15. Do you think that a Muslim should be allowed to …
Run for President of the United States?
Yes: 61%
No: 32%
No answer/Don’t know: 7%Serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Yes: 65%
No: 28%
No answer/Don’t know: 7%
Almost one-third of the country would bar Muslims from running for President? More than one-fourth would bar them from serving on the Supreme Court? Holy fucking wow!
The person having the last laugh would have to be George W. Bush. When he embraced torture by other names, and started to trample on some of our more cherished American values, there was a loud outcry from liberals that we, as a country, are better than this. But Bush apparently knew all along who we really are. Or who we were in the process of turning into (with a little bit of help from professional conservative hatemongers.)