AM I A LIBERAL IF I DONT SUPPORT SARAH PALIN?

[Vek]

If i dont support Sarah Palin does that make me a Liberal, a Demorat or even a Communist?
I have looked hard and studied the front running candidates and have found Sarah Palin to be too divisive,inexperienced and prone to many issues in her past, she is damaged goods. Why am i a liberal? Why do some of you want me to leave the Republican Party?
I also dont like Huckabee because i think he is not what he says he is,all i had to do was look at his record as governor.
I think Pawlenty is a young and coming star but needs more experience,he would be good if he continues to preach the conservative message.
I also like Jindal,he is conservative and he seems to be doing a great job in Louisiana, but he needs more experience.
If the election were held today i would vote for Mitt Romney, his economic know how and his conservative values are what i think this country needs and is what we need right now.

[Vek]

I wasnt talking about you Joe, but there is a group in this site that if you dont suppot Paul or Palin then you dont belong here, they should be ashamed of themselves, dont call yourselves republicans if you dont allow different points of views.

[Joe Simpson]

Well vek I support Ron Paul on most issues, and have never called anyone a socialist who deosnt support him. SO i dont know where that is coming from.

[Whitehorse (Robin Ray)]

Evelio, whether it's Romeny, Palin, Pawlenty, Huckabee, Daniels, or any other serious contender, the bashing is counter-productive. It was not meant to be directed toward you personally.

When it came time for my vote in the TN primary, I voted for Romney because I felt he was the best candidate in the bunch still actively vying for the nomination.

Unless the Republican nominee is a Scozzafava type, I will support that nominee. Romney would have been exponentially better than Obama & significantly better than McCain. Any of those named & many who aren't would be exponentially better than Obama. Joe Biden would be significantly better than Obama - which shows how inept & dangerous a president we have.

I'd like to see the bashing stop. There will be a time to actually discuss the strengths & weaknesses of potential candidates, but this is not the time, imho.

[M. Bruno]

I was a strong supporter of Sarah Palin as McCain's VP for many reasons but I would hope we could do better for a Presidential candidate in 2012. Of course if its a choice between obama and anyone else well then I would vote for Bozo the Clown before obama.

[Vek]

The point to this blog is to show that only Ron Paul nuts or Sarah Palin big mouths are allowed to speak without being called a socialist.

[Evelio Perez]

With all due respect Robin, if you go back a few months in this site, the main brunt of the bashing has been on Mitt Romney, a good man who has been maligned, insulted and missrepresented. I agree that this is counterproductive and damaging to bash conservative and possible presidential candidates and stated it on many occations but the attacks continue, I just can't let the lies and fabrications go un-answered.
I will continue to pledge my total support for whom ever wins the Republican nomination,
I am curious to see who will make that same pledge............................

[Whitehorse (Robin Ray)]

It's about your beliefs first & foremost. This bashing of possible presidential candidates for 2012 is counter-productive all the way around - unless Lindsey Graham forms an exploratory committee. :)

[Evelio Perez]

Mr.R.O.C. I just wouldn't like to get the facts in the way..........LOL

[Mr. Right-of-Center]

Evelio Perez

This is news to no one except perhaps Junior....

[Evelio Perez]

CNN Poll: Most Americans say Palin not qualified to serve as president
Posted: November 16th, 2009 05:57 PM ET

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser


CNN Poll: Most Americans say Palin not qualified to serve as President.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Fewer than three in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin's qualified to be president, according to a new national poll - the least of any of the five potential candidates included in the survey.

But another woman tops that list in the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday: two-thirds of the public thinks that Secretary of State HIllary Clinton's qualified for the Oval Office. That's more than Vice President Joe Biden, who's currently next in line for the presidency.

According to the poll, 28 percent of Americans say Palin is qualified to run the White House, with seven in 10 saying the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee is not qualified.

The survey indicates that a majority of Republicans, 54 percent, feel Palin is qualified, with 44 percent indicating she isn't. But only 29 percent of independent voters questioned feel she is qualified to serve as president, with 68 percent disagreeing. According to the poll, nine in 10 Democrats feel Palin is not qualified.


The poll's release comes one day before the release of Palin's book, "Going Rogue: An American Life."

"The perception that Palin is not qualified to be president puts her significantly behind two potential rivals for the GOP nomination in 2012 - Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

According to the survey, nearly half of all Americans think Romney is qualified to be president, with 43 percent feeling the same way about Huckabee. Among Republicans, Palin is still lagging other potential 2012 primary candidates: 63 percent of GOPers think that Romney and Huckabee are qualified, 9 points higher than the number that say the same of Palin.

"Palin has many strengths - recent CNN polls indicate that Americans believe that she is not a typical politician, that she cares about average Americans, and that she is honest and trustworthy," says Holland. "But the perception that she is not qualified for the White House is her biggest Achilles heel."

An ABC News/Washington Post poll also released Monday indicates that 38 percent of Americans say Palin's qualified to serve as president, with six in 10 saying she's not qualified.

The CNN survey indicates that 67 percent of people questioned say that Clinton is qualified to serve in the Oval Office, 17 points higher than the 50 percent of Americans who think that Biden's qualified to take over as president.

Biden's low number may be attributable to negative feelings about the Obama/Biden administration rather than views of Biden personally.

"In the past, poll respondents who dislike an administration have sometimes taken it out on the vice president," say Holland. Polls from the late 1990s showed that Americans felt Al Gore was qualified to be president, but only if respondents were given the chance to say something negative about Gore that was unrelated to his qualifications, he adds. In the Bush administration, the number who thought Dick Cheney was qualified to be president dropped as the administration grew more unpopular. "Cheney's experience in office didn't change during that period - attitudes toward the Bush/Cheney administration did," he says.

Hillary Clinton also has the advantage of having been able to stay out of domestic policy debates, including health care, the economic stimulus, and other controversial matters, while adding almost daily to her experience in foreign policy, Holland adds, while Biden has been involved in the domestic policy disputes - "which might explain why some respondents were looking for a reason to say something negative about the veep."

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted November 13-15, with 1,014 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall sample.