# Ladies & gentlemen, your future vice president! (Palin interview by Katie Couric) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 25, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174 "2008-09-25T17:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [September 26, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/161 "2008-09-26T22:39:34Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Premptive apology accepted. Georgie Tirebiter is the\* Vice Presidential \*nominee of the Natural Surrealist Party, which makes the jape even more insightful and trenchant. > > You would be well advised not to question my scholarship and authority in matters to do with drug-related humor. Do you have both volumes of the scripts, young man? Or the single? I don’t remember George Leroy Tirebiter on the 5th album at all. I’ll need to investigate. Maybe I’ll take a speedy cruise boat … And I was listening to them while not on drugs, so I might have heard them better. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/162 "2008-09-26T22:51:14Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > …And I was listening to them while not on drugs, so I might have heard them better. 😛 Oh, I quite agree, I always made a point of revisiting favorites while unenhanced. Otherwise, I might never have known how savagely the Moody Blues sucked dead donkey dong. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/163 "2008-09-26T22:58:11Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > If your position on a person wholly unsuitable for the Presidency is “well, there will be people around to keep her/him in line,” then why are you even bothering to vote? Because I’m not going to cede the election to the other side. Because I agree with her more than I agree with Obama-Biden. Because I’m voting for McCain as President & her as VP. Because admitting that she’s “in over her head” isn’t the same as saying that she’s “wholly unsuitable for the Presidency”. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/164 "2008-09-26T22:59:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Otherwise, I might never have known how savagely the Moody Blues sucked dead donkey dong. WHAT?!?!?! Sloooowly, I turned… ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/165 "2008-09-26T22:59:49Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > Well, you didn’t ask this time…but it seems relevant: > > [Palin, or Miss Teen South Carolina?](http://gawker.com/5055560/palin-or-miss-teen-south-carolina) Is it too late to choose Miss Teen South Carolina? ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/166 "2008-09-26T23:13:12Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Because I agree with her more than I agree with Obama-Biden. How in the world can you tell? 🙂 Shoot, I think I may agree with her. I just have no idea. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/167 "2008-09-26T23:49:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Oh, I quite agree, I always made a point of revisiting favorites while unenhanced. Otherwise, I might never have known how savagely the Moody Blues sucked dead donkey dong. Ah, and I never thought they didn’t. I did listen to them, when I wanted noise I could ignore while working on my problem sets, though. Timothy Leary … ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/168 "2008-09-27T00:09:35Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Ah, and I never thought they didn’t. I did listen to them, when I wanted noise I could ignore while working on my problem sets, though… You couldn’t have rented a busted chainsaw? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/169 "2008-09-27T03:18:14Z")
So, in his response to the debate tonight Biden got confused with mainstream and main street, but what gets me is that right after his leader reports that there are still more troops in Iraq now then before the surge Biden claims that the surge is over . Is he really clued in ? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/170 "2008-09-27T03:30:52Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > So, in his response to the debate tonight Biden got confused with mainstream and main street, but what gets me is that right after his leader reports that there are still more troops in Iraq now then before the surge Biden claims that the surge is over . Is he really clued in ? There are fewer troops in Iraq than there were at the peak of the surge. This is because the surge is over and troops are being withdrawn. Will _you_ please become clued in? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/171 "2008-09-27T03:36:32Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > There are fewer troops in Iraq than there were at the peak of the surge. This is because the surge is over and troops are being withdrawn. Will _you_ please become clued in? I suppose if a climb a mountain and I’ve begun to descend from the peak I’m already off the mountain? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/172 "2008-09-27T03:46:58Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > I suppose if a climb a mountain and I’ve begun to descend from the peak I’m already off the mountain? Your attempt to climb the mountain is over. You drop oxygen bottles, spare gloves, etc. Any further questions? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/173 "2008-09-27T04:08:03Z")
Wait… so the mountain is the war, right? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/174 "2008-09-27T04:10:12Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Whoa, no critique intended, nor even contemplated. If it arrived looking like a barb, it was sent as a Nerf ball. Not at all! I enjoyed the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/175 "2008-09-27T05:51:45Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Wait… so the mountain is the war, right? And Palin is the lipstick on the mountain. Putin is Sasquatch. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/176 "2008-09-27T06:15:56Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You couldn’t have rented a busted chainsaw? hmm, good point. But the ones I looked at didn’t have a volume control. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/177 "2008-09-27T07:05:17Z")
On the up side, one of the kids could be Leatherface for Halloween. You’d be the talk of the neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/178 "2008-09-27T07:06:27Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Not at all! I enjoyed the joke. Well, then. More tea? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/179 "2008-09-27T07:20:56Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I don’t remember George Leroy Tirebiter on the 5th album at all. I’ll need to investigate. Maybe I’ll take a speedy cruise boat … 😛 Do you take a fast tube train to International Atomic Occupation Abandoned Police Headquarters? Bad food and bad people go together at The Bamba Shelter! Silly **drop** , I thought I was the only Bozo who bought that album, much less memorized it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174/180 "2008-09-27T07:51:28Z")
Hell, I’d pay to get that Turkish nightmare side out of my head. Weapons grade twisted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-gentlemen-your-future-vice-president-palin-interview-by-katie-couric/465174.md?page=10)