# Sarah the Quitter! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939 "2009-07-04T23:54:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/141 "2009-07-07T16:40:59Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > That’s not a cleverly-put-together parody news site, is it? Is that an actual ABC News story? Did I get whooshed? My favorite quote: “I think on a national level, your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw them out,” she said. What, no “you betcha!”? Looking at the spin she’s putting on this reaffirms what I said upthread: she’s going to play the not-a-politician card along with the darn-librul-media potatoes. All the way to the bank. ---
**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 7, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/142 "2009-07-07T16:41:16Z")
No panty day? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/143 "2009-07-07T16:44:01Z")
For all those confused by her basketball metaphor, this [diagram](http://deadspin.com/5308468/diagramming-sarah-palins-full+court-press-metaphor) should help. 😃 ---
**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 7, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/144 "2009-07-07T16:45:38Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > No panty day? I heard she goes commando under those chest waders. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/145 "2009-07-07T16:58:00Z")
Does anybody have a link to the Anderson Cooper interview with her spokesperson? There was an exchange that went something like this: M Stapleton: Why just today we received countless offers. Cooper: Which ones? Stapleton: More than you can imagine. Cooper: Name one. ---
**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 7, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/146 "2009-07-07T17:00:56Z")
Maybe she was talking about credit card preapprovals. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/147 "2009-07-07T17:06:50Z")
I saw that interview. AC kept saying “what kind of offers are you talking about? Like TV shows? What do you mean?” Palin’s yap dog wouldn’t really answer the question, she was saying stuff like “Oh—everything you can THINK of,” but wouldn’t cite a specific example. ---
**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 7, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/148 "2009-07-07T17:12:37Z")
Like the magazines and newspaper that Palin read during the campaign … just … ya know … all of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/149 "2009-07-07T17:13:23Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > You all go ahead and laugh it up while you can. When Our Lady of the Tundra is President, she will have [THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW](http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=8016906) take care of you!!! For great justice!! ---
**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:** [July 7, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/150 "2009-07-07T17:21:23Z")
[Here’s a link](http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/anderson-cooper-against-sarah-palins-insane-spokeswoman-meg-stapleton) to the Anderson Cooper/Meg Stapleton interview. Anderson doesn’t get the “point guard” analogy because “I don’t know anything about sports.” Andy and his code. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/151 "2009-07-07T17:38:00Z")
Truly, Sarah Palin may be the stupidest woman I have ever encountered. > **[Palin: Huntsman and Napolitano Quit, So Why Can’t I?](https://washingtonindependent.com/49854/palin-huntsman-and-napolitano-quit-so-why-cant-i)** > > Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) gets — surprise! — paranoid and angry about all the criticism she’s getting for leaving her job. The double standard that’s ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/152 "2009-07-07T17:39:47Z")
Tom Tomorrow weighs in: [http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/07/07/tomo/](http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/07/07/tomo/) ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/153 "2009-07-07T17:42:42Z")
Well, this confirms it. Ann Coulter has weighed in and claims that is was a brilliant move by Palin. By definition, this means of course that it was an incredibly boneheaded move. > **[Coulter Thinks Palin's Resignation Was A Brilliant Move: 'She Is Too Big For...](https://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/coulter-thinks-palins-resignation-wa)** > > I suspect Ann Coulter didn't really intend, appearing yesterday on Fox News with Marc Lamont Hill, to open a big wide window for everyone to see in br ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/154 "2009-07-07T20:24:38Z")
She didn’t know it would be “such a darn big deal.” She didn’t know that a governor resigning is a big deal? I’m speechless. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/155 "2009-07-07T20:31:16Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > Well, this confirms it. Ann Coulter has weighed in and claims that is was a brilliant move by Palin. By definition, this means of course that it was an incredibly boneheaded move. > > [Coulter Thinks Palin's Resignation Was A Brilliant Move: 'She Is Too Big For The Position Now' | Crooks and Liars](http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/coulter-thinks-palins-resignation-wa) +1 for Coulter making a reference to the Mongolian capital. I walked into my research team meeting this morning and told them that I was stepping down, but I wasn’t quitting. Just watched the Anderson Cooper interview with Meg Stapleton. That was surreal. ---
**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 7, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/156 "2009-07-07T20:39:56Z")
Anyone else think a Palin/Limbaugh deathmatch for the right to preside over the death of the GOP would draw a huge pay-per-view buyrate? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/157 "2009-07-07T20:41:37Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > She didn’t know it would be “such a darn big deal.” > > She didn’t know that a governor resigning is a big deal? I’m speechless. I daresay that’s because you’re politically astute. You’re also not part of her core audience. I’m not talking about the audience who would vote for her because they like her politics/apparent platform, but the audience who would pay to read her (now, don’t laugh) book or hear her speak because they like or relate to the persona, the down home winking political outsider who’s unfairly attacked by the librul media doncha know. The Joe-the-Plumber audience member who loves sloganeering and may be able to, but chooses not to be think too critically. I swear if no scandal breaks, this is all part of a continuation of victimhood (gotcha media, etc.) she’s played all along, all part of the mavericky goodness that she oozes, all part of the faux anti-establishment/anti-elitist marketing hype she’s been peddling. Sometime soon she’s going to say something along the lines of “just because I didn’t do what the mainstream media and Washington elite wanted me to do – resign on _their_ schedule, call _them_ to my press conference – they chose to attack me.” Doncha know. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/158 "2009-07-07T21:10:32Z")
\*“I’m not going to take the comfortable path. I’m going to take the right path for the state,” she said of her resignation, which she characterized as a matter of progressing in an unconventional way. “That caught people off guard. … It’s out of the box and unconventional. That’s what we are as Alaskans and certainly how I am as a public servant.”\* Ha ha ha! You’re killing me, Sarah. Stop it! ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/159 "2009-07-07T21:16:45Z")
> [@MeanOldLady quoting Sara Palin](#): > > “I’m not going to take the comfortable path. I’m going to take the right path for the state…” …moving forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, \*twirling \*towards freedom. (Given that it was Sarah, that should probably have been FREEDOM.) ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/160 "2009-07-07T21:18:09Z")
The best part is she believes the “right path for the state” involves her not being in charge of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939.md?page=9)