# Palin's vigilantes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 31, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417 "2010-03-31T02:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/1 "2010-03-31T02:40:01Z")
Sarah Palin is now advising Tea-Partiers to [“stop”](http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/palin-advises-tea-partiers-stop-cars-with-obama-bumper-stickers.php) cars that have Obama bumper stickers. I’m wondering if she’ll be criminally responsible when someone is run off the road and shot. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/2 "2010-03-31T02:43:31Z")
Actually, she suggests stopping the driver, not the car. Which could lead to moronic confrontations in parking lots, but doesn’t quite have the ring of Palin-goons running cars off the road. She’s an idiot, but what else is new? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/3 "2010-03-31T02:59:16Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Actually, she suggests stopping the driver, not the car. How does one stop the driver without stopping the car being driven? I guess one could stalk the driver. But anyway, if we’re going to be allowed to do either to the drivers of cars that carry a slogan with which we do not agree, boy . . . have I got a little list. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/4 "2010-03-31T03:07:38Z")
For the love of all things decent, can no one get this woman home long enough to arrange a hunting accident? ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/5 "2010-03-31T03:10:12Z")
She really is trying to get people killed, isn’t she? ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/6 "2010-03-31T03:10:41Z")
How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for me? Pretty damn well, you dumb bitch. > **['So how's that hopey, changey thing workin' out for ya?'](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/3/30/852426/-So-hows-that-hopey,-changey-thing-workin-out-for-ya)** > > Sarah Palin recently had this to say... > > "That bumper sticker that maybe you'll see on the next Subaru driving by -- an Obama bumper sticker -- you should stop the driver and say, 'So how's that ... ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/7 "2010-03-31T03:20:30Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > She really is trying to get people killed, isn’t she? Yes. And don’t forget - we’re the ones who are the problem, for being concerned about it. I’m sure a Republican apologist will be along any minute to tell us how we’re overreacting. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/8 "2010-03-31T03:23:00Z")
No, see, she’s only advocating stopping Subarus. [QUOTE=looney dipshit] Or that bumper sticker you see on the next Subaru driving by, an Obama bumper sticker. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=looney dipshit] You should stop the driver and say, “So how is that hopey, changey thing working out for you?” [/QUOTE] I’d say, that hopey, changey thing is working out quite well for me, thanks for asking. Edit to add, **Frostillicus** beat me to it, and with a great link! Too bad I don’t have a car. I’m almost pining to get one and plaster it with Obama stickers. Not that I’d have to worry in Chicago. Most of the teabaggers seem to be out in the burbs and downstate. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/9 "2010-03-31T03:29:09Z")
Sarah honey go tend to your out of wedlock grandson, your poorly raised eldest daughter and your son with Down Syndrome. They need you. We don’t. Please leave the governing to those of us who are functional adults. The half of the population that shares a gender with you is sick of watching you make all adult women everywhere look like morons. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/10 "2010-03-31T03:40:56Z")
Just remember Sarah honey, we got guns too. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/11 "2010-03-31T03:48:19Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Sarah honey go tend to your out of wedlock grandson, your poorly raised eldest daughter and your son with Down Syndrome. They need you. We don’t. The longer we keep her distracted, the better off they probably are. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/12 "2010-03-31T03:50:58Z")
“Hey, I’ve just been harangued by some random lunatic in the Kroger parking lot. I think I’ll vote Republican next time!” Yeah, I see that working a treat. Meanwhile, _I_ drive a Subaru, dammit. I’m gonna plaster the thing with an Obama bumper sticker, and a Jesus Fish, and a Nine Inch Nails window decal, and one of those magnetic yellow ribbons, and confuse the hell out of all y’all. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/13 "2010-03-31T03:59:00Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > The longer we keep her distracted, the better off they probably are. But why should the rest of us have to suffer on their behalf? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/14 "2010-03-31T03:59:27Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Just remember Sarah honey, we got guns too. We do? I’ll bet they have ten or twenty times the number of guns we have. Not that I ever thought I’d live long enough to consider that a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/15 "2010-03-31T04:05:56Z")
> [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](#): > > We do? I’ll bet they have ten or twenty times the number of guns we have. You haven’t been to my house. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/16 "2010-03-31T04:07:51Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Sarah Palin is now advising Tea-Partiers to [“stop”](http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/palin-advises-tea-partiers-stop-cars-with-obama-bumper-stickers.php) cars that have Obama bumper stickers. I’m wondering if she’ll be criminally responsible when someone is run off the road and shot. Please put me up to date with the Great Opportunist act, is she now trying to position herself as a leading figure of the Tea Party? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/17 "2010-03-31T04:21:40Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Please put me up to date with the Great Opportunist act, is she now trying to position herself as a leading figure of the Tea Party? NOW? Lemme guess, you’re new here in Oakwood Estates, ain’tcha? FTR, the Teabaggers had a national convention last month (or maybe “symposium” is a better term, since they don’t really want to be considered a political party _per se_), and one of the aspects of it that was controversial even among 'Baggers was that the charge for attending was so steep, presumably to pay for Mrs. Palin’s appearance fee. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/18 "2010-03-31T04:22:52Z")
Is the Subaru poltically relevent to something? Don’t know a Subaru from a Suburban, so I may need a clue here. I thought it was supposed to be Volvos? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/19 "2010-03-31T04:27:13Z")
> **[At the Tea Party | Jonathan Raban](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/03/25/at-the-tea-party/)** > > I went to Nashville not as an accredited reporter but as a recently joined member of Tea Party Nation. (I had my own quarrels with big government, especially on the matter of mass surveillance, warrantless wiretapping, and the rest, and I counted on... Of interest, Johnathan Raban’s article in \*New York Review of Books \*on the “tea party” gathering. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/20 "2010-03-31T04:29:13Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > You haven’t been to my house. Well, thanks for the invite, mighty neighborly of you! What’s for dinner? 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417.md?page=2)