Not really, but still mostly, according to a new poll by Daily Kos/Research 2000 that asked some pretty pointed questions of a couple thousand Republicans.
For instance, when queried about who they would vote for in a presidential primary held today, 16 percent said Sarah Palin, 11 percent went for Mitt Romney, an alarming 10 percent said Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich brought a distant fourth at 7 percent.
To the question of whether Barack Obama should be impeached (no reason given) 39 percent were in favor, 32 percent were against, and almost as many — 29 percent were not sure.
Demonstrating that there is still a birther current streaming around in the Repugs’ Big Tent, with 36 percent saying Obama wasn’t born here, 42 percent saying he was and 22 percent having no clue.
By 63 to 21 percent, Republicans think Obama is a socialist. When asked whether they think Obama wants the terrorists to win, 24 percent said yes, 43 percent said no and a disquieting 33 percent said they didn’t know.
Asked whether ACORN stole the 2008 election, 21 percent said yes, 24 percent said no and more than half were not sure. But 53 percent believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama, and only 33 percent are not sure.
Fortunately, 58 percent said they didn’t think their state should secede from the union, but that leaves 42 percent who either favor secession or are not sure.
Homophobia still reigns supreme in Mr. Lincoln’s party, with 55 percent saying openly gay people should not be allowed to serve in the military, 77 percent coming out against gay marriage, 68 percent saying gays should not have any state or federal benefits (no Social Security or Medicaid for you, queers!), and 73 percent avowing that openly gay people should not be allowed to be teachers.
The rest of the poll is pretty predictable on abortion rights, the death penalty, creationism and whether the only way to get to heaven is through Jesus Christ (it is).
On whether the Republican Party can be rightly described as the “Party of No,” my research (I counted which questions had a plurality of yes or no votes, regardless of the question posed) and found that indeed they do deserve that moniker with 13 no votes to eight yes votes.