# Dear God, thank you for not electing Sarah Palin **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 6, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399 "2008-11-06T03:01:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/21 "2008-11-06T04:21:09Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > Watch Bill O try to spin Sarah Palin’s breathtaking ignorance as a _good thing._ > > [Sarah Palin couldn’t name the countries in North America.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-didnt-know-africa-i_n_141653.html) They always forget [France](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon) and [Denmark](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland). Wait, she couldn’t name Canada? What did she think that thing along the highway between Alaska and Seattle was, anyways? Disneyland? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/22 "2008-11-06T04:22:57Z")
No surprise here, anyone who stands on the Creationist side of the divide is an oligophrenic numbskull. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/23 "2008-11-06T04:26:58Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > They always forget [France](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon) and [Denmark](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland). > > Wait, she couldn’t name Canada? What did she think that thing along the highway between Alaska and Seattle was, anyways? Disneyland? Home of Mickey Moose. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/24 "2008-11-06T04:44:25Z")
Dear **Fish** , I had nothing to do with this. You people elect your own leaders and create your own Heaven or Hell. Signed, YHVH ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/25 "2008-11-06T08:27:57Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > They always forget [France](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon) and [Denmark](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland). > > Wait, she couldn’t name Canada? What did she think that thing along the highway between Alaska and Seattle was, anyways? Disneyland? Given the prank call, she doesn’t know who the PM is, so I’m not surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/26 "2008-11-06T08:55:59Z")
And yet McCain and his crew picked her. Out of a few hundred million Americans, she was the best they cold come up with. I wonder, which is scarier: a truly ignorant person one heartbeat away from the presidency, or a president who selected such a person for the number two slot? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/27 "2008-11-06T09:09:13Z")
Riiight. Africa’s a continent. Next you’re gonna tell me Australia is too. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/28 "2008-11-06T09:47:11Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Riiight. Africa’s a continent. Next you’re gonna tell me Australia is too. Nope, Australia is not a continent. Europe is a continent. Australia is a country next to Germany on the European continent. Sheesh… ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/29 "2008-11-06T11:25:42Z")
> [@Mellivora\_capensis](#): > > Nope, Australia is not a continent. Europe is a continent. Australia is a country next to Germany on the European continent. > > Sheesh… You don’t happen to work for the U.S. Postal Service, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/30 "2008-11-06T11:39:06Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > …Wait, she couldn’t name Canada? What did she think that thing along the highway between Alaska and Seattle was, anyways? Disneyland? She could probably ONLY name Canada. _North_ America is the space north of America, right? Mexico is in _South_ America. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/31 "2008-11-06T11:44:38Z")
If this it’s true, it’s very scary. I can forgive a governor for not knowing all the participants in CAFTA. (Really DR-CAFTA now!) But the membership list for NAFTA is pretty short. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/32 "2008-11-06T11:50:32Z")
I have to admit a great deal of skepticism about these stories, even as I welcome the opportunity to make more Palin jokes. Seriously, it’s hard to imagine someone could get past 4th grade not knowing the things they claim she doesn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/33 "2008-11-06T13:19:22Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I wonder, which is scarier: a truly ignorant person one heartbeat away from the presidency, or a president who selected such a person for the number two slot? Who’s the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him? [Palin] “NAFTA? Sorry, I don’t really follow stock car racing…” [/Palin] ---
**Author:** ![darkgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@darkgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkgoddess)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/34 "2008-11-06T14:58:14Z")
I vote for truly stupid. She didn’t bother to find out what the VP’s job is ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/35 "2008-11-06T15:05:15Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > I have a hard time believing the stuff that was being reported in that link, and I say this as someone profoundly unimpressed with Palin. **How on earth can anyone who reads all the magazines** not know which countries are party to NAFTA? It’s not like it’s a long list. asked and answered, I think… Remember, she won the election to Governor of Alaska by not being the incumbent, who had the second-lowest gubernatorial approval rating in the country at the time. She had to have a pulse and look good on camera, and that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/36 "2008-11-06T15:09:20Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > And yet McCain and his crew picked her. Out of a few hundred million Americans, she was the best they cold come up with. Their criteria for VP candidate seemed to be a fairly short list: (a) Republican (b) In politics (c) conservative (d) christian (e) female (f) shorter than McCain Winner! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/37 "2008-11-06T15:28:10Z")
I’m generally not one to point and laugh at other people’s expense, but I have to say I am enjoying these stories to no end. And I, for one, am not the least bit surprised either. I was shocked initially that McCain would pick a relative nobody for the ticket. But I wasn’t dismissive because she was a woman or from a rural state. I suppose I was on one side of the religion issue – but, fuck, that’s true for about 95% of Republicans. But when she started flapping her gums and sounding like a moron on national television on the order of ever other week – fuck, every other day sometimes-- you gotta see the writing on the wall. She is not a very knowledgeable person. Not dumb – she presents herself well, she’s articulate – but she doesn’t know shit from shinola. And it’s beginning to sound like the national spotlight went to her head at mach speed. Diva, indeed. I’m sure when it gets down to kicking her metaphorical corpse around in the op-eds it will become pathetic … but right now it’s incredibly entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/38 "2008-11-06T15:46:56Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Their criteria for VP candidate seemed to be a fairly short list: > > (a) Republican > (b) In politics > (c) conservative > (d) christian > (e) female > (f) shorter than McCain > > Winner! Pro-Life. (That’s probably in your ‘conservative’ - but I think when push comes to shove, it was that litmus test that did them in). There were more qualified female Republicans - but the truth is that MANY Republican women holding high office are Pro-Choice (plenty of pro-Life female Representatives - not so many Govenors and Senators). ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/39 "2008-11-06T15:47:21Z")
Amen to that. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399/40 "2008-11-06T15:48:05Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > She could probably ONLY name Canada. _North_ America is the space north of America, right? Mexico is in _South_ America. And \*Central America \* is where the red states are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-thank-you-for-not-electing-sarah-palin/471399.md?page=3)