(CNN) - Two days after Sarah Palin fired up a large crowd at Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in Washington, a newly released survey suggests a clear majority of Americans don't think the former vice presidential nominee has the right credentials to be president.
According to the new survey from Vanity Fair and CBS News' 60 Minutes, only 1 in 4 of all adults thinks Palin is qualified to be commander-in-chief while 60 percent say she is not.
By a narrow 47-40 percent margin however, Republicans do feel Palin has the right stuff to be president. But self identified conservatives – constituting the segment of the GOP largely thought to most favor the former Alaska governor – are essentially split 41-40 percent on her abilities to govern the country.
What may also be troubling for the former Alaska governor if she finds herself in a general election matchup, 3 in 5 independent voters don't think Palin is qualified while only 21 percent do. Among moderates, the numbers are even worse with 70 percent reporting they lack confidence in Palin.
Predictably, the numbers are most dire for the former vice presidential nominee among self-identified Democrats: 3 in 4 say Palin isn't up to the responsibilities of the Oval Office.
The survey, conducted by CBS News between August 3-5, surveyed 847 U.S. adults by telephone.
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I am shocked that Americans do not like QUITTERS!
Anyone that quits elected office to pursue money never deserves elected office again. That is what Palin did to Alaskans.
Her whole schtick lately seems to be about how she's so super-holy and so ultra-patriotic, unlike some other people who we won't actually name. This kind of empty posturing appeals to a certain group of ignorant people who the rest of us usually ignore. Hopefully we will be able to continue to ignore them.
The recurring theme in all these polls and surveys shows that roughly 20%-25% of Americans are complete idiots.
NEWS FLASH: Palin is an idiot
How is this news? She repeatedly said she won't be running.
She is not qualified to run for any public office. If there were a U.S. Department of Hate & Division, she'll be the ideal candidate.
Let's see if I've got this formula right....
Presidential approval poll dips to an all-time low in the mid-40's. Glen Beck puts together an extremely successful, peaceful rally on the Mall in Washington DC that has even won the praises of Independents and Democrats who were in attendance. Bad economic news comes out late last week indicating that we are headed for a double-dip recession. Democrats are 10 short weeks away from losing control of both the house and senate.
CNN's answer? Put up an anti-Palin story to get their liberal base riled up and divert attention from all their bad news from the weekend.
Did I get that right?
After reading this item, I still can't discern if Republicans think Palin is qualified or not, because that's the only segment of nuts who would vote for her anyways and I can't tell which side the wind is blowing. As far as I am concerned, yes, I don't think she is NOT qualified to be president.
She is really much more qualified than a community organizer or a hair plugged idiot that can't control his lying mouth, but unfortunately she has been so degraded and demonized by the state run media and liberals (like CNN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NYT and WashPost) that most people believe the caricature that they have created rather than the real person. That sexist, racist attitude of the liberals is of course horrible, but it has created an opportunity for someone else to capture the soul of the real hardworking, taxpaying American citizens who accept personal responsibility for their lives, especially when that person can be contrasted against the corrupt, inept, union toady that is currently the president and the darling of the liberal controlled media.
I don't think she wants to be President. I think she just wants to go on making $75000 per speaking engagement and lining her own.
Well, she certainly has more experience in dealing with foreign governments than this President has. May wanna do a poll and see if MSM people would have elected Oboma if the had known what he was goin to do in the first two yrs of his Presidency. THAT is a poll question.
Did the poll ask how many people think Daffy Duck would make a good POTUS? Yosemite Sam maybe? In a general election matchup it is only fair to match Sarah Palin against such peers.
She isn't even qualified to be Sarah Palin!!!! She's a good liar though....a very good liar.....
She is better qualified than Obami!
Bad news for CNN in recent ratings, their hatred for Palin drives people away.
Yeah Sarah is not qualified to be President....
But the Palin movement is a very important one for our country. We need lower taxes, lower deficits and smaller government. We need to better educate our children and make them LESS dependent on government. We need to stop programs that take money from our hardest working Americans and gives free stuff to the laziest Americans. This reinforces bad behavior and dependence on the government. We need to all work more, pay some taxes, save more and donate to charitable organizations voluntarily, not through government taxes!!
Yes Sarah is not ready to be President but yes Sarah is an important non-presidential leader for our country.
Oh those laughable libs (and their backpocket friends in the MSM). Big news – Palin isn't running in the November elections. You can try and deflect from the mess this administration and this congress have made, but the bottom line is that the dems are out in November.
1 in 4 who feel she is qualified is the same number of uninformed who make up the birther movement. Talking to them is like trying to reason with barnyard animals. Those who voted for "W" in 2000 thought he would be the one to invite to an outdoor barbecue, not realizing there was more to being president than being folksy.
Say it aint so. SP not qualified to be president!!
She displayed her lack of cerebral flux and fortitude when she walked out mid term in her elected capacity as governor of that vast land known as AK to pursue more loftier endeavors such as enriching her personal coffers at the expense of the gullible.
People have finally realized that Palin and Co are strictly renowned for entertainment and not political capitol.
Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President then the person in the White House now. I am 100% confident that she would be a great President. Record debt, 9.5 % unemployment is that what you liberals want, that is what you get from our present President. Vote 100% Republicans this fall and in 2012.Bring back America the way it should be.
She couldn't even finish her term as governor of Alaska. And she quit that job for one of two reasons:
1. She saw her chance to make a TON of money and took it
2. She caved in to her political enemies who were filing tons of lawsuits against her.
Either way, she has shown that she either cannot hack the pressure of high office, or is easily swayed by money. Is this someone we want to lead the country?
Wake me when she's gone. Please.
Sarah Palin proved she is a quitter in anything she does. All she is interested in is making money. The "qutting govenor" is a real joke and america must soundly reject her insane ideas....
Clear majority do not approve of Pelosi, Reed and Obama.
She has no track record beyond mayor. Beyond facebook and twitter rants, she shows little substance.
The people of Alaska hired Palin to govern one of the smallest states in the USA; she quit the job halfway through her term. Why in heaven's name would anyone hire her to govern the nation?
It would be like a Bank of America branch manager in a one-horse rural town quitting the job and then expecting to be hired as CEO.
I truly don't Sarah Palin educated enough to be come command -in- chief. She is really a dumb woman she think she is smart , but she isn't. isn't that is really sad for a person to talk about someone else when she is dumb.
Why does CNN have to report on every little thing that involves Palin in some way? It's getting really annoying. CNN is supposed to be the most professional of the news networks, but sometimes it just seems like they enjoy pandering to the idiots and feeding into the drama as much as all the other networks.
It is my sincere hope that Palin-Beck-Hannity-Limbaugh-Gingrich-Bachmann and the rest continue their Big Takeover of the Republican Party. This sham outfit has demonstrated that it is the Extreme Makeover edition of the worst our country has to offer.
Beck "turns to God"? What a joke.
That we are even having a discussion of Palins "qualifications" is absurd.
It is the American Taliban, wrapped in a flag and waving their bibles.
Doh! This is new? As much as I can't stand another twit or facebook ramblings from the half term governor she has shown why she is unqualified to be but an empty vessel for the rethugs.
She has had a comment about anything and everything she knows NOTHING about and she has been wrong 99.9% of the time. All that she has emphasized is how stupid and clueless she is. Now that we know what an airhead she is how about less of her. As a matter of fact, how aboupt no more of her. Her fifteenminutes of fame were over months ago.
