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Vincent
06-22-2010, 11:56 PM
Meh. I don't agree with that. She's certainly more qualified than bho. Most folks reading this board are. Definitely more qualified that Mrs Palin. But Newt and Mitt? Nah.

Wouldn't mind seeing a Madam Rottweiler candidacy again at all. She'd wreak havoc on the Kenyan interloper's campaign. Might even knock him out of the box. And if she and Newt made it to the main event, the debates would be spectacular.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2010/voters_say_hillary_more_qualified_to_be_president_ than_obama_romney_gingrich_palin
Voters Say Hillary More Qualified To Be President Than Obama, Romney, Gingrich, Palin

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

U.S. voters think Hillary Clinton is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama, but most believe that both Democrats are more fit for the White House than three top Republicans interested in the job.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 57% of voters feel Clinton is qualified to be president, but 34% disagree and say she is not.

As for President Obama, 51% say he is fit for the job. However, 44% say he is not qualified to be president, even though he has now served 17 months in the job.

Nearly as many (49%) say former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, an unsuccessful candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, is qualified to be president of the United States. Thirty-two percent (32%) say Romney is not qualified, but another 20% are not sure.

Just 35% of voters say former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is qualified to be the nation’s chief executive. Nearly half (48%) say Gingrich is not fit for the office. Seventeen percent (17%) are undecided.

As for Sarah Palin, ex-governor of Alaska and the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, only 26% feel she is qualified to be president, but 61% do not. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.

The survey of 1,000 Likely U.S. Voters was conducted on June 17-18, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/-3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Male voters rate Romney and Clinton first and virtual equals in terms of qualifications. Female voters see Clinton first, Obama second.

Younger voters put Obama well ahead of the others.

The partisan differences are predictable. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of GOP voters rate Romney as qualified to be president, followed by 53% who say the same of Gingrich. Republican voters are evenly divided over whether Palin is fit to be president. But they view all three Republicans as more qualified than Clinton or Obama.

Nearly 80% of Democrats, on the other hand, view Obama and Clinton as qualified, but they overwhelmingly believe that Gingrich and Palin are not. Democrats are more closely divided over Romney’s qualifications.

Perhaps most telling are the responses of voters not affiliated with either major party. Sixty-one percent (61%) say Clinton is qualified for the White House, and a plurality (48%) say the same of Obama and Romney. Gingrich is a close call for unaffiliateds, but by better than two-to-one, they say Palin is not fit to be president.

Sixty-four percent (64%) of all voters say it is at least somewhat likely that the next president will be a Republican, with 40% who say it is Very Likely. But it’s important to note that the question does not say whether this president will be elected in 2012 or 2016.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) have a favorable opinion of Clinton, while 41% view her unfavorably.

Late last October, 27% of voters said Clinton would be doing a better job as president if she had been elected instead of Obama. Fourteen percent (14%) said she would be doing worse, and 49% said the two would be performing about the same.

According to the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll today, 46% of voters nationwide say they at least somewhat approve of Obama’s performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.

Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republican voters continue to believe that GOP members of Congress have lost touch with the party base throughout the nation over the past several years. By contrast, 61% of Democratic voters think their representatives in Congress have done a good job of representing Democratic values over the past several years.

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of GOP voters believes Palin shares the values of most GOP voters throughout the nation.

Romney has consistently run stronger than Gingrich and Palin among both Republicans and voters in general in surveys over the past year.

Mach1
06-23-2010, 12:06 AM
Meh. I don't agree with that. She's certainly more qualified than bho.

The turd I flushed down the toilet this morning is more qualified than bho.

tony hipchest
06-23-2010, 12:21 AM
:toofunny:

this most definitely belongs in the "Bash/Make fun of Republicans" thread.

priceless. i do agree that a newt/salamander debate would be pretty entertaining.

