GOP More Out of Touch Than Ever
A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans found that that 63% believe that President Obama is a socialist, compared to 21% who say he is not and 16% that are not sure. More troubling, though, is that the poll found that 53% of Republicans surveyed believe that Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama. A meager 14% gawked at the outlandishness of the question and came to the rational conclusion that while no one will be mistaking Obama for Abe Lincoln anytime soon, the current president is certainly more qualified to hold such an esteemed and sacred office than the dimwitted Sarah Palin. 33% of our peers could not wrap their heads around the question and simply responded that they were not sure.
If you ran this poll among independents, it would be 80-20. All the more evidence that the mainstream of the Republican Party is startlingly out of touch with the mainstream of the country.