BTW – I hear (didn't watch one second of the I hate every one during the week, but let's join our hands with God on 8/28 litanny) that she mentioned her son was in the Army but she forgot to mention that it was either that or jail in Wasilla while she was governor no less). BTW – where is this son? Taking care of the special needs child because she sure isn't doing so.
No surprise there
Beck and Palin are paid by the Devil to spread hate in this country.
Bring it on Ms Palin!
Dah!!! Who does not know she is just an uneducated guy? Who belives that Africa is a country really is not capabale if being president of this country.
And who didn't know this? She's been showcasing her stupidity ever since McCain introduced her. Who ever thought she was qualified to do anything?
Sarah Palin is about as qualified to be president as this comment that I just typed in qualifies me as a professional writer.
What qualifications are really needed? The list in the Constitution is pretty short.
But "Presidential"? It depends on what kind of President you want, doesn't it?
It is very funny how the lamestream media after watching so many victories of Palin , try to marginize her and put her down by this polls,.
Palin will be the our president in 2012!
What qualifications are really needed? The list in the Const!tution is pretty short.
But "Presidential"? It depends on what kind of President you want, doesn't it?
If she couldn't stand the heat of being Gov. of Alaska, how can she run the kitchen?
She's a charlatan: media grubbing, money grubbing, cashing in on her fame as being the person who brought down the McCain candidacy. What great credentials.
I think the only reason the GOP have Palin on the team is to secure the whack job portion of their party. If she does square off with the other GOP contenders in the run off she would be vanquished pretty quickly as she does not have the credentials or knowledge to have any long term credibility. Then again Dubya the Decider was elected twice so its hard to predict with 100% certainty what could happen in the land of the free and the home of the weird as Mama Grizzlies and Joe the Plumbers are the most stupid as well as the most abundant of the species. Sad
Sarah Palin isn't qualified to babysit my cat! She couldn't even finish her job as
Governer of Alaska, how could she possible handle being President, not to mention that is is not the sharpest tool in the Shed! If there are Americans. out there that think is is qualified to be President. Obviously the education system is America is not very strong is we are producing so many other idiots!
What qualifications are really needed? The list in the Const!tution is pretty short.
Is she "Presidential"? I think it depends on what kind of President you really want, doesn't it?
It scares the heck out of me that 25% of people in this country think that half-governor Palin is qualified to be president. Who are these people?
We must be the laughing stock of the planet, if we have that many people that have that little disregard for the office of the presidency, regardless of what they think of the current president.
That even one in four Americans would think she's qualified to be elected to anything but village idiot underscores the truth of the phrase "dumbing down of America." Personally, I find her and anyone who takes her for anything but a sideshow clown to be embarrassing. Add Palin and Limbaugh and you have a revival of he Three Stooges.
says a lot of nothing-price 75,000 cash
Is Palin qualified to be President?!?!? That idiot isn't qualified to bag groceries!
Barnum was right, you CAN fool SOME of the people ALL of the time.
Duh!......is all I can say to that. The scary part is the segment that believes this person is qualified. Scarier still is that McCain believed it was worth rolling the dice for in a last gasp attempt to ascend to the presidency. He was willing to risk all our fates by having her on the ticket. And, by so doing, cast onto the national stage one who otherwise would still be unknown to us and whom, I am afraid, will haunt us for the next ten years............ So sad the right has lost its way. Being a republican was once a point of pride.
Correction: Add BECK and Limbaugh and you have the Three Stooges.
Vanity Fair? Really? The pulse of America right there.
How did this person get elected to office in Alaska? Answer: The media (television, radio, internet, and the corporated led news people), rammed this idiot down the publics throat, day in and day out, until the idiot got elected. If you really dont care for your situation, and you believe the political landscape is somewhat littered with people who look out for their own interest, before considering your own, you can partially blame your (so called), liberal media. That is actually taking marching orders from the conservative(s), in the boardrooms of major corporations. WAKE-UP people. Surely you can not be so ignorant as to not see what is actually happening, as opposed to what you are told is happening.
The poll doesn't surprise me at all – what DOES surprise me is the endless attention which the media showers upon this woman. Why?
So finally 3 out of 4 of the voting public have come to their senses, took awhile. All she'e got to do is keep opening her mouth.
No!, say it isn't so,
( only 1 in 4 of all adults thinks Palin is qualified to be commander-in-chief while 60 percent say she is not.)
No Kidding, Really?
The only thing she is good for is tweeting and spouting off lies. Still waiting on the Death panels Palin.
The poll doesn't ask the right question. Of course she isn't qualified. But Republicans and a few independents will vote for her anyway.
Most of us have known this for nearly two years. It has just taken some people longer to come to this conclusion.
It seems as if qualifications do not matter considering who is currently serving as our president.
Its about time the people came in out of the cold. The sad part is that it took so long to figure out that she was simply window dressing for the Republican party and nothing more. The unfortunate thing here is that she escaped her holding pen and they could not contain the damage that her free wheeling self serving activities created...
Who are there few who think she could EVER be qualified for the Presidency? The woman has never completed a term for an office she has been elected to. She is a "trainwreck" with lipstick.
Were she not attractive, her 15 minutes would have ended long ago.
Yet, this individual gets endless attention from the media. Why? The media cynically reports on her comings and goings because they know she's good for ratings. People who don't know any better love her, despite the fact that she's a quitter and utterly unqualified for any major political appointment. In an era before Fox News, a person like this would have lasted ten minutes on the political scene before being laughed off and forgotten.
CNN has nothing to do but Palin's bashing. Wake up CNN, She will be better president who will bring our honor back.
Bad news for Palin is good news for the country. Thank God the ones who can recognize the simple fact that Palin is in no way qualified to be president far outnumber the ones lapping up her Kool-Aid. the bad news for the country is that some of those folks who recognize her lack of ability seem to think some other republican't would make a good president. how many times does history have to prove that wrong? republicans don't want to govern, they want to rule, for their benefit only. hope there are enough sane, thoughful people voting in November to prevent the horrific scenario of a repug takeover of even one house of government. the country is finally on the road to recovery from the last repug regime. don't send it back into the ditch, or over the cliff!
"The purpose of government is to do for the individual what the individual cannot do for himself." Abraham Lincoln
It is really quite breathtaking that the neo-CON puppet Palin gets such numbers as these that think she is somehow 'qualified'...even among conservatives!
"Clear majority says Palin not qualified to be president"
Yet we elected this current nitwit.
Hey Buraq, a community in Kenya called... they need to be organganized.
This poll is not surpising, when you consider the negative press she recieves. Katie Couric introduced her audiance to gov. Palin as a " moose burger eating beauty queen". No mention of her record. Brain Williams introduced her as a saying she banded books. Not true.
Now she can go to ANWR and expose the lie that it is not suitable for drilling. What does the media cover on the same day? Levi. Time and time again the media will ignore substance, if favor of ridiculing her and her children. Palin herself has said she would not vote for herself if he believed the things in the media.
All four candidates made gaffes during the 08 election, only Ms. Palin was held to a double standard. Pres. Obama says there are 57 states. Not covered. He misspells Syracuse while filling out hid brackets for the Final Four basketball tourney.. Also not covered.
