67%

Percent of all registered voters who view Sarah Palin as not qualified to be president, according to a new ABC/Washington Post poll — a figure that has not changed since spring. In an interview with Mary Hart on “Entertainment Tonight” yesterday, Palin all but acknowledged that she plans to run for president in 2012.

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Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, the most anti-defense Senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I have had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. So when you hear her say that she supports the men and women in the military, my friends, she does not. Because she has never supported the mission; she has never supported victory…

296

Number of advertisers who have boycotted Glenn Beck’s show on Fox since Sept. 28, 2009 — the day he accused Pres. Obama of having “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture,” and said, “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.”

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents.

- Former Pres. Jimmy Carter, speaking the truth — he has been the most active and productive former president in our history. He later walked back the comment: “What I meant was, for 27 years the Carter Center has provided me with superior opportunities to do good.” But he was correct the first time.

What happened in my particular race, you had the Tea Party Express, this California-based group, come in at the last minute in a campaign, run a mudslinging, smear — just a terrible, terrible campaign, with lies and fabrications and mischaracterization.They came in, they dumped $600,000 into a small market here in Alaska, and they absolutely clearly influenced the outcome of that election … I don’t think that it’s particularly helpful [for Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)] to undercut fellow Republicans, but as I say, it’s his prerogative … I think that he has made people uncomfortable. I think that he has kind of rattled the cages. Whether it advances to a full-on civil war, I don’t know.

– Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on CNN’s “State of the Union,” on Sunday.

God worried that Sarah Palin appeared too dumb. And then he created Christine O’Donnell.

- Andy Borowitz, humorist and author of the Borowitz Report

#41yearoldvirgin An acceptable Twitter hash tag when referring to Christine O’Donnell, the abstinence advocate who is running as the GOP-tea party candidate from Delaware for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Chris Coon. (Credit: RudePundit.)

Before TV, an idiot like Terry Jones would be confined to his village.

-Humorist Andy Borowitz on Twitter.

Permits should not be granted to build even one more mosque in the United States of America, let alone the monstrosity planned for ground zero. This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

- Bryan Fischer, a blogger for the right-wing hate group, American Family Association, which has raised millions of dollars over the years by stoking hatred of gays among its Christian-extremist donor pool — but with acceptance of gay rights rising in the polls and the multi-million dollar budgets of AFA’s anti-gay competitor groups shrinking to the point that employees are being laid off, Fischer’s attack on Muslims may signal that AFA will add Islamic hatred to its fundraising appeals.