70%-Sarah's very, very bad number

Fresh off her widely covered book tour and overblown media coverage of her keynote speech at the teabagger convetion, Sarah Palin is riding high. Yes, she's a big hit with a bloc of hard-core right-wingers, but, in the real world, most Americans don't buy it. In the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, she has astoundingly bad numbers. Over 70% of Americans don't think she's qualified to be President:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021004708.html?hpid=topnews

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E.O.M., baby

is a constant in US politics.

Same number supported Dumbya no matter what. Same number really hates Obama. Same number.....

Seems to me that 30% shouldn't dominate the fucking media and run the fucking country.

to get lower than that even if they ate a baby on live TV.

... and yet... they ARE the fucking media and the mantra is recited... "USA!"

number up to 90% easy. Keep talking Sarah!

The lowest Bush ever got in approval ratings is about 27% so we can say that 27% of the country is conservatively religiously insane, which explains their W./Palin support. The remaining 3% are grandmothers who think that if only their still-unmarried-because-they're-gay grandsons in their 40s could just meet someone as cute as that Sarah gal, they would turn straight and get married.

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But, damned, that squawking she does when she is trying to speak publicly... Horrid screeching, squawking, nails on the chalkboard disturbance. Have her fans all become deaf?

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her base: Men who fantasize about sleeping with her, and women with low-self esteem who want to be her..

attracted to her is only about 27% and can go to 37% when patriotism in worked into the poll. The number reveals itself to us over and over in polls. This is why they had to steal a state in 2000 and 2004.

Make that fake patriotism!

into the rhetoric in the past. Now the Republicans have added lots of stuff to their 'vault' of causes and we have been added to their long list of enemies. We are the traitors.

I just looked at the vieo of the 'arsenal man' from Massachusetts - said it's OK to shoot traitors in the head.

When the Bond & Hoeskstra Boehner teams start the rhetoric at their level and it is picked up by the wild people like Bachmann and Palin and all the people that Dick Armey pumps into a frenzy, we know that we are their enemy. Lies. Absurd lies. Brain washed, then replaced with fear and hate for everyone.

They are bound together by the bible (faked or not), end-of-times, guns, abortion, ignorance, logic deficiency and a complete vacumn about our history.

But I do think she'll get the Rethug nomination. Her only real opposition is Mitt Romney, and when she wants to rally fundies against Mormons, she'll win that battle in every state where the two of them meet head to head. All the sane people are on our side.

bu$h wasn't qualified either!

will do what it takes to destroy her. If you think they are going to let that woman spoil their chances you really don't understand the misogynist, greedy, power hungry bastards at all.

that's an oxymoron) but most of the GOP realize what a trainwreck she is and wouldn't give her the nomination in a million years. They would NEVER live it down if the had her as the nominee.

No one wants an old white man to be in office more than the Repubes. They aren't just going to give this to her on a platter, so even if she THINKS she's going to run (which I don't think she is, she's just stringing everyone along for the publicity) the Repubes running against her will literally destroy her. They will be FAR more damaging than even us Dems will be. Trust me, Guiliani or Huckabee or Romney....these guys know how to play dirty.

Yes, the Repigs love white men, but nobody's stupid enough to tick off the base of adoring baggers who love Caribou Barbie. If Huckabee tries, he'll find out just how fast the reich wing will stomp someone who beats up on a "lady". Double that with Giuliani and Romney, they think the former is a liberal, and they know the latter is a Mormon.

It was like with Hillary, everybody was afraid to lay a glove on her in 2008, and she kept going far past her expiration date.

The grassroots is not the majority, they are a small, annoying and vocal minority.

The heart of the party, the ones that are the main voting block, cannot stand Palin.

The more the GOP/teabaggers try to cram her down their throats the more they hate her.

You really need to step away from DU, stop focusing on FOX coverage and check out the various political message boards on the internet. You will find that your perception is way off base.

Rudy? Washed up. Hucksterbee? Toast because of that pardon that led to the death of four police officers in Tacoma, WA. McCain? Got the word 'loser' written all over him.

