Sarah Palin's supporters

Read this quote in Newsweek and it really annoyed me:

Sarah Palin would make a good president because "she's a down-to-earth person who would fight against the government . . . Plus she's hot."

Aside from the obviously stupid comment at the end, this assertion makes no sense - the president is part of the government, is actually the head of a whole branch of the government. What are people like this thinking when they say ridiculous things like this?