Finally America wakes up ... or, wait. Maybe they have moved over to the Beck camp ... another firebrand with no credentials for Joe six-pack to love.
I wouldn't trust Palin to babysit an ant farm, much less govern a country. She consistently repeats things that are not true, and that either means that she's a liar, or that she has poor judgement when it comes to understand what's true or not. Neither is an acceptible trait in a leader. And she's proven to put self before service: when she saw a way to make more money on the lecture circuit, she ditched the job she'd sworn to do in Alaska. Service to the people means NOTHING to her.
The Republican Party has lost all credibility by making a "star" out of such a ludicrous person. If she's a standout among their party, then they're a poor party indeed. They've become a radicalized theocratic party, and since theocracy has ruined every country that ever adopted it, there's no way I'll ever vote Republican again. I'm not crazy about the Democrats, but they're the only choice left for a moderate in this country.
"only 1 in 4 of all adults thinks Palin is qualified to be commander-in-chief" This proves that 25% of those surveyed are complete morons.
There may be hope for this country after all.
Overall, the vast majority of all Americans know that Sarah Palin lacks the requisite skills and abilities to be President of the United States. No one quits an executive position on the state or local level and then aspires to seriously assume higher executive office on the federal level. Sarah palin abruptly quit the Alaskan governorship for no good reason and is now acting like a presidential candidate. This is crazy and is a recipe for electoral failure. Palin is not credible and is unelectable. In American politics, no one gets a second chance to make a first impression and Sarah Palin is definitely no exception. She is a Dan Quayle in a skirt with lipstick!!
ARE YOU KIDDING!!!!!! Hey CNN don't you get it you can not control Americas Goverment anymore. WE GET IT AND NOW WE DON"T BELIEVE YOU. We read your articles and laugh, because you think you are controlling the thinking of Americans. NOT HAPPENING! Palin did wonderful things in Alaska like NO Proprerty taxes No State Income Taxes and NO Sales Taxes. Plus every citizen got a check from the State Goverment for $3300. Now tell me what did Obama do! Oh yeah graduated from the quota Harvard institution with Gates as his professor passing him along.
Wait, wait... didn't she just draw a massive support crowd of less than 90,000 people? You mean a bunch of wingnuts smaller than the crowd at a Bon Jovi concert won't dictate the future of American politics??
This is funny. CNN finally finds a Republican who is down in the polls and she's not even running for office.
You can keep on raining CNN, but with Glenn Beck's rally, the conservative parade has just begun.
Amen, Amen, Amen! The more she shows up the more people understand what type of a person she is. Running like a grasshopper from one place to the other without doing anything concrete won't make you credible dear Sarah!
She wasn't even qualified to be Governor of Alaska...
I was expecting this from the gay/commies of the LSM; a day after Palin showed to anyone with a brain bigger than a peanut, and with an IQ in the triple digits who she really is, the commies-nazis of the "media" came up with thash of a poll.
That's what soviet type mis-information is all about: LIES.
The commie news network's gays of course dissiminate the pile high dung.
You stink, morons.
Tell us something we don't know.
You know, I would support this poll since I find the quitter rather sad and CNN for being so obsessed with her, but since CNN has yet to prove to me anything about polls that makes any sense, I don't.
Thankfully, her 15 minutes are about up. Sarah who?
Are you kidding? This person does'nt have any credentials, let alone credibility to hold any office. Simply a mouthpiece to earn a few bucks.
I'm more worried about the person who is the president
Sarah Palin is not qualified to be President. I'm a Republican and I know that. I would sit out the election if she were the nominee. But she won't be so it's a moot point.
But – Barack Obama wasn't qualified either. This clown has no idea what to do.
Not to worry, she won't run for president. Money is the name of her game, and she makes more money being "Miss Prissy, being judgemental; spreading hate, lies, etc.
What worries me is the 1 in 4 who think she is qualified. What are they thinking?
Is there a poll on how many give honest answers when called?
It should not take anyone with half of a brain to know that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be anything that requires intellectual and concept of reasoning.
Do not know why she is even relevant to worth conducting a polls about.
Never going to happen. She won't run of her own accord. She stands to make a lot more money doing exactly what she's doing now.
Palin is an excellent cheerleader for conservative issues. I welcome her engagement in casting vision and opposing Marxism. However, she is not the champion that conservatives need to insure that Obama is a one term president.
60 min. and vanity fair polls what a joke CNN, about as liberal as you can get.
Is this a surprise? We felt she wasn't qualified to be Vice President, so why would we think she can be President? Listen people, if you want to lose all the things you have now, mortgage tax deduction, social security, medicare/medicaid, unemployment benefits, then go ahead and vote the Republicans in. I for one do not want to lose ANY OF IT!
Its good to know that three out of four are paying attention. If the numbers stay that way I hope she runs.
Hopefully Ms. Palin's unsuitability for the job of President at this point in time should come as no surprise to anyone. Do we as a country wish to repeat the mistake of electing an inexperienced community organizer President? I think not. The position is simply too important for the power it holds to be awarded to kings and queens of the sound bite.
And how is this surprising?
Just because the media drools everytime she opens her mouth doesn't mean she's qualified for anything.
Not worth a comment
This woman so called Sarah should learn how to talk before the crowd. Hearing her at Glenn Beck rally on Saturday, I was totally pissed off! She said she has raised a soldier who fought Iraq war and nobody can take it from her whether we like or not. Sarah, how many mothers lost their kids there? Yours survived. What do you think these mothers think of your comment!!!
if palin was elected governor of alaska, that speaks volumes!
they are smart hard working people.
please stop giving this lady press. every time she appears in the news is another day that she isn't gone.
Apart from whether or not Palin is "qualified" to become president - whatever that definition is to people on some personal level - with whom are they comparing her qualifications? Obama?? She's far more "qualified" than he is, on a number of objective levels, so it's rather amusing to find her wanting, if Obama is the competition.
WHY on earth would she be, this is a woman who has not completed anything (other giving birth) that she has started.
Tell us something we don't know...............
It took this long to figure it out. No wonder we are in such trouble.
I can't believe that ANYONE would think she's qualified to be president.
What do you expect from a poll taken by Vanity Fair and CBS? With the complete media coverage of Palin by CNN, She will be a shoo in in 2012.
Oh yeah. Let the Republicans run her. Another landslide victory for the Dems!!! And another 4 years of "objective" goals in the name of personal freedoms and making this country a better place for "everybody". Not your typical "subjective" goals of the conservative, which is about values (theirs, not yours).
Those Republicans (or anyone else) who think SP should be President should have their heads checked. Is it because she is a woman? Then pick Mrs. Clinton. {I would pay money to see them debate just once. Hil would bounce her right of the stage.}
People just can't see the truth – she is NOT good for this country. She is a quitter, self-centered, and not one to every think on a national or global scale. She can't speak with any amount of intelligence and on top of that I have not heard ONE idea that is worth merit. She would be an embarrasment for this country at any summit or conference of world leaders.
There are more qualified people that can be elected that will serve our country, our citizens, and represent us to the world. Cue Barak Obama!!!!!!!!!
It will be a very sad day if this Ditz every gets elected to an office again. Because that term would never be fulfilled as she would quit that to.
Say NO to "P".
No amount of Tea Party mob fantasies or GOP propaganda can change Palin from the unqualified for any office opportunist into an educated candidate capable of looking beyond her own ego-centric position.