SteelerEmpire
06-23-2010, 03:00 AM
I WAS UNDER SNIPER FIRE !!! LOL !!! No... I disagree with this poll... This country is in an "extraordinary situation" that will take an "extraordinary effort" to rectify. The pool of politicians out there all have about the same general level of intelligence and brilliance... Once again, I don't see ANY of them doing a much better job than what's already being done... If there is a "genius" politician out there... will he/she step forward...

HometownGal
06-23-2010, 07:31 AM
The turd I flushed down the toilet this morning is more qualified than bho.

Can't say I disagree. Though I'm not a fan of Ms. Rottweiler, after the last 17 months of this Bonehead-In-Chief, I'd rather have her fat ass sitting in the Oval Office. As far as the GOP'ers mentioned in the poll, Romney is the ONLY one I would even consider supporting in the next election and that's a stretch.

MasterOfPuppets
06-23-2010, 08:34 AM
http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/political-pictures-bill-hillary-clinton-slept-her2.jpg

http://www.guzer.com/pictures/mean-hillary-sign.jpg

Vincent
06-23-2010, 09:03 AM
http://www.guzer.com/pictures/mean-hillary-sign.jpg

Sister Frigidaire ain't in the bidness of satisfying men.

X-Terminator
06-23-2010, 10:33 AM
I could not think of 5 worse candidates for President than these clowns. :doh: Obama...well, I think we know what he's done in 17 months, and it hasn't been good. Hillary? Are you serious? Gingrich and Palin are as far to the right as Obama is to the left. No thank you. Romney gave us the blueprint for Obamacare when he was governor of Massachusetts, which has turned out to be a complete disaster on a much smaller scale than Obamacare will ultimately be. That right there disqualifies him from any consideration.

Can we get "Nobody" put on the ballot? That would be the one I'd pick. At least it couldn't fuck up the country any more than those Keystone Cops have and would.

ricardisimo
06-23-2010, 02:18 PM
Heaven forbid anyone even consider voting 3rd party. There are exquisitely well-qualified Greens and Libs, as well as News, P&Fs, Socialists, hell, even the Tea Party at least has something different to say.

Why are Republicans and Democrats ok with not voting, but not OK with voting 3rd Party, in protest or as a genuine preference?

X-Terminator
06-23-2010, 02:30 PM
Heaven forbid anyone even consider voting 3rd party. There are exquisitely well-qualified Greens and Libs, as well as News, P&Fs, Socialists, hell, even the Tea Party at least has something different to say.

Why are Republicans and Democrats ok with not voting, but not OK with voting 3rd Party, in protest or as a genuine preference?

Too many fringe kooks for my liking in all of those parties/movements. Otherwise they'd probably get more attention than they do. I like the Libertarians, even though I don't agree with everything they stand for, but again, too many fringe kooks. I'm not sure I want a person like that leading this country.

suitanim
06-23-2010, 04:04 PM
Hillary is getting foreign policy on-the-job-training that is literally invaluable. I don't care for her, and I will never forget or forgive the Clinton attack machine, but as far as the FOREIGN side, there are few people in this country more qualified than her. She's also a part of the New Democrats, or the DLC. They are the most conservative wing of the Democrat party.

Obama and Palin are jokes. Their experience is negligible...but Palin is MORE experienced, of course, since she has Executive experience. Romney is above both of them, especially domestically. Now, Newt Gingrich, experience-wise, probably trumps all of them. But the American people spoke very loudly last election about how little they care about actual real-world experience, domestically or foreign-policy wise, when they passed over uber experienced McCain for some empty campaign promises and a slickly marketed lies from community organizer Obama.

Godfather
06-23-2010, 06:18 PM
Hillary is certainly qualified. She was Bill's co-president.

I would love to have Palin as President. I'll pass on Romney because of Masscare, and his overall record of bending over for the idiots on the extreme left.

I kind of wish the next election were 2014. That would allow the rising stars like Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Chris Christie, etc. to get a little more experience under their belt. I like Bobby Jindal too but I don't know if he's electable.

