Sarah Palin vs. Mike Huckabee for 2012
By DAVID ORTEZ on December 07, 2008
A CNN poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents found that Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin are leading for the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination. This should come as no surprise as conservatives felt that Mike Huckabee was their best choice but John McCain managed to squeak by.
Sarah Palin was then introduced to the national scene and everything changed. She was credited with rallying the base and everything else was history.
John Burke adds, "Huckabee burst into the big time by winning the Iowa caucuses and then gave John McCain a tough time in a bunch of southern states. Meanwhile, Palin fever seems not to have cooled for a lot of more conservative voters, although Huckabee still beats her by nine points among evangelical Christians."
The GOP is truly in a fork in the road as I have previously claimed. They have to decide either be the anti-intellectual party rooted in Christian values or the old party of fiscal conservatism that was led by intellectuals such as William Buckley.
The people have spoken and they rejected Christian conservative values that dominated the political arena the last 15 years. Regardless how you feel about the GOP, do you think that it is wise for them to pursue an agenda that Americans continue to refuse?