She will always remain bigotted, a religioius fundamentalist, poorly educated, lacking any ethical position, and willing to use her children as campaign props. She lacks the personal courage and honor to finish her terms of office.
I'd never vote for her.
So, Republicans are able to determine that one of their own is not qualified to be president and CIC. Would Democrats also be able to conclude that one of their own also lacks the credentials to hold the same office and responsibilities?
As much as i like her direct conservative pluses she is no more qualified than the kenyan is or was. Both should of stuck to local politics before stepping into the big arena
Alex, can I have No Duh! for a $1000?
This woman was a relatively harmless autocrat in Alaska. Now, thanks to the RNC (you don't really think McCain had anything to do with selecting her for the ticket, do you?), she's been unleashed on the world.
The troubling aspect of this is that nearly half of all Republicans and 1 in 4 adults in general actually believe this unabashed moron has the capability to be president. Allegedly, these conservatives are not smoking pot. So what the hell are they thinking?
It sure is a good thing you all keep putting up the story after story about Palin – she gets way more coverage here than on any "right-wing" channel. And it's a good thing we've got CBS – the Obama channel – creating one fake poll after another. Maybe everybody does hate Palin, however, citing CBS polls is no way to prove anything.
Do you really believe anybody who isn't happy that Obama and friends stole your grandmother's medicare to give to their greedy, fat, rich backers (in the name of progress – no less) loves Sarah Palin? Do you really?
What is scary is that 25% of "adults" believe that this woman IS qualified. Holy Crow.
OMG it only took the rally about "retoring honor" for America to restore honor in my eyes by realizing she is NOT qualified for any office!!!!!!
Can't figure out why people think she wants to run. There is no way she would run.
In other words, Democrats would love to see her as the GOP nominee opposite Obama in 2012.
Perfectly qualified by the GoP standards.Teaming up with another they want to put American on the path of civil war!
She's not fit to be a mother... what the heck makes her think she is fit to be president. she's a waste of oxygen.
What's sad is that I don't think she is qualified either but I'm quite sure she would have made better choices for the country than President Obama.
OMG, neither is Obama qualified to be President.
Half the conservatives think she is qualitfied to be president. Not only is that funny it is also scary.
And yet another interview showing that no one except the extreme Right likes Sarah Palin or considers her qualified to be President. Why is she still news? Is the media that convinced she'll be the Republican nominee? She won't even win the Iowa caucuses, let alone the general election. Why is anyone wasting time on her?
Sarah Palin is petty and vindictive as shown by backing the rival of the sitting Senator from Alaska. It was reported that she and the lady senator were not on good terms for years. What kind of president would she be if she went after every person in the government that had opposed her? Thank God that enough other Americans view her in the same way. We have enough prima donnas on either side of the aisle in congress without having a despot in the oval office.
Palin will NEVER be President in our country...Sure we have a few thousand idiots that believe in her & Fox news...
Listen up, we are a country of more than 300 million..So do you believe that she speaks for all Americans?? I DON'T THINK SO...I'll sure be glad when this trouble maker stumbles..her followers will turn on her & she'll be happy to keep herself & opinions in Alaska
Gee...Not qualified...Ya think?
Perish the thought.
I am suprised that even this many people would entrust our country to her leadership. Considering her education, the fact that she did not serve her term as Governor out, and just a lack of information to draw on, it is suprising. I guess some vote on sentiment, or charisma alone. Charisma as in they are drawn to her personality. I don't get it.
Wow 1 in 4 Americans and half of all Republicans are ignorant. Amazing stat that reflects very poorly on the educational system of the US.
It makes me insane that we call Palin, Back and Limbaugh "conservative". This is totally wrong, they are Neo-Conservatives, and there is a HUGE difference.
How much money did the author of this article donate to the Obama campaign? Was he/she one of the 88% of the mainstream media (that includes CNN) to donate to the Obama campaign?
Funny, are these the same folks that were so willing to vote for grandpa and the dimwit to lead this country? Slow learners, huh? And they criticized those who spoke against Palin. If it weren't so sad, it'd be funny.
Palin is qualified to be President.
However, she is only qualified to be President of the ‘other’ United States; that is the ‘other’ United States where people can justify their religious bigotry by hiding behind their false American bastardization of European Christianity and where Christ Nazism is more important than a global perspective or an 8th grade education; the ‘other’ United States where a Terrorist and a Muslim are the same thing and the ‘other’ United States where one never travels beyond 4 miles of their place of birth; the ‘other’ United States, etc…
God Bless America…and may God Help those 1 in 4.
Hmmm...A former Governor of a state is not qualified but a Chicago union organizer is? Sure CNN, whatever you say...
She needs to go back to moose hunting!
Thanks to Sarah Palin, women will continue to be taken less seriously in politics. Any gains we have made, she has set back considerably. Shame on John McCain for using her for her looks and not her credentials.
God don't like ugly...facts are facts, and facts don't lie.
Sarah Palin might not be qualified to be president.
However, what we certainly know now, from experience, is that President Obama is not qualified to be president.
The sad thing is that any significant portion of the American population feels this woman is qualified to hold any office, much less the Presidency.
Sarah Palin needs to look at her strengths and the only one that comes to mind is getting the base all riled up. This country, like anything in life needs BALANCE! Not too far left or too far right, but a nice even balance. When our elected officials can figure that out, then our country will move in the forward direction.
Saran Palin doesn't have Credentials too run for dog catcher,than she would lose at that or quit.
Sarah Palin as President would be like giving a monkey a Rubik Cube.
THe reason why I think Palin isn't qualified? Because I thought Obama was qualified, and clearly I won't make that mistake again!
Once a cheerleader, always a cheerleader.
hmmmm... correct me if I am wrong – but she isn't running for President...
Oh no – tell me it isn't so!!!!
The Wasillibilly isn't qualified??
Maybe qualified to be the Village Idiot............
Oh the horror (and the sarcasm.........)
That should put to rest any rumors that Republicans, as a whole, are capable of rational thought.
Run Sarah Run!
Tin foil hat wearing, Obamanation sign carrying "Tea Party" event going ULTRA "Right" wing Republicans, please, oh please, oh PLEASE make her your candidate....
Better yet, run her as an independent.
(she's still is a full on BABE though)
She is better qualified , than Obama to govern. He governs by his Ideology, more so than by the will of the American people and Constitution. This is disgracing since Obama was an teacher of Constitutional Law, in Chicago, but then no one ever stated what countries Constitution. He stands by the Constitution when it serves his purpose!
Granny Sarah Grizzly came in right behind Elmo in the poll...
That's really unfortunate that so many people do not properly understand the qualifications of President set forth by the Constitution. Article II Section I states the only qualifications are the person must be a natural born citizen, 35 years of age and lived in the US at least 14 years. Palin meets these qualifications. But just because someone is qualified doesn't mean they'ed do the job well. And it is my personal opinion that Palin would not do the job well.
this is hilarious! CNN still clinging to the "Palin's not quaified...." as we have the most incompetent, inexperienced, non-transparent, "no-can't'-produce-my-birth-certificate, excessive-vacationing, gangsta chi-town thug sitting in the White House...or, more correctly, on the golf course while the White House is being redocorated at our expense...Obama's absolutely not qualified to be a fry cook at a diner, let alone president...yet, CNN keeps howling about Palin, and polls anti-Palin drones to reap some sort of slanted poll data...CNN is continually discrediting themselves and the only question left is whose numbers are dropping faster; theirs or Obamas.....haha...and they're throwing mud at Palin...
