New poll demonstrates that the GOP's endless campaign has so badly hurt the Republican candidates that even Sarah Palin is starting to look good again.

"Okay NOW can I be the nominee?"

Courtesy of Public Policy Polling:

 The bloom is off Rick Santorum’s rose, and Republican primary voters are starting to warm up to Mitt Romney. Santorum is still more popular with Republicans nationally than Romney is, but sentiment has shifted toward Romney significantly since PPP’s last national survey last month. 

Romney’s favorability spread is up 18 points from almost even at 44% favorable and 43% unfavorable to 54-35 in the last month, while Santorum’s is down 13 points from 64-22 to 59-30. Corresponding with that, Romney now leads the national primary preference with 34% to Santorum’s 31%, Newt Gingrich’s 20%, and Ron Paul’s 9%. In February, Santorum had a 38-20 lead, with Gingrich at 17% and Paul at 13%, a shift of 21 points on the margin toward the former Massachusetts governor.

So it appears that the GOP is s-l-o-w-l-y starting to accept the idea of Romney as their 2012 candidate. But like any forced marriage they are still hoping that something better comes along and sweeps them off their feet before they are forced to finally tie the knot, as evidenced by the fact that even after all of this time he is STILL only pulling in a 44% approval rating, which means that over half of the Republicans don't want anything to do with him.

And in their desperation they have started to put their common sense on the back burner and to openly fantasize about choosing the GOP harbinger of doom herself, Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin is now once again better liked than any of the actual candidates. 68% see her favorably and only 20% unfavorably. 

“The fact that Sarah Palin is now more popular than any of the Republican Presidential candidates is a real sign of the toll the campaign has taken on all of the contenders’ images,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “Meanwhile Rick Santorum is struggling and would really need a major change in the race- like Newt Gingrich dropping out- to reverse his fortunes.”

This is almost like breaking up with the girl that gave you a raging case of STD's, and after dating around for awhile and not finding anybody better, returning to find out what new infections you can get from her.

'Yeah, I knew you would eventually come around. Hey have you ever had super herpes?"

Of course this is what Palin was hoping for, that the long and contentious battle for the GOP nominee would damage the candidates so bad that even SHE would start to seem like the better choice.

But before the folks over at the Sea O'Pee soil themselves in anticipation that their queen will finally receive her coronation, let me pop their little balloon of stupidity with cold, hard facts.

Simply put, she doesn't really want it. Even if they handed it to her on a silver platter with the promise that she could choose Piper as her running mate, she STILL wouldn't take it.

Snowdrift Snooki just wants to be wanted.  She desires to be desired. She adores being adored. Essentially she just loves being loved.

But under NO circumstances does she want to face President Obama!  Hell she is undoubtedly terrified to face Michelle Obama! Essentially she is a coward, and knows full well that she would be humiliated and politically destroyed in a general election.

When I called Palin a "political prick tease" I was not being metaphorical.  She literally teases dumb pricks into wanting her, and then when they think she is about to deliver the aged and sagging goods, she suddenly refuses to deliver.

Her reasons for disappointing the dimwits can be varied.

It could be that her family needs her for some unspecified reason,

Or that she never REALLY commited, and blames you for assuming that when she said she would commit that she was actually committing. How silly of you to listen to her words.

Or, like she often did while play acting as Alaska's governor, she simply changes her mind without giving any reason.

And there you are Republicans, left with a political hard on in your pants and no place to stick it.

But fear not, from what I understand Mitt Romney is a sure thing.

Not really a GOOD thing, but most definitely a SURE thing.