Are Americans stupid enough to elect Sarah Palin president?

[undeterred]

[liberal N proud]

1. Think back 9 years

Did anyone think that voters would give bu$h enough votes that they could steal the election?

It can happen again!

[Andy823]

24. Well

As much as I hated Bush, Palin makes him actually look smart! I don't think the majority of people in this country are crazy enough to vote for her. The more they see her, and her hand, they more they will see that this woman doesn't have a clue as to what is going on in this world. She is after her share of the big "MONEY" and even though she may try and make a run, there is no way that the republicans with the power are going to let her be the nominee!

Her followers are the nut wing of the right wing, and that's pretty far out there. They love her, but they will never be able to gather enough support to put her as the nominee, let alone as the next president of the U.S.! I think she knows this, and she is just going to keep on taking advantage of these crazy people and do all the "PAID" speeches she can, making hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop, until they figure out what is going on, and that could take a few years! She will become rich, and her followers try and find another nut to follow!

[RoccoR5955]

26. BUSH NEVER WON

They never counted the votes in Floriduh!

[spanone]

41. she won't have to win either

[liberal N proud]

48. I said enough voted for him that they could steal it

If the vote is not close they cannot steal the election.

[Warren Stupidity]

57. Why does that give you any comfort?

[peace frog]

2. Even a proportion of teabaggers

have pegged Palin as extremely bad news. If she can't hold her base, she has not a snowball's chance in hell.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Yes, though it isn't stupidity...

If they don't feel secure in the economy, Americans will happily elect Palin. But 2012 is along way away. A better question would be "Will AMericans return the majority in the House and/or the Senate to Republcians?

[AndyA]

4. You ask this with a straight face after suffering through 8 years of George W. Bush?

Oh...my bad...you said elect.

We all know Bush wasn't elected, he was appointed. :puke:

[OhioChick]

5. They were stupid enough to elect bush twice. n/t

[Taverner]

6. Americans are that stupid and then some

They elected Bush twice

Most of them think Iraq was behind 9/11

Most of them think all muslims are arabs, and vice versa

So yeah, I could see the United States of Stupid doing this

[LostInAnomie]

7. No

It's obvious to even most Republicans that she's a moron. She only has support from Bush's very vocal 23% and the media that loves a clown car wreck.

She would never make it out of a Republican primary. There's too much dirty laundry for Mitten's to dredge up.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. !!!!!!!!!

yes

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. IOW, she has the same support that W had.

I remember thinking oh so long ago that Americans were too smart to ever elect Bush.

Consider just how dumb the average American is. Half are dumber than that.

[LostInAnomie]

30. She has the same support W had at the end of his second term.

In 2000, it wasn't obvious to 77% that Bush was completely incompetent. In 2004, he had 9/11 and two wars fueling a wave of faux-patriotism and still almost was beaten.

Palin doesn't have that behind her. It's obvious to all Democrats and a majority of Republicans that she's an idiot.

[stray cat]

8. W was elected and re-elected!

[undeterred]

13. No, he was appointed and the second time it was stolen.

But he probably came close to actually being elected both times.

[RoccoR5955]

29. Dumbya was NOT elected

He was appointed by the Supremes Court. They never counted all the votes in Floriduh.

[DainBramaged]

9. 60 MILLION idiots were stupid enough to vote for McLame....

this is too easy. We're seeing the dumbing down of America........

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. No. W may have been just as dumb but he had the Family machine/network behind him.

And it was the only really functioning Repub network at the time. Too many competing factions now.

[lpbk2713]

11. THIS is why I worry ---->

[Laf.La.Dem.]

19. Thank goodness I was not one of those

50,054,087

[Chisox08]

12. Enough Americans were stupid enough to vote for Bush

So that he was able to steal two elections.

[Sebastian Doyle]

14. Is the American electoral system so thoroughly corrupted by the Diebold/ES&S machines

that the stupid people will believe Sarah Palin was elected pResident?

That hardcore stupid base only adds up to 20% of the voters. And since half the people never show up to vote at all, it's really only 10% of the population.

600 fucking people showed up at the Teabaggerpalooza. Half of them were probably the mediawhores hyping the event, especially Moosealini's dumb ass rantings and hand scribbling. These people aren't winning any election.

Corrupt machines just might. Especially with Obama alienating the very people who elected him. Massive turnout is the only thing that can beat massive fraud, and if the election were held today, I don't think he would have it.

[Vidar]

15. After W, anything is possible.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. She's on a roll,

but I don't know if she can keep it up for three years before she melts down completely. I'm listening to Geoffrey Dunn (who was at the logger confab) on Shannyn Moore's show right now, and he's clearly concerned. http://kudo1080.com/

[EFerrari]

18. No, but they may be stupid enough to endure another stolen presidential election.

[CanonRay]

21. Yes, but there probably aren't enough of them. Yet.

[NoKoolAideForMeThx]

22. I NEVER

cease to be amazed at the breath-taking stupidity of some of my fellow citizens...................:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

[sinkingfeeling]

23. About 30% are stupid enough. Thankfully, there are more who aren't.

[Toasterlad]

25. America Is Pretty Fucking Stupid, But Not THAT Stupid.

Palin is a joke to the vast majority of this country. Even if the independents stay home (which they will), there aren't enough nutjobs to get Palin elected.

[driver8]

27. Any country that will put Dubya in office TWICE -- will put anyone in office.

It may seem farfetched, but it scares the shit out of me!!

[DKRC]

28. No, but if she runs she stands a good chance

of being selected pResident by the same people who selected the pResident in 2000 & 2004.