Wow, really? Are we surprised? Heck 2 1/2 years before Jimmy Carter was elected no one though a peanut farmer was a viable candidate for Pres. At this time I don't think she has even mentioned that she wants to run for Pres. I do like her, but she doesn't make my top of the list for republican presidential candidates. However, she is a great speaker to get under the skin on the narrow minded hateful libs and bring them out of the closet for the rest of Americans to see.
And I wonder about the 25%. Thankfully, most beauty contest winners outgrow the need to be the center of attention, sadly she obviously hasn`t.
You know what's predictable?
You trying to tell America the Monday after Palin gives a moving speech at the Mall that she is "unelectable."
She's not and you cannot distort who she is to everyone. More and more people are doing what I did. Which is, our own research. Palin is far above the other possible candidates in character and record.
Spin, spin, spin for your White House, CNN.
Does it ever occur to anyone who reads this site, why is CNN so invested in what Sarah Palin does or does not do and why do they always publish polls, no matter how questionable, to try and diminsh her? She is not a public office holder. She is not a candidate for office.She is a private citizen who happens to be politically active. So the question arises, why does this network seem to be obsessed with her? If she is such an non-entity as they claim, why do they hang on her every word and deed? Could it be that they do have an iron in this fire about whether she becomes President or not? Why are they so concerned? What is their bottom line in all this? Think about that folks! When you can't figure something out, look for the vested interest in the matter and obviously CNN for whatever personal agenda is deeply invested in trying to marginalize her. Think about it and ask youself why? Just why? Hmmm! As the Good Book says, "The guilty fleeth when no man (or woman in this case) pursuith!"Hmmm!
I believe she stated she is not running for president. So why do we constantly waste time with these polls asking about something completely irrevealnt.
Yayyy CNN another Palin in trouble poll!!! Your obsession is astounding! I don't think she is Presidential material, but she's is more so than this child in office currently.
She is a Joke!!!
how can anyone who lacks the personal integrity to complete a term as governor and chooses to bail out to ride the money train to self enrichment even be considered for the office of president.
Polls this early in the game really don't mean a whole lot. While I may not agree with everything she says, some of her message resonates with many people. The American people are tired of the "politi-speak" coming from Washington and yearn for someone to just tell it like it is. Sarah Palin may or may not make a good president in 2012 (if she runs), but the real change must take place in Congress. Congress is the only body in our system that can make laws and change policy. As Obama found out with the healthcare bill, you have to have the 535 members on your side to get anything done. The point is the mid-term elections in two months are the most important measure of confidence in the current administration, or not, than a poll about a possible 2012 contender.
Is anyone out there surprised! We know, we know, we know-she's and idiot!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup. We already knew this. Let her run though, it will be a great laugh as her Republican contenders blow her out of the water in the debates, LOL
I would like to really know what is the "mentality" of those 1 out of 4 people is? This woman is nothing but a "gold digger" pretending to be someone she is not!
I hope she runs for President, I miss Political comedy, it was fun to watch. Politics never been so damn.
I'm sorry CNN... did I miss something? Is she running for president??? Once gain your making up your own news...
What is the media's infactuation with Sarah Palin? The media HATES her and I don't exactly know why. She is NOT running for president but even if she did should only 1 out of 4 think she is qualified to be president she is not too far behind our current president Barack Hussein Obama. Right now not much more than 35% believe Obama is qualified to be president!!
Should Sarah Palin DECIDE to run for president THEN that statistic is relevant. However, the media should be MORE concerned with the CURRENT president and deciding if HE IS QUALIFIED!! Obama is a clueless, incompetent, and corrupt president that is ruining this country and economy on a daily basis. Let's look closer at Obama to determine his qualifications!!
What's new here? We already know this. We've known this since Palin first opened her big fat pie hole more than two years ago... This is not new. The more she opens her big fat trap, the more she confirms that she is not qualified to be President of the local PTA, let alone President of the United States... Enough about this desperate, delusional wannabe.
Palin for President!!!
Very very frightening that even 1 in 4 think her qualified. I used to vote the person not the party. Right now I would never vote for a Republican because of what they stand for: pandering to ignorance and fear.
What has she ever done to lead to the belief she can actually provide the necessary leadership....each time she joins into a cause, it gives greater concern over why anyone would want to have her in office.
It's too bad Republicans didn't figure out that Palin is not qualified BEFORE they voted for her.
You can thank Democratic voters for helping us dodge that bullet. You're welcome, by the way.
this poll basically says 1 in 4 americans lack any common sense
YES SHE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she can in fact be the President... of the PTA, naw 5 schools, 10 years, lets see NRA, yea that's ignorant enough lolololol
There are so many Palin Haters out there that my concern is that as a candidate she might enegrize the Left and sway inependents to the left.. I would prefer to see Obama out of office along with the Dems in Congress. So I would want a candidate that has broad appeal to win and get things back in order.
In a related poll, the same 1 in 4 people (that is, exactly the SAME people) said that the earth was flat and the sun circles the earth. 100% of these folks were Republicans.
They also believed that the Beck hate rally was attended by 1 million people and that it was not political.
You socialists keep holding on to your false gods,
in November your world will come to a merciful end!
Larry
Just who are the 40 percent of republicans who think this lady is qualified to do anything but get up in the morning? This is what is wrong with the republican party and why they have so much trouble recruiting independents like myself. Yes, I am disgusted with the way the country is right now. Do I think Obama is a fault? Probably not. I think he is trying. I think congress and their lack of cooperation between parties has most to do with it.
Palin (and the 40 percent that see her as the second coming) can't see the forest from the trees. They want to blame the "other" guy. They don't want to help your fellow american when he or she is down (except if that help eventually helps them). Palin standing there with Beck this weekend talking about healing America to a 99% white crowd disgusted me (and I am white). You can't heal when on Saturday and Sunday you talk about coming together and Monday you talk about division and hate.
Sarah is a comedy act and people who actually support her are stooges!
This woman is not qualified to be Mayor of Wasilia, let alone President!
"By a narrow 47-40 percent margin however, Republicans do feel Palin has the right stuff to be president."
LOL no wonder these folks ran the USA into the ground.
And she's running for.....what again? I don't remember. Can someone please refresh my memory? What office did Palin announce she was running for?
Palin for President? You're joking, right? I'M more qualified than she is, and so is my dog.
Run Sarah run.Should be an easy victory for Obama.
Her ignorance and divisive rhetoric does not represent America intelligence.
This poll confirms my suspicion that about 25% of the country has lost their minds.
Dumb as a box of rocks, but plays well to the whacko right!
Anyone that thinks Palin is qualified for the Whitehouse has serious judgement skills. Every Republican that believes she is qualified, should obviously not be in any posotion of power and needs to be voted out of their office.Sarah should be applauded for making millions off of absolutley nothing ,but anyone with an ounce of intellegence knows she is not qualified for any office, she could not even get elected for high office again in her home state of Alaska, which tells me that Alaska has much more intellegence then many other states. If Republicans continue to support her it tells us they are not to be trusted with important decisions. Anyone that thinks Palin is qualified for the Whitehouse, has zero credibility in my eyes and all voters need to take that into consideration when they vote.
