# Sarah K. Palin, Will You Please Go Now? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 22, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531 "2009-11-22T16:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/121 "2009-11-24T19:19:24Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Nah, she’s been snubbing fans at book signings. She’s acting like a straight celebrity. Maybe a tour with Britney? ---
**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:** [November 24, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/122 "2009-11-24T19:50:07Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > The demographics of the country are rapidly shifting. If the 2000 election were rerun today, GWB would lose decisively. It doesn’t matter how aggressively the Republicans mobilize their base, they don’t have the votes to win without pulling heavily from the center. And if they run a polarizing figure like Palin, they’ll never get enough votes from the center. 2004 called, it wants it’s argument back. Not that I disagree with you. I’m just sayin’… ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/123 "2009-11-24T20:10:24Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > Liberals are scared of Palin for the same reasons that Br’er Rabbit was scared of the briar patch. 😛 Of course he was scared, all those thorns and, well, briars. A rabbit could really get hurt in there! 😉 Politics, clearly, is Palin’s tar baby. :eek: CMC fnord! It won’t help **LeeshaJoy** , he still ain’t gonna get it. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/124 "2009-11-24T20:34:37Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Nah, she’s been snubbing fans at book signings. She’s acting like a straight celebrity. Holding the office of the Presidency sounds like too much work for Ms. Palin. I think she’s just playing and soaking up the money and adulation. I know of an incident in which she was booed because she did not sign books that she said she would. But they were upset because they like her and she did not do what she promised. But those people are still in her camp as far as politics is concerned. She is definitely after the cash. Walking away from the governorship is mind boggling for a politician to do. How can her fans justify that? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/125 "2009-11-24T21:05:17Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I know of an incident in which she was booed because she did not sign books that she said she would. But they were upset because they like her and she did not do what she promised. But those people are still in her camp as far as politics is concerned. She is definitely after the cash. Walking away from the governorship is mind boggling for a politician to do. How can her fans justify that? Because she’s no longer a politician…she’s a LEADER! Which is why she stopped politicianing, dontcha know? Politics gets in the way of leading. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/126 "2009-11-24T21:40:10Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Walking away from the governorship is mind boggling for a politician to do. How can her fans justify that? Cause that’s what a rouge maveriky person would do, doncha know. (wink) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/127 "2009-11-24T22:12:28Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I know of an incident in which she was booed because she did not sign books that she said she would. But they were upset because they like her and she did not do what she promised. But those people are still in her camp as far as politics is concerned. She is definitely after the cash. Walking away from the governorship is mind boggling for a politician to do. How can her fans justify that? I don’t know. They admire her ‘guerilla politics’. Fucking _savvy posturing_ they mean. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/128 "2009-11-24T22:36:23Z")
> [@](#): > > You’re saying that Clothahump has a shot at the big time, then? At least there’s a good chance he would be saying what he chooses, and not what his Keepers tell him to say. AND, he probably wouldn’t get it so garbled that a William Shatner parody interpretation makes more sense. It’s sad when a person takes your words to ridicule you, and makes more sense than you did. > [@](#): > > I’d like to hear your opinion. Do you think we’re all so terrified because she has a set of values and tries to live by them? Because she’s open and outspoken? What else could it possibly be? These days, I have to question this “values thing”. I propose that most of it is just a way of pandering to the Flavor Of The Month, so to speak. I think it’s just the “usual suspects”, including her, parroting what they think the “commoners” want to hear. Anyway, she quit being a governor, what makes people think she wouldn’t bail on the presidency too? Even if she got it and didn’t quit, I believe she would b horribly incompetent. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/129 "2009-11-24T22:49:56Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > These days, I have to question this “values thing”. I propose that most of it is just a way of pandering to the Flavor Of The Month, so to speak. I think it’s just the “usual suspects”, including her, parroting what they think the “commoners” want to hear. > > Anyway, she quit being a governor, what makes people think she wouldn’t bail on the presidency too? Even if she got it and didn’t quit, I believe she would b horribly incompetent. But what you don’t understand is that there’s no Commoners here in America, there’s just Americans. And Americans are patriots. And there’s nothing in the world a group of patriots can’t accomplish if they put their minds and hearts and souls into it. And that’s why America is the greatest planet on Earth. See, when Joe the Plumber and Sally the Schoolteacher want to make America even better they can do it! All they need to vote for me! I’m a patriot too. I’m so American, it’s like a baseball had a litter of patriots with an apple pie! Damn. Forgot to work Saint Ronald in there. Ah well. