# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/161 "2011-06-22T21:23:17Z")
[http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/sarah-palin-reportedly-quits-bus-tour-halfway-through.php?ref=fpblg?quitter](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/sarah-palin-reportedly-quits-bus-tour-halfway-through.php?ref=fpblg?quitter) ---
**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:** [June 22, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/162 "2011-06-22T21:34:16Z")
I’m guessing there was a shiny object in Alaska. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/163 "2011-06-22T21:48:24Z")
\*Newsflash: \*Palin renames cross country tour, now the **Iquitterod Trail.** ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/164 "2011-06-22T23:07:57Z")
[TPM says Palin just sent out an update seeming to deny that she quit:](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/sarah-palin-reportedly-quits-bus-tour-halfway-through.php?ref=fpblg?quitter) (scroll down) > [@](#): > > Late Update: Palin denied Wednesday that she had quit the tour, re-tweeting a link to a Fox News write-up of the report: "SarahPalinUSA I did? Hmm, glad I have media to let me know my plans. They never cease to amaze MT “@foxheadlines Palin Ends Bus Tour [http://fxn.ws/ip0mgb](http://fxn.ws/ip0mgb)” I thought that line about calling her _The Undefeated_ was a joke - but her PAC (whatever that’s supposed to be) is handing out copies so she must agree with that portrayal of herself. Ick. Sarah Palin: Often in error but never in doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/165 "2011-06-22T23:16:54Z")
The truth is, the sooner people stop paying attention to that dingbat, the better. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/166 "2011-06-22T23:20:54Z")
I don’t actually see a denial in there. Is she back in Alaska or isn’t she? Is the bus still going or isn’t it? This reflexive attacking of the media for simply accurately reporting what she says and does becomes more tiresome every day. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/167 "2011-06-22T23:26:52Z")
I noted somewhere recently that both Sarah and Bristol have trademarked (copyrighted?) their likenesses, names, etc. The marketing blitz must not be far behind: get your Sarah bobblehead dolls with your next Happy Meal! ---
**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:** [June 22, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/168 "2011-06-22T23:33:53Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > The truth is, the sooner people stop paying attention to that dingbat, the better. If we stop, she might not get nominated. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/169 "2011-06-23T01:48:39Z")
The news article I read said that her tour was ‘on hiatus’ because she was back in Alaska. Is this stuff about her quitting coming from her? Did she say she was quitting and is now backtracking? Or was the ‘she’s quitting’ meme the result of someone seeing her head to Alaska and spinning it in the worst way possible? It’s not unreasonable or unheard of for someone on a national tour to take a short break and head home for whatever reason. Lots of people do that. Maybe a relative is ill, or she had an engagement in Alaska, or even her kids were exhausted and wanted to get home to see their friends, so they’re take a one-week break or something. … Okay, I tracked down the source article at RealClearPolitics, and it says absolutely nothing about her quitting. It says that her tour is ‘on hiatus’ because she went back to Alaska, but provides no specific information from anyone in Palin’s camp. In fact, the article speculates that this just may be the result of that movie coming out, and she may have gone back to Alaska to help promote it, or that she may be simply avoiding raining on some politician’s parade (probably Rick Perry) by showing up in Iowa or New Hampshire while he’s announcing his candidacy. So unless we hear from Palin that she’s actually quitting the tour, this appears to be another case where a non-story was blown out of proportion in an attempt to smear Palin, and then liberals like you guys swallowing the hook and running with it. I swear, you guys are secret Palin agents or something. You keep making people who don’t want to defend her have to defend her. Hey by the way Dio, where’s that dirt that you swore up and down would be found in her E-mails? The media is _awfully_ quiet about those now, aren’t they? As it turns out, yet another lame attempt to attack her has turned in her favor and garnered her even more sympathy. The left is like the gang who couldn’t shoot straight when it comes to her. How many other governors do you think could have 24,000 of their E-mails poured over by their enemies without giving up at least some amount of ammunition to them? For a Governor inundated with non-stop ethics charges after she ran for VP, her E-mail record seems awfully clean, wouldn’t you say? By the way, how many of those ethics charges have gone past an initial hearing to see if there was anything to them? Are any of them still pending? ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/170 "2011-06-23T02:00:06Z")