It just goes to show how stupid some people in this coutry really are.
Palin, like the rest of her kind, are only good at bashing and making accusations – that's not leadership. It does get headlines but only because that is what the media focuses on. Sarah Palin is out to make as much money as fast as she can and she will say whatever it takes to stay in the limelight. As president, she has the potential to do irreversable harm to this nation. She appeals to those with low IQs because she can communicate on their level.
Unqualified is an understatement. She's a disaster.
Please let her run!! Easy victory of the Democrats
Which says something about Republicans in general and conservatives in particular. Palin was only barely qualified to be dog officer of Wasilla.
Ho-Hum, Another liberal, pro-Obama biased "News Source" takes a poll and Palin comes in on the short end. Is that a surprise? Take a real poll by a neutral polling entity; now THAT might surprise you!
She's qualified?!?! Based on what?! An unfinished governor's term!? The mayor of a small town?! ..or just being a bobblehead?! And people wonder why we look at the GOP like they have three eyes...
"According to the new survey from Vanity Fair and CBS News' 60 Minutes, ....." Gee, wonder why the "survey" was not favorable toward Sarah Palin??! Hmmmm...........
Sarah has the liberals scared....that's why CNN talks about her EVERY DAY.
The 47% who think she is qualified to be President are most likely the same people who voted for George W. Bush, and you can see where 8 years of egotistic incompetence got us. Please, no more.
Sarah Palin couldn't handle being governor of Alaska and some people think she could be President? Also for the people who think she is so smart she could not even pronouce Sen Bidens name correctly when they were debating. Thats why she asked if she could call him Joe. And some people want her as President. We would be totally F'ed if she won.
She is not trying to run for president. She is out being the lightning rod – and doing a good job too. She is keeping the pressure on the Democrats, while not having to be concerned about being voted out of her own office. This is great strategy by the Republicans.
The poll tries to make the point that Palin lacks support among voters. Unfortunately I see it the other way...(and cringe)
25% DO think she is qualified to be President,
47% of Republicans, 21% of independents,
and ONLY 3 out of 4 Democrats say she ISN'T qualified.
[sigh...]
She is not qualified. How can anyone not see she does not have the sharp intellect to hold the nation's highest office. I know some people who are not educated can't see that.
It amazes me how much time our media continues to waste on this individual who is unknowingly embarrassing ALL Americans and the efforts of females in politics.
CNN . If she is so irrelevant then why spend time talking about her? There must be dozens of other up and coming politicians you can trash if they don't carry Obama's water like you do!
She is very qualified to run her mouth and have an opinion on everything. For starters, no one from Alaska knows how the other states think. Glad she proved it now so people will realize what we would have had under an approved McCain.
President? Of what? She'd be a joke if she were funny.
The answer remains the same NO MATTER WHAT! How many times are you going to ask?
Yeah, more and more people are coming around to the fact that Half-Term Palin is more about simplistic sensationalism than incisive coherence.
We already got the stats that just about 1 in 4 Americans are a bit on the numb side and likely always will be. No surprise here. Unfortunately, they tend to scream the loudest and garner media attention because it sells and silly people like us chime in on these blogs because it makes us feel like we are doing something. I enjoy hearing all the POV's. I mainly want solutions to our nations issues, not divisive rants. The GOP seems to be on empty in that arena...same old thing. Again, i'm in the middle, not on the left or right, so please spare the name-calling.
Well at least someone has finally figured out she would not make a good president! She was lucky and very lucky to be a Mayor of Alaska. And it is beyond me how the heck she pulled that one off too. I know I would not vote for her ever for anything. She must really be crazy to even think she could be president of the united states that is! Maybe president of the garbage dump but then I am not sure she would quilify for that position either.
Why does CNN restate the obvious it was clear the day she was selected to by McCain’s running mate for president.
I realize republicans need a President that can’t think and has to have cue cards or in her case her hands but, wasn’t eight years with a war criminal moron enough. I guess not because they keep wanting to put crack-pots in charge palin / bachman or bachman / palin both are complete idiots running the country in to the ground because palin thinks she’s a soccer mom is ludicrous.
Why don’t they both go on DWTS’s as a couple then they’d at least be entertaining.
Palin is one of very few ex-politicians to have proven directly that they are unable and unwilling to lead. She resigned from Alaskan governor to do a book tour and to be on Fox News. That is what everyone should call unable and unwilling to lead.
Boy, that must be a rude awakening for the t-party MINORITY. It's a funny thing – belligerence and volume isn't the same thing as majority – no matter how frothy your media coverage might be. When the t-party comes up with a single viable candidate (that doesn't blather stupidities and shoot him/herself in the foot everytime he/she gets close to a microphone, or one that has any REAL ideas), I .......well, never mind. That is such an unlikely scenario, it's really not worth expounding upon it any further.
she is , however, qualified to help destroy Obozo....which is good enough for me
Sarah Palin demonstrated that she could lead a state sucessfully which is more than some of the other presidents have done. Obama never accoplished anything even close to what Govenor Palin did. she balanced the budget-which is something he couldn't do. Not only didn't he do that but he increased the national debt greatly. Instead of letting the companies that could not adequately run there own businesses default he tried to bail them out by giving them money. If a company can't make it due to over paying salaries to the top employees, let them go under and let other smaller companies that can make a profit have a chance. Paying money isn't the answer to lack of business savy. This is only one of the issues where she could do better then other presidents. Another is not to pardon big drug lords so they can go back into business making it necessary for us to go through the expense of convicting them again. We need a Republican house to support her. Yeah for Sarah Palin
The woman has NO qualifications to lead this country, she can't even comprehend the words in the Constitution much less the deeper meanings and historical background. Her one bit of experience she quit halfway through. She has no education, no skills, no knowledge, and is hugely divisive. She is too busy using her name to grab every dollar she can to see the destruction she is promoting.
1 in 4! That is 50 to 60 million Americans. My go, I can't believe there are so many stupid Americans. No wonder this once great country is fading into insignificance. We deserve being insignificant if so many of us are down-right stupid. Not even god will help us. God help those who help themselves. He doesn't help stupid people.
DJ
Sarah Palin caused the downfall of John McCain, and the RNC is solely responsible for forcing Palin on McCain. While Joe Lieberman could have been the VP, the Republicans were afraid of losing their core right wing support from talk radio and Fox News, when McCain announced that Joe was his first choice for the VP slot. Palin still believes that she can see Russia from her house in Alaska, that should tell you her depth to be POTUS.
Palin is the only Republican who has a chance to beat Obama in 2012.
ANYONE who thinks Palin is qualified for the presidency ... clearly doesn't think clearly ... or think at all. The one thing she has accomplished though is to prove QUITTERS really can prosper!
Even the farthest right wing nuts are starting to see thru her. What a pity. I was hoping she would be the GOP choice in 2012. That would cause the biggest landslide in election history.... and the public embarrassment of the idiots who continue to promote this ding-bat quitter.
We are back to the 1930's with stupidity ruling the airwaves. Does anyone know what happened in the 1930's when Roosevelt was president? Does anyone know the word apathy? 1930's a time of high unemployment, Huey Long? How about Father Charles Coughlin? Why do you think Televangelism took place and why it started?