NJarhead
06-23-2010, 06:21 PM
She doesn't even know who to be the Secretary of State. The lesser of the two evils is definitely Hopey Change.

ricardisimo
06-24-2010, 03:51 AM
Too many fringe kooks for my liking in all of those parties/movements. Otherwise they'd probably get more attention than they do. I like the Libertarians, even though I don't agree with everything they stand for, but again, too many fringe kooks. I'm not sure I want a person like that leading this country.

You mean to tell me that you don't think of George Bush and Barack Obama as "fringe kooks"? What qualities are they lacking, pray tell?

SteelerEmpire
06-24-2010, 03:21 PM
Just remember that Obama is a professional politician... While he may not be many things, he knows how to win elections... After all, what were the chances of a black man becoming president in the first place ? I think that caught everyone by surprise... he's got one hell of an election team.,, Look for a good many of the "promises" he made to mysteriously come to pass around the time the 2012 election season begins to kick off...

ricardisimo
06-24-2010, 04:35 PM
Just remember that Obama is a professional politician... While he may not be many things, he knows how to win elections... After all, what were the chances of a black man becoming president in the first place ? I think that caught everyone by surprise... he's got one hell of an election team.,, Look for a good many of the "promises" he made to mysteriously come to pass around the time the 2012 election season begins to kick off...

Yes, he knows how to win: collect twice as much in campaign contributions as your senile, septuagenarian opponent, and still barely eke out a 52% victory. Considering the amounts of money involved, that's pathetic. On the other hand, it speaks very well of the American public, who obviously could smell the bullshit beneath all of the perfume.

"Decline to state" is the fastest growing party, last I checked. That should be telling us all we need to know about the two-party system.

SteelerEmpire
06-24-2010, 07:15 PM
Yes, he knows how to win: collect twice as much in campaign contributions as your senile, septuagenarian opponent, and still barely eke out a 52% victory. Considering the amounts of money involved, that's pathetic. On the other hand, it speaks very well of the American public, who obviously could smell the bullshit beneath all of the perfume.

"Decline to state" is the fastest growing party, last I checked. That should be telling us all we need to know about the two-party system.

Correct. But remember... this was a black man that did all this... pretty impressive given the historic treatment of african americans in this country... Him winning the Presidentcy was a feat in itself...

suitanim
06-25-2010, 07:57 AM
Therein lies the key to his victory in '08. He lied about public financing, then went off on his own, collected zillions, and effectively bought the election by out-spending McCain 8-1 in all the key battleground states.

Well, that and promising everything to everyone...and we all know how THAT has turned out so far.

st33lersguy
06-28-2010, 03:41 PM
Voters say the wicked witch of the east is more qualified than Gingrich and Palin? Wake up America! Apparently there are still plenty of idiots out there still listening to all the left wing propoganda

ricardisimo
06-28-2010, 04:50 PM
Voters say the wicked witch of the east is more qualified than Gingrich and Palin? Wake up America! Apparently there are still plenty of idiots out there still listening to all the left wing propoganda

"Left wing propaganda"? You keep using that phrase... I do not think this phrase means what you think it means.
http://www.made2mentor.com/Images/inigo1.jpg

st33lersguy
06-28-2010, 06:55 PM
"Left wing propaganda"? You keep using that phrase... I do not think this phrase means what you think it means.
http://www.made2mentor.com/Images/inigo1.jpg

So you don't think left wing propoganda is blacking out the problems and flaws of socialism and teaching that it is good or that the constitution is open to leftist interpretations? What do you think it means?

ricardisimo
06-29-2010, 03:05 AM
So you don't think left wing propoganda is blacking out the problems and flaws of socialism and teaching that it is good or that the constitution is open to leftist interpretations? What do you think it means?

I don't think there's a left wing in this country to produce any propaganda.