Recent history has shown us:

~ Those who vote decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything.
~ The SCOTUS has proven that what's best for Repugs trumps everything.

[undeterred]

53. And those who don't vote at all because they think the system

is too slimy, are usually on the Left.

[Lerkfish]

31. Some americans are.

[JackRiddler]

32. No, but they may be just stupid enough to elect whoever she endorses.

[leftstreet]

33. Are the Democrats stupid enough to let her co-opt populism?

:shrug:

[Better Believe It]

47. Yes!

People want "populist" actions, not just talk. Anyone can talk a good game.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

34. No.

There's no comparison between the public image of Sarah Palin now and the public image of Bush during the 2000 election.

And people seems to be forgetting that we already kicked Sarah Palin's ass in a national election.

[Whisp]

35. yes

if so called smart liberals think Obama is a right wing corportist do nothing pussy, yes America is ripe for carrying their stupdities to the extremities

[omega minimo]

36. They elected Reagan. Twice. So yeah. Reagan was unbelievable, as unbelievable as she is.

:evilfrown:

[treestar]

37. No.

Being a heartbeat away was enough to get swing voters to vote for Obama.

Being the major candidate? No way would those swing voters be that dumb. The people who support her are the absolute right, not numerous enough for her to even get the R nomination.

[Iggo]

38. Yeah, but not enough of 'em, thank jeebus.

[tom_paine]

40. You are misunderstanding the dynamics of authoritarian movements, Iggo

The Nazi Party was only 10% of Germany in 1932-3, I believe.

I am afraid I must disagree, for there is more than enough of them and the rest of the American Subject Population is so beat down, TV-zombified, exhausted, harried, and hurried that it can do little except go along to get along.

Some reading material for you:

http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/jaspers02.htm

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

[tom_paine]

39. As we are very psychologically close to the 1933 Germans, as a nation, I don't think there is

ANYTHING we wouldn't do, especially if times start getting economically brutal.

That's something of an oversimplification, but we already have the virulent 10% Nazi Party, the 20% "Nazis without the guts to look their victims in the eye" to cheerlead from the sidelines, and the 60% or more sheeplike Good German part and the laws all ready to go to Nazi us up, made during the reign of Bushler and ready to be turned like a key in an ignition.

As the Totalitarian Future and whatever the Final Solution our Corporate Bushies have in store for us rushes toward us, remember what I said.

Very soon, if not already, there is not an atrocity, not an evil, that "we" would not do, especially if it is marketed and rebranded properly.

[RedCappedBandit]

42. The other side does not think Palin is stupid

How the fuck that is possible, I have no idea.

My brother is friends with a person I consider to be quite intelligent. Unfortunately, that person is exceedingly conservative. Somehow, he thinks Palin is underestimated by the left.

Either he's delusional, she's putting on an act, or both.

But yes, this country is surely misguided enough to elect her.

[Warren Stupidity]

58. That is because the other side is overflowing with Teh Supid.

[Quixote1818]

43. No, most Republican's don't even like her. They played her speech yesterday

on a local conservative station where 90% of the callers are conservative. Almost none of the callers liked her. One negative call after another about her and these callers all sounded like redneck, card carrying NRA members. The main complaint was that they could not stand her voice. She has a fan base that loves her but beyond that she will divide the Republican party between the nuts the moderates and those who don't like women with annoying voices.

[Contrary1]

44. Some Americans are stupid enough to try...

But it will backfire on them. She can't win the Republican nomination, and as the Teabagger Party candidate, she will siphon enough votes from them to ensure a Democratic victory.

[tallahasseedem]

45. I voted..

my head hurts. I think she would get a lot of votes, but she wont be able to garner the Democratic and Independent vote. She is so horrible that she can even unite us here at DU to make sure she wouldn't win.

[Better Believe It]

46. If Democrats are incapable of governing and running this nation the answer is yes.

They have a big majority in the House, the Senate and run the executive branch of government.

What more do they need to govern and lead this nation out of the Great Recession and health care crisis?

[Echo In Light]

49. Many, as scary as it is, yes, are - however, the US populace doesn't decide "elections" anyway...

... so it's more a matter of, if vested interests actually wanted her as the chief actor for four yrs, could they effectively 'sell' her via the M$M, along with the entire industry of professional punditry/spin, to the extent that when those interests secure an 'election victory' for her, would enough dim bulbs buy the results. As we saw w/Bush, twice!!!...yes, many unfortunately are that willfully blind.

[mnhtnbb]

50. Sarah Palin is Bush in a dress. If she agrees to let the powers that be pull

the strings, we'll see her as President.

God help us.

[stuntcat]

51. I'm afraid of Americans

honestly. Humans are monsters, especially racist consumers who don't care past next week. If I hadn't already given up on my species completely then this would worry the fuck out of me.
Nothing we let happen will surprise me now.

[muffin1]

52. The American public is pretty stupid,

but she could never in a million years win the general election. She would get her base, and even if she managed to increase the size of it a little, she would never get 51% of the vote.

It would be fun if she managed to win in the primaries, though. Can you just imagine the debates? The interviews? She would have to do a hell of a lot more public speaking than she did as a Vice-Presidential candidate. She would have to do all of the networks - not just Faux.

Oh god, that we're even discussing this is surreal. I will never forgive John McCain for dragging her out of Wasilla and giving her to us.

[graywarrior]

54. Scott Brown (R) MA

[Raine]

55. Some are

hopefully they're out numbered though. :yoiks:

[Geek_Girl]

56. I hope not

But she's pretty much a female version of George W Bush in my opinion so anythings possible.