Encourage your friends to vote November to stop the fringe from becoming a majority. Hey CNN, why don't you look into the history books of the 1930's and report on the similarities. I wonder if you have the courage to show the world history indeed has repeated itself?
Really??? I mean really? Quite scary that 40 percent of conservatives think she has the ability to run this country.
Let us be realistic, she is far and away more qualified than obama. At least she has run a state and had the highest approval rate of any governor in the 50 states or 57 states if you listen to obama. obama had not run a lemonade stand prior to moving into the White House and it shows. Of course his whole agenda could be to destroy this countries economy and if that is the case then he is doing it.
Since Presidents don't govern but only follow instructions and policies that are enforced by those who truly govern from the shadows all that is needed from a president is the ability to speak, act and write to sign bills that they don't write. They have to do a little better than to just put an X where the signature goes. Given this, then Sarah Palin can be elected as president just as Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton were.
It is about time that people begin to wake of this reality and stop living in this world of political fantasies.
America shows signs of intelligence . . .
Why? She was governer of Alaska,can skin a moose,and can see the white house from her back yard. She's also a friend of John McCain.
And this time next year, they'l see Beck for what he is – selling fake christianity to keep his ratings up on FOX to line his pockets. It's the $$$ stupid.
Ah, the daily bash of Palin by CNN. You guys are obsessed with this woman? Why? Does she scare you that much? She is old news. Move on.
Sarah Palin clearly has the ability to "stir up" crowds and anger as well, but when it comes to substance, she shows that she lacks knowledge of the issues and more importantly, answers to the complex problems this nation faces today. She has capitalized on her "moment of fame" and turned it into a "cash cow" as well, but offers little or nothing to the national debate or solutions to problems and seems to be using the gullible and dissatisfied public to line her own pockets. Her record as a "quitter" should concern anyone thinking about voting for her as well.
Go away Sarah! We already have enough polarizing politicians dividing this country and at least they graduated from some place better than an Alaskan community college.
I have my doubts about Palin's qualifications too. But is she any less qualified than Obama? At least she was actually chief executive of a state.
Not that I'm endorsing Palin for President–she, like the neo-cons in general, is far too wiling to try to cram her bible-thumping down everyone's throat–just like Obama is so willing to try to cram his neo-socialism down everyone's throat.
What the country needs is fewer politicians trying to impose their various philosophies on the rest of us, and more willing to just leave us alone.
I think all of this polling on Sarah Palin should stop. She is one person who does need follow polls.
This poll is important because?
Goes to show just how out of touch the Republicans are with the rest of the country...quite eye opening on such and important topic..........presidential qualifications.
Amazing – the mainstream media stage an all-out 24/7 assault on the woman's intelligence and character for only 24 months, and for some strange reason, people believe she sin't qualified to lead the world's only super power. You'll notice about 300 posts to this article, of which 95% are unfounded personal insults, and zero offer a substantive, supported criticism. What a sad state of affairs the political dialogue in this country has become.
The United States doesn't need a president who has no clear concept of how government actually works, no clear understanding of geography, a complete ignorance to world politics, no idea how financial institutions work, and nothing but a complete disregard for anyone but their own career. We had one of those for 8 years. It was a disaster. Another four years? Not if reasonable and rational Americans can help it.
This isn't bad news for Sarah Palin. She is what she is, and increasingly has been connecting with a population of white, middle class religious females, who see the world in the same simple terms that she does.
The problem, if there is one, is for the Republican party as a whole. They have shown they can win elections by pushing the hot button prejudices of the different demographic groups who make up their base. They have not demonstrated that they can frame a national consensus around any of the complex issues the country faces.
It is a little hard to build a coalition to govern based on the guiding principle that you really don't want government to do anything. There may be a lot of voters who would buy into this slogan, but these are people who don't understand the complexity of the many issues that face the country.
Sorry to say, but the world isn't black and white, good and bad.
Sarah Palin can be best described as an 'agitant' in the 'true conservative' political machine. Would an 'agitant' make a viable president? The clear answer is NO. Imagine a political leader, that no matter what he/she says or does ALWAYS stirs up the 'hornet's nest'. Sooner or later, all those who have opposing points of view will be oppressed or suppressed should that political agitant leader come into enough power to have control over the masses. Imagine someone of that character and nature have control of the military and the 'bomb'. I would say that's some pretty scary stuff. And furthermore cannot be allowed to happen.
Definition of agitant:
1. Anyone, or something, that tends to arouse public feeling, interest, or support for or against something.
As long as there are delusional palinists... she won't go away... these people only like her as an attack dog....
It's good to know that Americans still are able to recognize someone without substance!
It would be a Democratic blessing if she is the Republican nominee
Palin raised taxes as governor and benefits from the state's socialistic permanent fund program while crying about the "evils" of socialism. Then she QUIT as governor to chase the almight dollar, abandonin her constituents. She's a phony conservative and poor executive. Why anyone still believes she is fit to lead this country astonishes me. She should just stick to motivational speaking.
Stage right, enters NoBama. The Democrats move and pull him along with strings. Talk about unqualified. Get this idiot out of the white house, and take his kids jungle gym too.
Well duh! Who in their right mind would want this woman to be our president. I wish people would stop the press.
I cannot believe ANYONE in their right mind (I guess that eliminates the GOP) would for one second believe Palin qualified for POTUS. I'm beating a dead horse here, but she's not qualified for anything in the public sector. She's already shown she's a quitter and money grubber.
Great another CNN Palin story. Again a lot of us republicans love her but do not necessarily care about her running for president, she speaks what we feel and for now that's what we need. Have you ran stories on how obama's numbers have dropped, thats a story you should be running everyday....
And to think that Sarah thought her being a celebracy and her presence at the right-wing raly she could get a million. People are starting to see this IDIOT is a waste of time. It' all about MONEY for this woman. I wonder how much Glen Beck paid her for her apperance. Did she travel in her private jet?
CBS News estimated 87,000 people attended a rally organized by talk-radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck Saturday in Washington, according to a crowd estimate commissioned by CBS News.
AirPhotosLive.com gave its estimate a margin of error of 9,000, meaning between 78,000 and 96,000 people attended the rally. The photos used to make the estimate were taken at noon Saturday, which is when the company estimated was the rally's high point.
Rally organizers had a permit for crowd of 300,000.
and the current occupant of the White House does?
Sarah Palin, representing the small-minded and bigoted people of America. I guess everyone in America gets a say, even if it's backwards "thinking". God Help Us All.
So, this should pot her right on par with Smoky the Bear...
Duh – you think???? She, Palin, is sleepwalking and all of her followers are asleep!
Turning over, I say: "The woman is an airhead"!
That just goes to show how truly partisan Republican voters have become. Though it's by a slim margin, a majority of them think that Caribou Barbie is qualified to be POTUS! Just because you agree with a person's stand on social issues and he/she can utter cute little catch phrases does not make that person qualified to run our country. This is proof that they care more for their party winning than the future of America.
Why anyone thinks this airhead has any relevance at all is beyond me.
Why are you so scared of her if nobody likes her. Everyday you post something about her and its still two years to the election.
Then I have to move to space. No need for this Idiot.
Both parties are the problem with the Fed.
Just another point in a mountain of evididence that shows today's GOP are clueless.
If idiocy is a requirement, she has the right stuff!
Palin isn't qualified to be elected to ANY public office. Her moose-hunting, mama grizzly act is just a sideshow that will make her rich. As P.T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute!"
