Sarah Palin said she may be eying the presidency in 2012, but it appears even one of her biggest ostensible allies have doubts about whether she can do the job.

Former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), who gave the opening speech at the recent Tea Party convention that Palin keynoted, said Sunday that the former vice presidential candidate isn’t quite cut out for the highest office in the land.

“I really don’t have this feeling about her as being presidential,” Tancredo told the Colorado paper NRC Handelsblad. “I don’t know what it is exactly. I don’t know if the issues really are that difficult for her or not.”

In an interview with Fox News that aired just after her Tea Party speech, Palin, now a Fox contributor, signaled in her strongest terms yet an interest in seeking the presidency, saying it would be “absurd” not to consider it.

Tancredo wondered whether it was all for show or whether she really wanted it. “As governor of the state of Alaska, she doesn’t have all that kind of experience,” he said. “She can get better. But I don’t know if she is really looking to do it.”

Long before Palin signaled any interest in seeking the White House again, her conservative fans were speculating and encouraging her. The prospect of “President Palin” earned thunderous applause at the Tea Party convention. But that would be a long road ahead, it seems.

A Washington Post/ABC News poll released soon after the Tea Party convention found that a towering 71 percent of Americans deem Palin “not qualified” to be president. Her negatives have been steadily rising.

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