Poll: Majority Favor Waterboarding Flight 253 Suspect

Rasmussen also found that 100% of respondents think Scott Rasmussen is awesome.

Why does it not surprise me that Rasmussen would ask a question like that?

Oh yes, it's a hot debate going on out there in the heartland: To torture or not to torture.

Why not make it multiple choice? How about we see how waterboarding stacks up against ripping off fingernails, genital crushing, and sodomizing with a red hot iron?

That would sure have Rasmussen's preferred respondents drooling.

Another score for the destruction of the American character.
Do these people have reasoning ability? The reason WE don't torture is so that our soldiers won't be subjected to it.
Not to mention being immoral, wrong, unproductive and just criminal.
If we as a nation believe torture is correct under any circumstances, then we have lost all moral standards. We have ceded American leadership to the terrorists. By sinking to the level of barbarians we have become them.

Shame, shame shame

There were no criminal prosecutions for those Americans who waterboarded or ordered waterboarding, therefore it isn't a crime. Of course Americans want to use all legal avenues of interrogation - and thanks to the Bush/Obama axis, waterboarding has become recognized by Americans as a legal avenue of interrogation.

This forum has people hoping that Rush Limbaugh, a man who has broken no laws, suffers a long painful death. Yet, a terrorist who attempts to kill hundreds on Christmas day receives a pass.

Don't hurt the Islamic terrorist who wants to kill everyone of you!

You guys are really something. lol

Thank God we're a Christian nation. Oh, and how many ticking time bombs detonated during Khalil Sheikh Mohammed's 180+ waterboarding sessions? My guess would be 180+.

Notwithstanding Ratsmussen's reich-wing skew, this poll is distressing. The war on education is posting dividends once again. How can people be so stupid? It's incredible.

Our prior great leaders and founding fathers must be turning over in their graves. Lincoln, Roosevelt, Washington, Jefferson, etc., etc. If this poll was taken by a reich-winger in the 40's people would not have wanted the germans or japanese tortured, notwithstanding their crimes. We prosecuted them after the war for water boarding for pete's sake. This is really outrageous. In the 21st Century no less. We are going backward big time.

Maybe this will make it clear why Rassmussen polls always show lower numbers for Democrats:

As of 2009, Scott Rasmussen is the President of Rasmussen Reports. He describes himself as having "been an independent pollster for more than a decade" who "[l]ike the company he started, [...] maintains his independence and has never been a campaign pollster or consultant for candidates seeking office".

However, the Center for Public Integrity listed his firm as having been paid $95,500 by the Republican National Committee and $45,500 by the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 2003-4.
Republicans often use his polling to make their arguments. “Republicans right now are citing our polls more than Democrats because it’s in their interest to do so,” Scott Rasmussen said. “I would not consider myself a political conservative — that implies an alignment with Washington politics that I don’t think I have.”

But in the early days of his polling firm, when it was named Rasmussen Research, Rasmussan advocated for conservative views.

For a short time around the 2000 elections Scott Rasmussen wrote a column for WorldNetDaily, which describes itself as an "Independent conservative news website with an emphasis on aggressive investigative reporting".

Of course the Ramussen Poll found that the majority favor waterboarding--what TMC and Ramussen fail to disclosed is that the poll is directed at mostly Republicans. So of course you would get a majority to favor torture. The Republicans want to torture their so call enemies, even the "liberals" they so hate. Ramussen poll is a fraud and a disgrace. The one thing I dislike about TMC is that they continue to use it as a credible poll without disclosing that the numbers are fixed for the Republican party. Most know this but some may not.

Americans are not cowards, Republicans are cowards

This outlet is the only credible news outlet other than FOX that continues to site the Ramussen faux poll numbers. Who at TMC is an extreme right winger, we would like to know. Someone at TMC is in bed with the extreme right and tea party crowd.

Can you just stop citing Ramussen, please?

Rasmussen polls are skewed...like anything Frank Luntz touches, it has a tendency to drift right and prove his/their point rather than express true data or patterns. Rasmussen to polls is what Fox is to news...

A sad commentary.

Reality check, everyone! Acceptance of torture is the way our freedom ends, not public health care. Sure, this guy is a dirtbag, but he's also an American, and in America, even dirtbags are supposed to be treated like human beings when tried for a crime. Well what the heck, if torture is good for accused terrorists, let's torture gang members next. And if that works, how about Internet predators if you can find any? No one likes them very much anyway. Can you see where this is going?

So don't thump your chest and talk to me about freedom while you stand in favor of torturing anybody. If you do, you are a hypocrite. Oh wait, that's the definition of a Republicκ, isn't it?

Stay classy, Assmussen.

Well big surprise, Eric - what the fuck do you expect from a RASMUSSEN POLL???

PLEASE - Josh, Eric and all at TPM - stop lending credibility to this bullshit rightwing pollster by citing his numbers!!!

If the folks at TPM are going to report this pollster, then hopefully, they also have enough money to pay for the crosstabs and let us know the true demographical break down.

I am astounded that some here are so afraid of our own justice system. While looking at the DOJ website today, you could see that DOJ managed to successfully prosecute 2 terrorists this month...no fanfare, no media fear mongering, no threats of torture, nada.

If those here really believe that torture and murdering a suspect without a trial is good for our country, then I am glad that I am old and won't be around to see the country/ police state you are willing to support, unless of course, it happens to you!

And we wonder why America has lost it's moral standing in the world during the last decade?

Reagan began the destruction of America (see what condition a generation later his state of California is in) and Bush, Jr. just about finished the Federal job off.

If we would get off of our addiction to oil, we would quit interfering with these people who want us out of their lands in the first place, but who now must depend on us for some safety (how convenient...).

This seriously makes me quite sad that it is now okay in America to torture. We are isolationists now, even though Obama is trying to change that.

I was just thinking about the whole bomber episode and suddennly I just thought that this incident gives a whole new meaning to the phrase..."GOODNESS GRACIOUS GREAT BALLS AFIRE".....I'm just syaing.

We older people remember a time before Kiefer Sutherland legalized torture.

From the ask a silly question department:

Would you like to see Dick Cheney hung up by his gonads?

Respond directly to Rasmussen, it gathering information on
fantasies and freaks. It's planning a National Inquirer-like
cable show modeled after the Spanish Inquisition.

Other spectacles you might enjoy, just send them in.

Thanks Rasmussen ! Cant wait for the video game !