# Palin says she has "Fire In the Belly." Is it just gas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614 "2011-05-20T20:07:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Recovering\_Republican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Recovering\_Republican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recovering_Republican)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/321 "2011-07-07T23:09:57Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > Please continue the discussion there. Not wasting my time. I’ll talk to you if you stay on topic on the subject. Otherwise I’ll ignore you. ---
**Author:** ![Recovering\_Republican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Recovering\_Republican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recovering_Republican)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/322 "2011-07-07T23:11:58Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > So have you abandoned tax cuts? **B** ecause they have never created jobs without growing the deficit. Never was a big fan of them. But I think before we go back to Mr. and Mrs. America and ask them to fork over food to feed their kids- again- we need to get all the waste, BS and inefficiency out of government. I think the Bush tax cuts ought to be allowed to expire. I’ve said that more than a few times. But doing what every business and family has had to do- cut back on expenses- that has to happen, too. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/323 "2011-07-08T00:43:42Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Quoth **Typo Knig** :No, you’re thinking of that other thread in this forum that got hijacked. This one is about that guy from Monty Python. Sorry, my brain was addled from being in the same ZIP Code as some Ritalin. ---
**Author:** ![galveston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@galveston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galveston)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/324 "2011-07-11T20:04:56Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Is anyone else hoping she gets the nomination? Because it really seems that she should be unelectable. She’s just so… vacuous. There’s nothing to her. Has she ever brought up any actual campaign points? She’s purely figurehead. Can something like that be elected? > > …Well, this is the states we’re talking about. She accomplished more for Alaska in a short term than most of its governors did in full terms. Think record, record, record, and take a deep breath.😃 ---
**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:** [July 11, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/325 "2011-07-11T20:27:25Z")
> [@galveston](#): > > Think record, record, record, and take a deep breath.😃 DVR’ing _Jersey Shore_ doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/326 "2011-07-12T03:38:17Z")
The idea that someone so often wrong but never in doubt could even be considered presidential timber gives me serious concerns for our republic. Particularly after the recent example of Dubya. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/327 "2011-07-12T03:45:58Z")
> [@galveston](#): > > She accomplished more for Alaska in a short term than most of its governors did in full terms. Think record, record, record, and take a deep breath.😃 Too late. It was [already canceled](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin's_Alaska). ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/328 "2011-07-12T12:21:32Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Too late. It was [already canceled](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin's_Alaska). Which, clearly, makes it the best show ever. Clearly they accomplished all they’d intended to. Why stick around? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/329 "2011-07-12T12:40:09Z")
> [@Recovering\_Republican](#): > > But the left seems to want to be wedded to its own fanaticism. If Public Education doesn’t work, throw more money at it. Cite that public education doesn’t work? > [@](#): > > And if you’ve doubled the amount of money spent since 1994 and you are still getting the same awful results, don’t dare question what we are doing. Cite that the U.S. is spending twice as much money on public education as it was in 1994? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/330 "2011-07-12T12:43:40Z")
> [@Recovering\_Republican](#): > > Never was a big fan of them. But I think before we go back to Mr. and Mrs. America and ask them to fork over food to feed their kids- again- we need to get all the waste, BS and inefficiency out of government. > > I think the Bush tax cuts ought to be allowed to expire. I’ve said that more than a few times. So which is it - taxes should go up, or not? And a cite, please, concerning the amount of “waste, BS and inefficiency” in government. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/331 "2011-07-12T12:59:32Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Cite that public education doesn’t work? > > Cite that the U.S. is spending twice as much money on public education as it was in 1994? [He doesn’t do cites](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13985294&postcount=84): > [@Fixing Education](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-education/587669/84): > > I don’'t do cites. You guys pretend you didn’t see them when I do, so why make the effort? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/332 "2011-07-15T17:29:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [He doesn’t do cites](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13985294&postcount=84): Since he totally ignores all cites that are given to him that prove him wrong, i can see why he does not do cites. Makes perfect sense. Cites, we don’t need no stinking cites. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/333 "2011-07-15T19:34:15Z")
Palin’s movie: is anyone watching it? [Apparently not.](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/sarah-palin-movie-debuts-to-empty-theater-in-orange-county/241983/) (Big surprise, huh? :)) ---
**Author:** ![Profound\_Gibberish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Profound\_Gibberish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profound_Gibberish)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/334 "2011-07-15T21:54:19Z")
I heard (in my mind) that the plan is to project the movie onto the side of her One Nation Tour Bus all across the country. This will start someday. . . .sometime. . . . somewhere. But don’t ask for specifics or you are just part of the lamestream media conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Recovering\_Republican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Recovering\_Republican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recovering_Republican)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/335 "2011-07-16T10:48:30Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Since he totally ignores all cites that are given to him that prove him wrong, i can see why he does not do cites. Makes perfect sense. > Cites, we don’t need no stinking cites. Well, given where your cites come from, yeah, they can be ignored. I did a cite back on the education thing about how education has failed. Several of them. and when I was told it was off topic, I put it on it’s own thread in great debates, and got the embarassing spectacle of you guys claiming that it was great that pedophile teachers were making six figures for doing no work because the teacher unions made him impossible to fire. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/336 "2011-07-16T11:29:29Z")
> [@Recovering\_Republican](#): > > I did a cite back on the education thing about how education has failed. Several of them. and when I was told it was off topic, I put it on it’s own thread in great debates, and got the embarassing spectacle of you guys claiming that it was great that pedophile teachers were making six figures for doing no work because the teacher unions made him impossible to fire. That’s because you literally had **a** cite - a single thirteen year old incident involving one teacher. And while nobody except the voices in your head said it was great, the rest of us didn’t see how that one teacher justified overturning the entire national education system. ---
**Author:** ![Recovering\_Republican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Recovering\_Republican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recovering_Republican)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/337 "2011-07-16T13:08:54Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That’s because you literally had **a** cite - a single thirteen year old incident involving one teacher. And while nobody except the voices in your head said it was great, the rest of us didn’t see how that one teacher justified overturning the entire national education system. Well, no, I realize that how you’d need to characterize it, but uh, no. Come on, admit the system is broken. Or maybe that’s the idea. I mean, as long as you keep graduating morons who vote for Democrats because they are incapable of fending for themselves, the more you guys create a need for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/338 "2011-07-16T19:22:39Z")
Whose cause do you think you’re helping here? :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614.md?page=16)