mention the stance on illegal Mexicans getting to pay instate tuition for college, which discriminates against citizens in 49 states who want to attend a public college in Texas. Get your paperwork, and register as a foreign student, and pay that tuition rate. The Guardisil I can understand his being sucked into because they start saying prevent cervical cancer. But to mandate it be covered, is a lot like the way liberal legislatures in liberal states vote for all these mandates in your health insurance. So, then, if it is mandated, why do they have to give it out in school? Let people get these things at their doctor if they want it, they are supposed to go to their doctor to get vaccinated for all the other things you need for school. School vaccines are a bad bad idea, and…upset the children every time, and I think I don’t believe it had to be given at age twelve, because my doctor gave it to my 18 and 22 year olds.