Poll: Republicans Want Party To Be Like Palin

A new Rasmussen poll further demonstrates that the GOP could be in for a long stretch in the wilderness: A majority of GOP voters now say that the party should be more like Sarah Palin.


The numbers: 55% of Republicans say the party should be like Palin, compared to 24% who say they should be like John McCain.

As I've previously noted, poll data like this could indicate that the Republican Party is getting ready to relive the classic cycle of ruling parties who get turned out of power in a landslide: With the party base itself shrunk down, the people who are still around are the most hard-line members, and are really the least fit people to fix the situation.

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Giuliani wants Clinton to apologize to Petraeus

clipped from http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2007/09/14/giuliani0914.html In metro Atlanta for a pair of private fund-raisers, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Thursday sought to please the Georgia GOP base by bashing Democrat Hillary Clinton for her "disbelief" of Gen. David Petraeus —- and demanding she apologize. But the former New York mayor also might have bewildered some Republicans when he categorized illegal immigration as something other than a crime. "The law books say that crossing the border without permission is a misdemeanor. Other than that, it's not a crime," Giuliani said. "That's a question of law, not political rhetoric or political spinning or political positioning." The Republican candidate was responding to an article published in Thursday's editions of the Washington Times, in which he was quoted as saying illegal immigration shouldn't be classified as a crime "because the government wouldn't be able to prosecute it. "We couldn't prosecute 12 million people," he said in the article.