# Shed your tears for Sarah and Todd right here **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 10, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987 "2019-09-10T15:42:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/21 "2019-09-10T23:06:28Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I have no love for the Palin family, but as the child of a divorce, and as a divorcee about to take the plunge for the second time, I wouldn’t wish a divorce on anyone. Divorces suck. Yes, they do, but no one deserves suckage more than these two self-serving conniving assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/22 "2019-09-10T23:44:15Z")
Meh, who cares? Did they lecture people about how marriage is sacred, and you should never divorce? If not, what’s the big deal? It’s not like when her daughter was the spokeswoman for abstinance only education and ended up unmarried and pregnant. (for the SECOND time) ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/23 "2019-09-10T23:55:39Z")
It’s all fun and games until the first episode of the moose hunting themed reality dating show to find her new spouse. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/24 "2019-09-10T23:57:48Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Trig spends the vast majority of his time with one of his sisters. He’ll be o.k. I hope not with Bristol! ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/25 "2019-09-11T00:08:24Z")
How’s that lovey cherishy thing workin’ out for ya, Sarah? Ass goblin. ---
**Author:** ![MollyCatherine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@MollyCatherine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MollyCatherine)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/26 "2019-09-11T00:30:11Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > No. I expect to see her on a reality show before long, appearing with other people you forgot existed. > [@Frazzled](#): > > I guess she’ll be on the next season of “Celebrity Bachelorette”? Who’d be the contestants? Screech from Saved by the Bell comes to mind… > [@tricoteuse](#): > > Dancing with the Stars? > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Sarah Palin, OJ Simpson, Dennis Rodman, Andy Dick, Michelle Bachmann and Roseanne Barr on the next MTV’s _Real World_! > [@Icarus](#): > > We haven’t the last of either of them. I’m quite certain some reality TV fool is already trying to come up with an Alaskan Wilderness Tough Guy show for Todd. > [@Chefguy](#): > > Maybe if they have a show that’s just about cellulite. > [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > It’s all fun and games until the first episode of the moose hunting themed reality dating show to find her new spouse. 7 people talking about a hypothetical reality show, and no one remembers the oh-so-popular 2010 _[Sarah Palin’s Alaska](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1625263/)_? But it was such… so… uh, it was… it was. For one short season, it was. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/27 "2019-09-11T01:53:27Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > No. I expect to see her on a reality show before long, appearing with other people you forgot existed. I keep expecting her to show up on Dancing With the Stars alongside the other washed up celebrities. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/28 "2019-09-11T02:13:42Z")
The following is a link to one of the songs sung in a Juneau production of The Mikado. It’s _I’ve Got a Little List._ At about 2:05 there is a Palin reference that makes the audience laugh. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DbHxh2NOJIw/maxresdefault.jpg "Juneau Mikado: 8 - I've Got a Little List") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHxh2NOJIw) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/29 "2019-09-11T02:22:46Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Ooofff, that turned my stomach. Al Gore wouldn’t touch her with John McCain’s dead dick. And that cracked me up, in a warped sort of way. I’d find this amusing if it didn’t involve a special-needs pre-teen who I personally have always believed is their grandchild, the offspring of their son Track and a so-far-unidentified girlfriend. How did she ever get elected governor of Alaska, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/30 "2019-09-11T02:28:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I keep expecting her to show up on Dancing With the Stars alongside the other washed up celebrities. And politicians; Rick Perry was on a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/31 "2019-09-11T02:41:31Z")
I was thinking _Worst Cooks In America: Celebrity Edition_ but who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/32 "2019-09-11T02:50:08Z")
Bristol did Dancing with the stars, didn’t she? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/33 "2019-09-11T03:56:47Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Bristol did Dancing with the stars, didn’t she? How about “The Apprentice” for Ms Dontcha know?? Someone tweet the orange-fucked retard. Ivanka can host. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/34 "2019-09-11T04:04:10Z")
I keep imagining her giving him some weird excuse like “only dead fish go with the flow” while trying to justify leaving her marriage before it’s finished. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/35 "2019-09-11T04:30:20Z")
After Palin’s loss in 2008, Steve Bannon directed a film about her called “The Undefeated”. As both Bannon and Palin have some free time, I eagerly await the release of “The Married”, or perhaps “The Undivorced”. ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/36 "2019-09-11T14:25:09Z")
You know, in the various news coverage I’ve glanced at, and in this thread there’s still one question that occurs to me every time: Why the fuck should I care? ---
**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:** [September 11, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/37 "2019-09-11T14:51:32Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > How did she ever get elected governor of Alaska, anyway? Circumstance and a pretty face. She had been a member of Governor Murkowski’s administration, but was fired for exposing some shenanigans within her department. She used that to cultivate a “maverick” image and was elected mayor of Wasilla. Murkowski, a 26 year veteran of the U.S. Senate, managed to become one of the least popular governors in the entire country in three short years, mainly because of his arrogance and incompetence. Palin saw opportunity and went after him, parlaying her looks and maverick reputation into a win. It didn’t take long for that all to go sour, of course. She was a dismal governor and a vindictive bitch to those who she felt had ever wronged her. Her husband set up shop in the administration and began going through personnel records to find dirt on police officers and others. Had McCain done much better vetting on her, all of this would have been revealed, and he would have known what a willfully ignorant person she really is. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/38 "2019-09-11T16:17:02Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > I guess she’ll be on the next season of “Celebrity Bachelorette”? Who’d be the contestants? Screech from Saved by the Bell comes to mind… That’s harsh, man. I’m okay with hoping Sarah Palin gets, I dunno, cancer or something, but wishing Dustin Diamond on a person is going too far. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/39 "2019-09-11T16:32:29Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Ooofff, that turned my stomach. Al Gore wouldn’t touch her with John McCain’s dead dick. Haven’t you heard the term, “Politics makes strange bedfellows”? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987/40 "2019-09-11T23:45:21Z")
This is just the break McCain’s campaign staff has been waiting for. “Sarah, this is Steve Schmidt Yeah, the guy who made you famous. Y’see, my wife is out of town this weekend and I’m thinking we could get together and talk about old times. Entirely by coincidence I’m in Wasilla and am staying at the Lake Lucille Inn.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shed-your-tears-for-sarah-and-todd-right-here/839987.md?page=1)