Only .125% of Republicans say Dick Cheney best reflects GOP core values

Via the Plum Line:

Just 1 percent pick George W. Bush as the best reflection of the party’s principles, and only a single person in the poll cites former vice president Richard B. Cheney. About seven in 10 say Bush bears at least “some” of the blame for the party’s problems

First off, I wonder if Bush and Cheney did so poorly because, in a ranking of all GOP officials, Palin outranks them - and if you can only vote for one person, the conservative fringe that now makes up today's GOP would vote for Palin. Secondly, conservatives never trusted Bush in the first place, so now that they make up most of the GOP - moderate Rs walked a long time ago - it's no wonder that they don't give Bush high marks. Still, a good deal of schadenfreude to be gleaned from the poll.