The only one left from 2008 is Romney, and the fundies who make up the heart and soul of the GOP are NEVER going to let a Mormon be their standard bearer. They're aware of LDS missionaries working to grab people away from their flocks, and they'll be damned if they're going to give those missionaries one more talking point about who's a famous Mormon.

While there are some up-and-coming Rethugs who would be acceptable to the vast majority of GOPers, like DeMint and Cantor, right now, they're stuck kow-towing to Queen Sarah, they cannot afford to piss off the baggers. The only way they have a chance is if she says or does something so incredibly stupid that even she realizes that she's blown it, and takes herself out of contention.

And it definitely won't be a woman who cannot be controlled or managed.

You really can't name anyone, can you? That's because there is no one, the only "winner" on the elephant side of the 2008 election is Caribou Barbie.

They're stuck with her. Let's face it, in modern Presidential politics, the race for the front-runner status starts the day after the mid-term elections. Who on the Rethuglican side has the momentum to catch up to or surpass Palin in the next none months?

She isn't managing them, she is pissing them off as much as she annoys us.

You really should step away from DU everyone now and then. You will see that most folks aren't as into things as you are. And a good many on the right who do care about politics, can't stand her.

is that he not only killed the supermajority, but he won in blue Massachusetts. No matter what Drudge might have put on his website, Scott Brown is way too liberal for the national GOP to ever be considered as presidential material. The same would be true with Rudy Ghouliani, if he were to run and capture Gillebrand's Senate seat, they'd be deliriously happy, but they're still never going to seriously entertain having him as a presidential candidate, just like they rejected him in 2008.

Interesting non-sequitor there, about whether a Tea Party as a third party has viability. We should only hope that they split off from the Rethuglicans, but so far, they've been smart enough to know that the only way they will influence national politics is as a part of the GOP. They will try to use their money and numbers to get "friendly" candidates nominated as Republicans, so as to pick up from the turn against Democratic candidates that they perceive to be happening in the fall.

The last third party to ever win any electoral votes was George Wallace's American Independent Party back in 1968, and he split the Democratic vote at the time. It's a lesson from history that nobody's forgotten in over forty years.

Mark my words, Sarah Palin will be the 2012 GOP nominee. Nobody else on their side can dig up the grassroots effort that took Barack Obama from fresh newcomer to nominee that we saw in the last few years.

that a lot of DUers feel, but I think it extends more from the fact that the excuses coming from the right about all the stupid things she does makes us think that they are REALLY up to something. i.e. GW II.

Who knows? :shrug:

political base, built themselves up solely on their ability to attract and manipulate people through speaking in public, despite not having much of a message, any respect for the truth or any great intelligence. Both seem to have backers with lots of money, and both speak to crowds who are angry and afraid, alternately provoking and comforting them.

Just a thought.

mark

Without a ghost-writer, even also too!

In fact, he was very intelligent. Evil intentions does not mean stupidity.

and he was nothing close to that. There are a lot of parallels, maybe not exact-similarities might be a better word.

Again, just my thought of the early morning...


mark

Probably elderly White southerners who beat and sexually assault their African-American housekeepers and still haven't caught up with the Southern Strategy yet.

And PICK the President.

This makes some sense. The coverage of her Tea Party speech was very overblown, with the FOX News website directly mentioning her challenge to President Obama in 2012. She cannot be serious. I'm glad that America hasn't (yet) had the wool pulled over its eyes. She is so NOT qualified to do much of anything in government.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

There's more to this job than meets the eye, and she'll be dealing with shit she can't possibly comprehend.

In the meantime he has millions of marks to work for millions of dollars.

David Fucking Broder, Chuck Fuckstick Todd, and Joe Fucking Scumbarrow.

Suck on it.

For a little while at least. She'll then drop out and try to be the kingmaker for the Rethug nom.

This is about what it was by the end of the campaign.

She's a known entity. The more she's known, the less people like her.

Pretty cool considering the hype she gets from Fox.

Given the MSM's 24/7 stumping for her--even allowing for the few recent disses--I would have assumed that most Americans were taking her seriously.

This is rather heartening.

She's not qualified to run the Slurpee machine at 7/11. Why would ANYONE want her running the country?