# Palin/Bachmann /'12 **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 22, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928 "2010-01-22T00:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/1 "2010-01-22T00:31:09Z")
Fark Headline attached to this: “I felt a great disturbance in the Fark, as if millions of headlines suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.” [Palin to campaign for Bachman](http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/house/82158242.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUUUnciaec8O7EyUsl) The last paragraph of the article; _In some conservative and Republican circles there has been persistent buzz about a Palin-Bachmann presidential ticket in 2012. A Google search for “Palin Bachmann 2012” produces more than 2 million hits._ :eek::eek::eek::eek: Ok folks, we started that idea here as a JOKE. Please Please Please dear Og, God, Allah, Vishnu and Gaia, let this be a JOKE!!! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/2 "2010-01-22T00:45:52Z")
No, let it be _serious_! They really would be my dream ticket to face. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/3 "2010-01-22T01:30:57Z")
Now, Universe, I know I haven’t been a very good pantheist, but if you could just give me this one little favor… ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/4 "2010-01-22T01:37:47Z")
Moved from The BBQ Pit to Great Debates. **Gfactor** Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/5 "2010-01-22T01:40:57Z")
So, are there “Shit-for-Brains/Batshit-Crazy” bumper stickers in our future? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/6 "2010-01-22T01:52:08Z")
My flippant answer when this has come up before has always been along the lines of ‘Yeah, please do run’, but in all seriousness, if a Palin/Bachmann ticket does get the nomination, IMO the country would not be well served, whether or not they took the general election. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/7 "2010-01-22T01:57:01Z")
N.B.: The story says Palin is offering to campaign for Bachmann for re-election to **Congress.** Not a presidential ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/8 "2010-01-22T02:29:21Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Ok folks, we started that idea here as a JOKE. Please Please Please dear Og, God, Allah, Vishnu and Gaia, let this be a JOKE!!! Yeah right, it started here. Just like when they called someone an asshat on Big Bang, proof that one of the writers is a Doper. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/9 "2010-01-22T03:35:16Z")
I wouldn’t vote for those two if they did a weekly lesbian session live from the Lincoln Bedroom. I’d watch it online, sure. But vote?! Never. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/10 "2010-01-22T03:36:51Z")
I’m starting to question **Gfactor’s** decision to move this to GD… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/11 "2010-01-22T04:05:49Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I’m starting to question **Gfactor’s** decision to move this to GD… 😃 So am I. 😉 If we must treat this seriously, I’d say I don’t see it as a balanced ticket: the two of them appeal to the same constituency, and Bachmann’s only been in Congress since 2007, so she wouldn’t do for Palin what Biden did for Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/12 "2010-01-22T05:01:09Z")
On the one hand, it would be fun for a little bit. On the stronger other hand, however, I am tired of being embarrassed about my country’s political races. I wish the Republicans would pull their heads out of their asses and run non-wackos with higher-than-usual I.Q.s, because I wouldn’t mind, _just once_, thinking that the choice is between two worthy candidates. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/13 "2010-01-22T07:40:56Z")
Actually, I’d like to see much more of Palin and I’m sure most guys would too. Albeit in Playboy, not the Whitehouse. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/14 "2010-01-22T07:45:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I wish the Republicans would pull their heads out of their asses and run non-wackos with higher-than-usual I.Q.s, because I wouldn’t mind, _just once_, thinking that the choice is between two worthy candidates. Yeah, but why would the Republicans nominate a Democrat? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/15 "2010-01-22T07:52:30Z")
Man, you don’t dare haul a striaght line like that out in front of this crowd. Some of these people are crude! ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/16 "2010-01-22T09:24:52Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > No, let it be _serious_! They really would be my dream ticket to face. Before the MA election I would’ve agreed with you. But I think there is a serious risk Palin could win because she is ‘not the incumbent’. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/17 "2010-01-22T10:00:25Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Before the MA election I would’ve agreed with you. But I think there is a serious risk Palin could win because she is ‘not the incumbent’. Yeah I think we’ve been burnt enough times with dealing with stupid republican idea’s. Saying something something the Republicans do is so ridiculous it could never happen is a bad idea. They prove time and time again if they float rediculous notions long enough anything can happen. Might not be true if the Democrats were capable of fighting misinformation. But well the Democrats don’t seem very good at fighting stupid notions. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2010, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/18 "2010-01-22T10:12:25Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > I wouldn’t vote for those two if they did a weekly lesbian session live from the Lincoln Bedroom. > > I’d watch it online, sure. But vote?! Never. If you can get a weekly lesbian session from the Lincoln bedroom on a ballot, I would vote for it. What if that was one of their campaign promises? OMG… can’t…stop… from… voting… for… them. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/19 "2010-01-22T14:27:12Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Actually, I’d like to see much more of Palin and I’m sure most guys would too. Albeit in Playboy, not the Whitehouse. Meh. I’d **go** with Sarah Palin . . . but I’d be thinking of Tina Fey. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928/20 "2010-01-22T14:40:34Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > On the one hand, it would be fun for a little bit. > On the stronger other hand, however, I am tired of being embarrassed about my country’s political races. I wish the Republicans would pull their heads out of their asses and run non-wackos with higher-than-usual I.Q.s, because I wouldn’t mind, _just once_, thinking that the choice is between two worthy candidates. This has to be a Byzantine scheme by Newt Gingrich to sweep the country in a landslide when he wins the nomination. Only problem is, he isn’t conservative enough for the Republican base. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-bachmann-12/525928.md?page=2)