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/130 "2009-11-24T22:58:01Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > But what you don’t understand is that there’s no Commoners here in America, there’s just Americans. And Americans are patriots. And there’s nothing in the world a group of patriots can’t accomplish if they put their minds and hearts and souls into it. And that’s why America is the greatest planet on Earth. See, when Joe the Plumber and Sally the Schoolteacher want to make America even better they can do it! All they need to vote for me! I’m a patriot too. I’m so American, it’s like a baseball had a litter of patriots with an apple pie! > > Damn. Forgot to work Saint Ronald in there. Ah well. > > -Joe And north to the future! And puppies! And Randolph Scott [singing voices] Randolph Scoooottttttt ---
**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:** [November 25, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/131 "2009-11-25T03:43:20Z")
I’m afraid of Sarah Palin. She’s an shapeshifting demon from the planet GAW#%#TR. _They eat babies._ ---
**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:** [November 25, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/132 "2009-11-25T04:20:32Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m afraid of Sarah Palin. She’s an shapeshifting demon from the planet GAW#%#TR. _They eat babies._ Well, good. The planet’s overpopulated anyway. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/133 "2009-11-25T10:58:23Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You can’t give blow jobs with your mouth shut. That’s the only kind I’d want from her----one she couldn’t perform. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/134 "2009-11-25T11:16:15Z")
On her book tour here in Florida, she spent a lot of time hanging out in various retirement communities, where the residents stood in line all night and trumpeted her praises. Depending on your point of view, there are a bunch of aging patriots in Florida, or else there are a bunch of Alzheimer patients still running around loose. And, of course, a few aging ex-hippies. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Happy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Mr\_Happy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Happy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/135 "2009-11-25T12:52:54Z")
Sarah Palin is a dopey cunt with more tits than IQ points. Any moron that asks “Why are you so scared of her?” can’t honestly be thinking “I know why, it’s because she’s gonne getcha!”. You can all say “It worries me that so many Americans would vote for her” but I’m still worried that so many of you Americans are still talking about her. Sure them voting for her is worse, but you guys talking about her gives them a reason to vote for her. Prove she’s not worth your time, don’t waste time on her! (Although in saying that, this Aussie would love to see her run just because I’d like some more stuff from Tina Fey!) ---
**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:** [November 25, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/136 "2009-11-25T13:13:41Z")
I’ll give her $5 for gas. In fact, if we all chip in we can get her back to Wasilla. > [@Mr Happy](#): > > …I’m still worried that so many of you Americans are still talking about her. We’re just trying to save you embarassment over recent Australian prime ministers, including those who attend strip clubs “by mistake”. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/137 "2009-11-25T14:36:57Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I’ll give her $5 for gas. > > In fact, if we all chip in we can get her back to Wasilla.We’re just trying to save you embarassment over recent Australian prime ministers, including those who attend strip clubs “by mistake”. Even Wasilla doesn’t deserve her. For just a little more we can send her to Russia. Hell, she can see it from her front porch – maybe she can make it the rest of the way by a moose ride. How different can that be from riding Todd? ---
**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:** [November 25, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/138 "2009-11-25T14:43:48Z")
> [@Mr\_Happy](#): > > …(Although in saying that, this Aussie would love to see her run just because I’d like some more stuff from Tina Fey!) Hands off, Jacko! I got dibs on Tina Fey’s stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/139 "2009-11-25T17:22:07Z")
What scares me about Sarah Palin? [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk&feature=player_embedded) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Happy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Mr\_Happy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Happy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531/140 "2009-11-26T03:51:10Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I’ll give her $5 for gas. > > In fact, if we all chip in we can get her back to Wasilla.We’re just trying to save you embarassment over recent Australian prime ministers, including those who attend strip clubs “by mistake”. Yikes, someone’s a little touchy. I wasn’t trying to start anything, just noting that if the left stopped talking about her altogether, she’d eventually just go away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-k-palin-will-you-please-go-now/518531.md?page=8)