# 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:** 9
**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, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/161 "2009-07-07T21:20:01Z")
Hey, if she’d taught her daughter to do things out of the box, she wouldn’t be a grandmother already. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/162 "2009-07-07T21:27:12Z")
Magnum Staplegun is as batshit crazy as her boss. What a toady. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/163 "2009-07-07T21:58:48Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > The best part is she believes the “right path for the state” involves her not being in charge of it. Well? Isn’t that basically correct in all probability? ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/164 "2009-07-07T22:04:54Z")
Just a day or two before her Big Announcement, my right wing neighbor was extolling the virtues of Saint Sarah, whom all women want to be like (his words and most definitely _not_ mine.) He also mentioned that Saint Sarah never started anything that she did not finish. Well, a big, fat Nelson Muntz **HAW HAW** to you, Mr. Right-Winger! ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/165 "2009-07-08T01:04:07Z")
I just hope the next Doper who has a meltdown and quits the board in flames remembers to say in parting, “I’m a fighter, not a quitter.” ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/166 "2009-07-08T02:37:50Z")
What I particularly like is that she “doesn’t need a title to effect change for our state.” Well, gee, Sarah, don’t you think you might have realized that before asking all those people to give money and vote for you to get you that title? Before you collected two and a half years worth of salary and per diem for living in your own house, not to mention the expense of keeping you and your four/five kids nominally in the governor’s mansion all that time? The many times you comandeered jets after grandstanding the “sale” of the governor’s jet? If you didn’t feel that a “title” was a valuable aid to effecting your policies, just what the hell has all of this been about? Other than pure self-promotion, and money-making opportunities for Todd, that is. Oh, and petty power plays like Trooper-gate, of course. Obviously a title was very handy for those. ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/167 "2009-07-08T03:11:57Z")
I have the perfect running mate for Sarah; “Movin’ Mikey” Johanns, Senator from Nebraska. Mikey got re-elected Mayor of Lincoln, then promptly ran for Governor; got re-elected to that post, and bugged out to become GWB’s Ag Secretary; then bugged out of that to run for Senate in 2008. Mikey will be just about at his usual expiration date by 2012 and ready to make his next move. Mikey loves running for things and hates actually running things. The female equivalent of GWB won’t have to worry about a power-grabbing Cheney type with Mikey. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/168 "2009-07-08T05:37:46Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > The best part is she believes the “right path for the state” involves her not being in charge of it. I sure wish someone would teach the silly bint about extrapolation. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/169 "2009-07-08T09:41:14Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > \*“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! I’d say that the resignation of the over-inflated sloganeering barbie doll was EXACTLY the right course for her to take for the good of Alaska. Even better of course, would have not running for Governor in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/170 "2009-07-08T10:38:17Z")
Could we balance the budget if we sold Alaska to Canada? ---
**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 8, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/171 "2009-07-08T13:36:22Z")
Alaska has lots of oil. We should probably just keep it and sell Palin to Canada. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/172 "2009-07-08T13:36:51Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > …Any idea which ‘countless others’ she’s referring to who prematurely left their posts for a ‘higher calling’? … > [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Maybe she’s talking about cases like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton where someone leaves their current office to take another job in government. Of course, becoming President or Secretary of State is a little different than becoming Princess of the Universe in the freaky-deaky little psychodrama that’s running on a continuous loop inside your own head. > [@Rigamarole](#): > > The thought that immediately comes to mind is that she is talking about Obama, who left his Senate seat to become president. But the statement is obviously retarded, since he remained in his seat right up until he was actually _elected_ president. If she is not elected, which she won’t be, then what will she be? Just another unemployed douchebag. > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > Rahm Emmanuel. Hillary Clinton. Janet Napolitano. Kathleen Sebelius. Ray LaHood. Hilda Solis. … You’re all wrong. The correct answer is… JESUS! Sarah is feeling crucified. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/173 "2009-07-08T13:48:35Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Could we balance the budget if we sold Alaska to Canada? Well, we probably wouldn’t pay much. I mean, we already got a huge amount of snow-covered north in the cupboard, so it’s not like we desperately _need_ Alaska for anything. ---
**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 8, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/174 "2009-07-08T13:51:21Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Hey, if she’d taught her daughter to do things out of the box, she wouldn’t be a grandmother already. That’s awful! Awful entertaining! So I laughed at how she openly states her resignation is best for the state, and then: > [@Knorf](#): > > Well? Isn’t that basically correct in all probability? > [@tagos](#): > > I’d say that the resignation of the over-inflated sloganeering barbie doll was EXACTLY the right course for her to take for the good of Alaska. Well yes, of course, and it’s hilarious that she admits it. Somewhere buried in confusing basketball analogies, even more confusing explanations for why quitting is the new staying, and obligatory shout-outs to the troops, she basically said, “Ya know, everyone in AK would be better off if I stopped doing stuff.” Awesome, Sarah. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/175 "2009-07-08T13:55:48Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > Well, we probably wouldn’t pay much. I mean, we already got a huge amount of snow-covered north in the cupboard, so it’s not like we desperately _need_ Alaska for anything. Snow covered north is worth more if you collect the whole set. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/176 "2009-07-08T14:23:00Z")
In her beach interview with Adrea Mitchell yesterday, Palin once again stated that if she stayed in office, it would cost Alaskans “millions of dollars” in legal costs over the remainder of her term. Legal costs for what? All but one ethics complaint have been dismissed, so what would the millions be for? Answer: nothing. It’s all bullshit. I’m just disappointed that Mitchell didn’t ask the question, nor has anyone else, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/177 "2009-07-08T14:27:04Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Alaska has lots of oil. We should probably just keep it and sell Palin to Canada. What’s the going rate for incoherent rambling these days? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/178 "2009-07-08T14:37:26Z")
Keep your crazy. We’re fully stocked. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/179 "2009-07-08T14:44:39Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Snow covered north is worth more if you collect the whole set. I hear that they’re giving away Iceland free with a fill-up down at the service station. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-the-quitter/501939/180 "2009-07-08T14:48:59Z")
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