Palin could not run an outhouse cleaning crew!
Do we need to do a poll to know that about the quitter from Alaska.
Although I am a staunch Conservative and want the Republicans to win in everything, I do not believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to be President. She is a personality, she is a nice person, she and I agree on a lot of things but we do not need another personality in the White house. She will drive away a lot of the Independents and then all will be lost for us if she should be the candidate. She is too polarizing a figure and I feel the republicans need to find someone different for their candidate. I am not sure even I could vote for her,, but I cannot vote for a democrat either, so I guess in that case I would not vote for the first time in my 75 years. I have never missed voting since I was old enough to vote, but if she is the candidate it would surely be a first.
It is not bad news for palin, it is bad news for the country. 25% of country is so crazy as to think that palin is good enough to be president.
What a surprise. Most of us know shes not qualfied. , Just people who get all their news from Faux News like her.
That's bad news for you CNN and other media junkets. Your Ticker Queen is just that...a Ticker Queen..not Presidential material. We have been telling you guys in the media this since McCain thrust her upon the public (He shall never be forgiven for that), but you refused to listen. Anyway, I am sure, you will have GOOD NEWS for her tomorrow. She is a gravy train for you guys. As such, Im sure you guys will come up with some GOOD NEWS soon to keep milking that Alaskan cash cow. LOL.
This is disappointing news for a lot of liberals who have really been hoping she captures the Republican nomination in 2012.
This is not news. Apart from a brief period immediately after she got the VP nod from John McCain, Palin has consistently polled as being unqualified to be President. She has consistently received net negative polling from independents and women.
The real mystery is why the media – including CNN – continue to hang on her every Tweet and Facebook page update as though she had any chance of ever winning elected office again.
Of course she's not qualified. But it doesn't matter since she doesn't want to be POTUS. She wants to be a pundit. Pundits are paid better and don't have to do any actual work.
Yeah but what do qualifications mean to anyone in our country? She has great hair ... she has a good looking body ... she has great one liners ... and her kids remind us of our own.
Who says she's not qualified? We like her ... don't confuse us with your logical facts.
Vanity Fair and CBS News' 60 Minutes? LOL
Another lefty poll….. Man you guys are desperate!
She didn't deserve to be mayor or governor and she certainly doesn't qualify to speak for family values.
Palin is the Republican's cheerleader. Like most cheerleaders she's there to get you fired up, but remains pretty, perky, and brainless to the end.
I think Sarah Palin would make a great circus clown. If she was a little quicker on her feet, perhaps a rodeo clown.
Wait, she already is a circus clown.
Its delightful to see her taking all that money from creepy conservative people.
"Run, Sarah, Run!!"
It's hard to believe that anyone, were they to face her name on a ballot, thinks she is even remotely qualified for President. I was of the opinion that she didn't even want to run, but her recent attempts to speak wisely to a larger audience appear to be feeding her tremendous ego, the ego that tells her God is opening those doors. I can hardly wait. The dossier that the RNC has on her will at last be opened, and they will quietly ask their sniper-in-chief to step aside. When she refuses, citing her 1st and 2nd amendment rights have been violated, she will be quickly done in at the first Republican debate bu her more experienced, more knowledgeable colleagues. If not then, then at her first real news conference in front of real journalists who don't feed her the questions three days in advance. Palin will, at last, self-destruct, and can go home and be a parent to her neglected, beloved, children. And count that money she is so fond of.
Interesting that Democrat voters think former Gov. Palin is not qualified to be President, when they voted overwhelmingly for someone even less qualified and put Pres. Obama into the office. Someone with ZERO executive experience.
And now the country is paying for their folly. Fortunately, we won't be paying for it very much longer, because the Liberal agenda stops January 1, 2011 when the new Congress controlled by the Republicans will take over.
Sarah won't run for President. Even she knows she couldn't win.
That tell you the loons we are dealing with – the TEA Party crowd. How dangerous a thought. outright scary. The worst thing about it, they really believe she's qualified.
Please Sarah go back to Wasilla and enjoy your family. I think the USA will be fine without you. I've certainly heard more than enough of your babbling!
Little Miss Round Heels is good for one thing and it isn't politics.
Horrific! Anyone who is blatantly self-serving, as is bad parent or as divisive as this woman has No place in American politics.
This does not include her low IQ and lack of knowledge of any isues except to pad her bank account.
We should try to find out what our fellow Americans who do think she's qualified are thinking.
I did not think that there were twenty plus percent of the population of America so foolish as to think that an uneducated, inarticulate, intolerant spreader of hate and lies was qualified to be a dog catcher, let alone President of the nation. That is a very scary thing.
Real america does not take your polls. The people taking the polls are from the left media, and they only talk to the left. So why do you use these polls.
She is not qualified to be President of the United States.
But the Republicans want her anyway?
How stupid can we be?
I think she has the abilities (certainly more than Obama had when he was elected) but I don't thing whe will run for President – so it doesn't matter.
Do you think Sarah Palin really cares? Palin wants that easy money and being president is not easy for a person with her education and her lack of everything!
That lady is an IDIOT.
This is no suprise, she didn't even finish the job she last ran for.
She's the only one who thinks she's qualified for anything. She barely did her job when she was governor.
I'm sorry...but when was the last poll that was good news for Palin? Every month this poll comes out and every month it is the same thing.
Why is she qualified? She couldn't handle the Gov job so explain how she could handle being the Pres.
Let's think about this rationally for a moment. Let's assume you run a business and you are looking for a manager who can make some intelligent, professional business decisions. Would you risk the assets of your company and your personal wealth by hiring this person? Probably not. If you are looking for somebody to stand by the road and draw some attention for your fundraiser car wash? Maybe. President? I am surprised that there is 1 person who would think so. Oh, there are evil people out there who would use and manipulate her and some very stupid ones who can be duped.
All the more reason that we Dems should want this idiot to run for President. I hope that she runs and wins the Republican nomination.
Will be fun watching her make a complete fool of herself and Obama will coast to an easy and well deserved 2nd term.
She's all fluff & no substance! Does she still see Alaska in her back yard? How much money was she paid to show up at Glen Beck's rally? Probably $150,000 and NOT worth a dime of it.
You know what, people need to not let her off the hook. Liberals are too nice. She wants to go on the offensive about Obama, you guys need to do the same with her? Where's her documentation that Tripp is her son and not Bristol. What qualifications does she have to judge people that hold an executive office when she quit on Alaska? Fight, Dems!
I guess if Geo W. could do it, Sarah can. More government money for coporations to move jobs overseas, tax breaks for the rich and less oversight of Wall Street.
Dah! What is taking so long for people to wake up, this is a person that cannot even make a complete sentence make sense. Her and Beck belong together, they would make a terrific couple and the they could ride off into the sunset together and forever talk their gibberish to each other.
People need to be very very careful when they listen to Palin and Beck. The BIBLE is the main source of all of the Lord's teaching not Palin and Beck. They may talk a good talk but do they walk the good walk ask yourself that question. These two people are making millions of dollars off of unsuspecting people to make their lives better not yours.
WAKE UP PEOPLE
OK.. and Obama is qualified?
Palin has MORE qualifications than Obama who as it seems based on the evidence, has NO IDEA what he is doing....
she has no interest in being president...so why keep reporting on it?