Palin just posted on Facebook saying she had to go back to Alaska because she’s been called for jury duty\*. And of course, Alaska, sitting up there next to Russia and Canada, doesn’t have fax machines or phone lines so she couldn’t get herself excused. She couldn’t mail the form back because it would have taken forever what with the dog sleds and all. Anyway, here’s her post, [http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note\_id=10150214727228435](http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150214727228435) And an article about the whole kerfluffle, with various and diverse links and quotes and 8x10 color glossy pictures, at Huffpo - [Sarah Palin: Reports Of Bus Tour 'Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated' | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/22/sarah-palin-bus-tour_n_882678.html) > [@](#): > > As I said myself at the end of the east coast leg of the tour, the summer is long, and I’m looking forward to hitting the open road again. The coming weeks are tight because civic duty calls (like most everyone else, even former governors get called up for jury duty) and I look forward to doing my part just like every other Alaskan. > > I wouldn’t think it to be such a slow news day that, what with numerous wars and serious economic woes concerning Americans, a bus is driving news stories today. The next leg of the tour continues when the time comes. In the meantime, no one should jump to conclusions – certainly not the media with their long track record of getting things wrong or just making things up. Love that “when the time comes”. \*Can you imagine? Man that’d be almost as bad as looking over at the witness box and seeing Nancy Grace on your jury. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/171 "2011-06-23T02:23:22Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > So unless we hear from Palin that she’s actually quitting the tour, this appears to be another case where a non-story was blown out of proportion in an attempt to smear Palin, and then liberals like you guys swallowing the hook and running with it. Some of us don’t need to wait until Sarah Palin tells us what we’re supposed to think. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/172 "2011-06-23T02:27:03Z")
Either way, not much of a tour if you take two weeks off to jet home. Fucking Allman Brothers never jetted home in the middle of tour! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/173 "2011-06-23T02:28:58Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The news article I read said that her tour was ‘on hiatus’ because she was back in Alaska. If she’s back in Alaska, then the story is accurate. She quit. > [@](#): > > Hey by the way Dio, where’s that dirt that you swore up and down would be found in her E-mails? I never said there would be any dirt in her emails. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/174 "2011-06-23T02:59:46Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Either way, not much of a tour if you take two weeks off to jet home. Fucking Allman Brothers never jetted home in the middle of tour! They sure as hell don’t ride motorcycles. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/175 "2011-06-23T03:03:21Z")
The jury duty story is almost certainly a lie. You don’t have to immediately rush back for that. You get several weeks of advance warning, and where is she getting this “two weeks” from? She wouldn’t have to show up for several more weeks, and then when she did, it would take her five minutes to get out of it. She wouldn’t have been _seated_ on a jury yet, so she’s full of shit. No way her story’s true. She made it up entirely out of her asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/176 "2011-06-23T03:12:49Z")
nm - duplicate post ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/177 "2011-06-23T03:17:22Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The jury duty story is almost certainly a lie. You don’t have to immediately rush back for that. You get several weeks of advance warning, and where is she getting this “two weeks” from? She wouldn’t have to show up for several more weeks, and then when she did, it would take her five minutes to get out of it. She wouldn’t have been _seated_ on a jury yet, so she’s full of shit. No way her story’s true. She made it up entirely out of her asshole. I think she acts in implausible ways just to set traps. Not all of the goofey shit she pulls is ‘planned’, but enough to get by. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/178 "2011-06-23T03:47:52Z")
Of course, if she tried to get out of the jury duty, you guys would be whining that she thinks she’s better than everyone else, or that she wants everyone else to be patriotic but she puts her own desires ahead of her own civic duty. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/179 "2011-06-23T05:18:01Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Of course, if she tried to get out of the jury duty, you guys would be whining that she thinks she’s better than everyone else, or that she wants everyone else to be patriotic but she puts her own desires ahead of her own civic duty. Do you pull this shit in _every_ thread, Sam? Specifically, this speculating about what we libruls would say in some hypothetical situation, and criticizing those words you put in our mouths. I tell you what: why don’t you just stick with taking issue _with what we actually say_, rather than making shit up and taking issue with that. Or be a good boy and run along now. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/180 "2011-06-23T07:00:17Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Of course, if she tried to get out of the jury duty, you guys would be whining that she thinks she’s better than everyone else, or that she wants everyone else to be patriotic but she puts her own desires ahead of her own civic duty. What nonsense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614.md?page=10)