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Sixty Percent of Americans View Palin As Unqualified To Be President — Two Percent Say She Is A Muslim

According to a recent poll, sixty percent of Americans view Sarah Palin as unqualified to be President while a huge seventy percent lack confidence in her. My favorite aspect of the poll is that two percent believe she is a Muslim.

However, when you move to simply Republicans, 47 percent believe she would be great as a president. Forty percent of Republicans believe she is unqualified.

UPDATE: The results do not appear to have discouraged Palin, who went to Iowa this week in search of that forty percent.

Source: CNN.

106 thoughts on “Sixty Percent of Americans View Palin As Unqualified To Be President — Two Percent Say She Is A Muslim”

  3. I don’t know how anyone could conceivably think she would be qualified to be anything but what she is, a publicity seeking celebrity after the big bucks. How can you write a whole inauguration speech on your hand? She couldn’t even stick it out as Gov of Alaska.

  4. Number 1:

    There’s a big difference between being qualified and being effective.

    The question was: has ability to be an EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT?

    That sounds like qualified to me.

  5. From the poll(as previously noted):

    Do you think SARAH PALIN would have the ability to be an EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT?

    ALL – No 59% Yes 26%
    REP. No 40% Yes 47%
    DEM. No 75% Yes 12%
    IND. No 63% Yes 21%
    *LIB. No 80% Yes 15%*
    MOD. No 70% Yes 19%
    CONSERV. No 40% Yes 41%
    **********

    *That’s one reason why I’m proud to admit that I’m a Liberal!

  7. Did Prof. Turley rely on the same poll?

    The article that I read asked this question:

    Do you think SARAH PALIN would have the ability to be an EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT?

    ALL – No 59% Yes 26%
    REP. No 40% Yes 47%
    DEM. No 75% Yes 12%
    IND. No 63% Yes 21%
    LIB. No 80% Yes 15%
    MOD. No 70% Yes 19%
    CONSERV. No 40% Yes 41%

    The political hit piece written by Alexander Mooney does not rely on the CBS/Vanity Fair poll. It can’t!

    There’s a big difference between being qualified and being effective. I know a lot of people who are qualified to perform a job, who aren’t very effective.

    I don’t consider Sarah Palin to be qualified. Her lack of qualification in a number of areas would lead me to think she would not be very effective. However, concluding that people consider her to be unqualified because they consider her to likely be ineffective is a conclusion that is the product of personal bias.

    We have had a number of ineffective Presidents, but I doubt most historians would blame that on a lack of qualification.

  8. “However, when you move to simply Republicans, 47 percent believe she would be great as a president.”

    Thus proving that great utilitarian John Stuart Mill was right when he said, “Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”

  10. I think Bush has confirmed that you do not have to have intelligence to be Pres…..Just have a daddy that ran the CIA…wasn’t he doing that at the time of Kecksburg, PA? Twilight Theme Song Music…..

  11. The video I posted is one of Jack Cafferty talking about Sarah Palin when she was running for VP. Cafferty reads some emails from viewers who have scathing opinions about Palin’s intellect/abilities.

  13. Yes, but Paris Hilton could never even be nominated because she is a Muslim.

  14. I would love to know how anyone could possibly think that this ignoramus is qualified to be POTUS. Palin has done nothing; accomplished nothing and learned nothing.

    I give her credit though. She has honed a personality disorder and willful ignorance into national prominence. Of course that describes Paris Hilton as well.

  16. I saw a poll the other day,with the 5th annivesary of Hurricane Katrina.That people felt that George Bush did a better job with katrina than Obama did with the oil spill in the gulf.

  17. Forty percent of Bdaman’s people think she’d be a great president … man, if he can tap into that group …

    I hope he posts on this thread so I can lead him to them.

  18. Stewart and Colbert must be part of that 2% who think she’s muslim. I know a few people who would have enjoyed saying that … had they been contacted.

  19. “However, when you move to simply Republicans, 47 percent (over 40 percent) believe she would be great as a president.”

    President of what???

  20. 47% over 40? Hmmmm. They may need their meds adjusted.

    That’s like putting Jeffrey Dalhmer in charge of the Day Care. Lizzy Borden over Prisons. Bernie over the Federal Reserve, nah he’s to smart for that..too many paper trails….

    I think the 60% have it right. I am just playing the odds on this one.

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