68% See Republicans As Leaderless Party
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Polls, Republicans
And maybe that’s a good thing for the GOP.
After all, it keeps the Democrats constantly guessing as to who they should target next.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republican voters say their party has no clear leader, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Another 17% are undecided.Just five percent (5%) view either John McCain, the GOP’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential candidate, or new party chairman Michael Steele as the party’s leader.
Two percent (2%) see conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh in that role, and one percent (1%) name McCain’s running mate, Alaska Govenror Sarah Palin. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner are each seen as GOP leader by less than one-half of one percent.
I honestly do think it’s Rush, especially when politicians actually have to apologize to a political shock jock who offers very little other than simplistic partisan platitudes. I mean, to think that’s where they are right now is insane. It’d be like a Democratic politician haven’t to apologize to Olbermann. And yet many Republicans defend Limbaugh tooth and nail.
So, who do you think is leading the Repubs?
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March 9th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Who cares? Why do you waste time on irrelevant reporting like this?
Dems have the white house and both houses of congress. Does anything else matter?
When Bush was in the white house & controlled congress the dems were pretty rudder-less, too. But who cares? It didn’t matter then & it doesn’t matter now.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Justin, you are correct.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
If the GOP lacks a leader, that gives folks such as Limbaugh power by proxy. Angry conservatives have to listen to someone.
Snoop, you’re really becoming a bore in addition to already being a boor. How is it that you of all people can’t figure out why this matters? You have made clear your opposition to Obama’s policies. If these policies are wrong, you must feel that they deserve to be fought. If the only organized opposition group is aimless and adrift, that’s very bad for all the folks with your PoV.
For some reason, you seem to think that we all need to focus exclusively on the actions of the admin to the exclusion of everything else, and then blame the current admin for all our problems. The sum total of the GOP’s position seems to be “don’t look at us, look at them, because they’re wrong.” That’s hacky, idiotarian, partisan, and gutless.
If you really want the policies of the current admin to change towards your PoV, you need to be interested and to encourage responsible opposition to these policies by the GOP. Please try to absorb the simple and astonishingly obvious fact that for others to supplant the current majority, the opposition will need to do more than to recycle last decade’s taking points as evidence that everything the democrats are doing is wrong.
To insist otherwise and to keep doing this is to guarantee the lengthy dominance of folks whose philosophy is apparently anathema to the very core of your being. This is a good time for you, the leaders of the GOP, and all the rest of the angry fiscal conservatives to stop repeating themselves and try to find a message that both the right AND the middle will respond to. That message must be more than “we have always been right and the democrats are wrong again.”
March 9th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Excuse me, but I’m becoming a bore?
The sum total of the GOP’s position seems to be “don’t look at us, look at them, because they’re wrong.â€
You people are absolutely delusional. This very posting is the definition of “don’t look at us, look at them”. You endlessly run in circles pretending that Rush Limbaugh is somehow relevant to anything, while totally ignoring the blood-letting in our economy as though it’s not happening.
Sweet Jesus, woman. Have you seen your 401K lately? Do you even care?
March 9th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Snoop:
Panic much?
Am I the only actual capitalist here? Falling home prices, falling stock market, that’s an opportunity. I’m buying oil stocks, consumer staples SPDR, and I’m going to get to buy GE for 6 bucks with a bit of luck.
As for Limbaugh, when Republicans stop toadying him, we’ll stop laughing at you for toadying him. Don’t make a spectacle of yourselves and then deny us the chance for a good laugh. You want to commit party suicide and we don’t get to giggle a little bit? Puh-leeze.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Yeah, Snoop, good thing that there are many different posts, for those of us capable of paying attention to more than one thing.
What kind of a bogus clown do you have to be to suggest that somehow this site is not paying enough attention either to the economy or to the actions of the Obama admin. Such a contention is absurd on its face.
Maybe it’s difficult for you to notice this what with all that sand in your va…never mind.
But even though we might be sympathetic, we’re still getting tired of your one-not symphony. Your gadfly skills need work.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
If we’d pay heed to most republicans, we’d never be allowed to speak of Limbaugh’s circus act or Bush’s atrocities over the last 8 years. They’d have us believe that there is no relevance to discussing anything but the failure of Obama to turn the economy around in 6 weeks. As a long suffering liberal, I’m enjoying watching these clowns chase their tail. The Republican party not only lacks a leader, it is completely void of ideas.
My message to them; go off to a corner and try really, really hard to redefine yourself in a manner that would have relevance to most people. Until then, allow us the pleasure of mocking you as you so deserve.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I’m buying oil stocks… Me, too. They’re certainly out-performing everything else.
And I couldn’t care less what anyone thinks of Rush Limbaugh. What’s sad is Democrats pathetic attempt to deflect attention from Wall Street to an am radio pundit.
Buh-bye life savings & retirement, American middle class!
Buh-bye!
Oh wait…Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh!
March 9th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
At first I thought it said “… see republicans as idealess party”.
I agree with that 100%.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Great. GE up 18%. So much for my 6.25 order.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Sweet be-jebus, do you hear yourselves? Are you actually ‘worrying’ in pubic about Limbaugh’s influence on the GOP?!?
Rush Limbaugh is a business man, pure & simple. What makes cash, sells; what doesn’t ends up in the trash can. Conservative? Sure, but always a business man first.
He’s no more in charge of the GOP than I am. God love him, Rush is just posturing for ratings. As fine an American as ever trod this great land.
The GOP doesn’t need a ‘talking head’ right now. When political parties are out of power, that’s precisely when they find out who they are. This is when they find a diverse, independent pool of voices borne of true public sentement. This is the time for new voices. So speak up. Maybe you’re one of its new leaders?
With all due respect, President Obama is tanking like a Quarter Horse after the Steeple Chase, and 2010 reallyisn’t that far away.