# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/41 "2011-05-24T17:32:27Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I really hope she runs. She’d bring the most sheer entertainment value to the race since H. Ross Perot. > > But her actual electability is pretty close to zero. Perot had some interesting ideas. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/42 "2011-05-24T17:34:17Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Perot had some interesting ideas. He had interesting ears too. And your point? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/43 "2011-05-24T17:47:02Z")
I’m working on parsing what “interesting” means to **gonzomax**. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/44 "2011-05-24T23:28:23Z")
Seriously, give Perot credit for rubbing both “real” parties’ noses, and the voters’, in the deficit problem that neither was addressing. Without his pressure, and the resulting proof that the people really did want the problem addressed, I doubt you’d have seen Clinton put eliminating it nearly as high on his list. Which is all a far different thing from saying there was much feeling among the voters that Perot himself should have been the one to do it. And it’s even farther from saying Palin similarly has a serious, or even coherent, agenda item, even as an “outsider”, to push forward. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/45 "2011-05-25T14:08:00Z")
Grab your Popcorn–the new Palin movie is coming! [http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/25/palin-movie-coming-to-theaters-this-summer/](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/25/palin-movie-coming-to-theaters-this-summer/) ---
**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:** [May 25, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/46 "2011-05-25T14:46:28Z")
The upcoming Sarah Palin movie is called _The Undefeated_? Does Palin think she’s the Vice President? Has she noticed that John McCain isn’t hanging out with her anymore? Or that Barack Obama is on the news all the time? Okay, scratch that last one. I’m pretty sure Palin doesn’t know what’s on the news. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/47 "2011-05-25T14:59:47Z")
> [@dbx820](#): > > Grab your Popcorn–the new Palin movie is coming! > > [http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/25/palin-movie-coming-to-theaters-this-summer/](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/25/palin-movie-coming-to-theaters-this-summer/) Stephen K. Bannon, the guy responsible for the movie, [sounds like a wingnut version of Leni Riefenstahl](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052442/). And calling it _The Undefeated_ - that’s pretty cheeky, re-using the title of a [John Wayne movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065150/). I’m putting my money on “so bad, it makes _Atlas Shrugged_ look good.” ---
**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:** [May 25, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/48 "2011-05-25T15:27:02Z")
Atlas cried. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/49 "2011-05-25T15:37:06Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > See, I misunderstood. I thought the higher your Gingrich rating, the _less_ chance you had of succeeding. If it made sense, it wouldn’t be the Gingrich Scale. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/50 "2011-05-25T16:41:28Z")
Maybe that can be her campaign slogan, “I was never defeated. I just quit.” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/51 "2011-05-26T01:19:04Z")
From [Balloon Juice](http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/05/25/so-much-awesome-in-one-place/), a bunch of alternative titles for Palin’s flick: > [@](#): > > From Here to Inanity > Citizen Vain > Red Yawn > The Aleutianist > The Scum Also Rises > Lost in Translation II > We’re Just Not That Into You > Chariots of Liar > Also Too: Electric Boogaloo > Brainspotting > Mentl > From Within Sight of Russia With Love > Not-Hur > The Devil Wears Mukluks > Swindler’s List > Juneau II: Post Partum > Mooseferatu > Dopey’s Choice > John McCain’s a Series of Unfortunate Events > The Lyin’, the Witch, and the Wardrobe > Driving Miss Crazy > Grizzly Madams > Inarticulate Proposal > Mother, Uggs and Greed > Despicable Her > Chariots of Bile > Jackass 4 > Brain Simple > The Lying Game > The Woman Who Knew Too Little > True Grift > Clueless > Fahrenheit All of Them > They Call Me Sister Fibs > The Incredible Sulk > The Iquitarod > The Big Shill > 12 Million Angry White Men > Legends of the Fail > Something Wicked This Way Comes ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/52 "2011-05-26T18:55:54Z")
It seems there is a chance that the Cunt from Wasilla may run for president, after all. This is a quote from the Drudgereport: > [@](#): > > Sarah Palin will hit the road this Memorial Day weekend on a tour of the Northeast – with a stop in New Hampshire – aboard a red, white and blue bus emblazoned with the words: "One Nation Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty & Justice For All ." There’s also a \*Washington Examiner \* that claims she is currently the second choice for the Republicans. [http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/05/poll-palin-near-top-re-shaped-gop-field](http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/05/poll-palin-near-top-re-shaped-gop-field) Looks like the GOP is hell-bent on committing political suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/53 "2011-05-26T19:29:23Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#): > > Looks like the GOP is hell-bent on committing political suicide. That’s fine with me. At this point, they deserve no less. ---
**Author:** ![Linear\_Crack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Linear\_Crack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linear_Crack)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/54 "2011-05-26T19:46:29Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#): > > It seems there is a chance that the Cunt from Wasilla may run for president, after all. Well, anything is better than the Cocksucker from Kenya. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [May 26, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/55 "2011-05-26T20:21:03Z")
> [@Linear\_Crack](#): > > Well, anything is better than the Cocksucker from Kenya. :rolleyes: And that would be Mercedes N’gatal’uuu’taa who starred in such classics as, “Haley’s Sal-Assey”, “Blowing for Rice”, and “Behind the Green Tent Flap.” Classics, one and all. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/56 "2011-05-26T22:49:46Z")
Is this a great country or what? That we can even be having this discussion is remarkable. Truly, anyone can grow up and think they can run for President, and be taken seriously by some segment of the population. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/57 "2011-05-27T02:08:49Z")
Palin is the best candidate the Republicans could offer. She is bright, heavily experienced and shows great diplomacy. She is dignified . When she quit as Governor ,it was not her fault. The press was not nice to her. Palin would be great at running the economy. She has a deep understanding of it and would be just peachy. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/58 "2011-05-27T03:23:55Z")
If Palin enters, it’ll be damn hard for anyone but her and Romney to get any media attention. If that’s the case, I strongly predict that either she or Romney will end up the nominee. Romney will have to campaign pretty far to the right to get the nomination, which is probably bad for everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Whoo69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Whoo69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whoo69)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/59 "2011-05-27T07:14:10Z")
This woman’s trying to have it both ways: She ‘hates’ the media (or at least the “lamestream media”) but loves all the attention! _Why else_ would she say so many ridiculous things?? Surely a person who was governor of Alaska knew what the hell a blood libel was _before_ we explained it to her? I’m not religious at all (have no Jewish relatives, either), and even I know wtf a blood libel is. And now she’s coming out with some really absurd documentary or movie about her life? Oh, god… Shoot me now Ironically, it’s entitled _Undefeated_. _Undefeated_, about a woman who was defeated in 2008 _and_ quit her job halfway through! Undefeated at _what_, Wasilla beauty pageants? She certainly was ‘defeated’ by 5 colleges before finally graduating at her 6th. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/60 "2011-05-27T13:15:07Z")
> [@Whoo69](#): > > This woman’s trying to have it both ways: She ‘hates’ the media (or at least the “lamestream media”) but loves all the attention! _Why else_ would she say so many ridiculous things?? Surely a person who was governor of Alaska knew what the hell a blood libel was _before_ we explained it to her? I’m not religious at all (have no Jewish relatives, either), and even I know wtf a blood libel is. I didn’t. Then again, I also didn’t try using it in an attack on someone, either… You…you…masticating thespian! -Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614.md?page=4)