PPP Polls: New National Leader is Rick Santorum

[karynnj]

13. I decide long ago that I am too much a partisan Democrat

to really access which Republican can win. I breathed a sighed of relief when GWB with all his baggage and limited accomplishments beat McCain. I feared McCain because people I knew well, who were pretty liberal, thought he was the straight shooter the media routinely described him as - and many really did not like Gore, who they saw as a very conservative Democrat. 2000 was still close enough to the time when you could have a Democrat more conservative than a specific Republican.

Later after McCain lost, I remember a dinner with friends, where the most politically knowledgeable person, completely shocked those happily thinking McCain was ok by listing how conservative he was on issue after issue - other than the few where he was ok. He then spoke of how there were 5 countries Mccain thought needed regime change. My thought was "He's scarier than Bush" In fact, either way we lose. As it didn't happen, I don't know if McCain would have been an easier win - maybe with no cheating - or if the media actually made Bush more "charming". (I never saw said charm )

I think Romney has some REALLY big obvious negatives. I laughed years ago when my youngest said Romney could never win because he put the unfortunate Seamus on the roof of his car. Now, I think she is totally right. Just as Alexandra Kerry's story of Kerry caring enough that he rescued a drowning hamster made some nonpolitical people like him more, this does the opposite. It shows a pretty strange, uncaring person - who cared more for his luggage, which was in the car, than the dog.