Right Wing News polls bloggers
John Hawkins of Right Wing News polled 250 conservative bloggers on their choices from among the Republican candidates, 78 responded, yours truly among them;
If you had to pick a 2012 GOP contender today, which of the following candidates would you select?
7) Jon Huntsman: 2.5% (2 votes)
6) Rick Santorum: 5.1% (4 votes)
5) Michele Bachmann: 6.3% (5 votes)
4) Ron Paul: 7.6% (6 votes)
3) Mitt Romney: 12.7% (10 votes)
2) Rick Perry: 26.6% (21 votes)
1) Newt Gingrich: 39.2% (31 votes)
Go read the rest.
Category: Bloggers
Someone (actually two someones) actually voted for Huntsman and has the balls to call themselves a conservative? Ditto the 6 for Paul.
Jesus, we are so screwed.
What bothers me is that only 78 of the 250 bloggers queried responded. But, then, I don’t know how RWN reached out to them or whether there was followup.
2-17; we were emailed with the poll
I read some of the comments over there. The Paulbots are swarming like a hive of bees that was hit with a rock.
My top pick on that list would be Huntsman. I voted for him for governor twice and would do so again if I could. My bottom pick would be a tie between Gingrich and Romney. Gingrich because of his support for an individual mandate, waffling on immigration, and massive personal baggage. Romney because of his anti-gun stance as governor, his flip-flopping on literally every issue, and his large piles of bullshit during the 2002 Winter Olympics here in Utah.
UV, he may have been a great governor, and he might make a good president. If so, he’s hidden that idea very well. I hear him speak, and I picture just another Obama insider. He’s more like Obama than he is, oh, any republican I’ve heard. And he’s like no conservative I’ve ever heard.
Newt…I just threw up in my mouth a bit…
@6 – Interesting assessment of Huntsman. He’s right now just about the only GOP candidate I vote think of casting a vote for, if I vote for Republican candidate to begin with. I’ve only been able to catch the last foreign policy debate, of any in their entirety, but found him to be generally conservative.