# STFU and GTFA, Sarah Palin **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 25, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984 "2009-06-25T20:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/61 "2009-06-26T13:30:51Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > I’m still waiting for her to comment on the \*\*Nailin’ Palin \*\*video from last year. Talk about the outrage meter hitting 11. She should be outraged. The actress looked nothing like her and had the worst boob job I’ve seen outside of a “plastic surgery disasters” website. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/62 "2009-06-26T13:33:53Z")
All of this media whoring is keeping Palin in the public eye but I think she’s actually hurting her political career. Sure conservatives love the idea that liberals are evil people that pick on a poor helpless mother who’s just trying to protect her innocent family. But are they going to want to make that same victim President? Palin’s turning her public image into one of stereotypically female weakness - somebody who needs to be defended. The Republicans are not going to want that in 2012 - they’ll want somebody who looks strong and unbeatable. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/63 "2009-06-26T13:37:39Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > [Palin hits back at ‘malicious’ photo](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/25/palin-hits-back-at-malicious-photo/) > > I wish for once she’d make the news for, you know, _governing_, … [Did you hear about this?](http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/3641507376/) ---
**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:** [June 26, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/64 "2009-06-26T14:24:17Z")
“…and here, ladies and gentlemen, you can see Biegel’s best-known work, _Madonna of the Baby With a Moustache_, which she completed in 2009…” ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/65 "2009-06-26T14:37:43Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Personally, I’m OK with that. But she wouldn’t be sinking i the left ignored her. She’s very popular among Republicans and is doing everything she can to stay in the public eye. Besides, being catty about a woman I’ll never meet lets me exercise my catty skills in a way that being catty about my sister or my brother in laws girlfriend doesn’t. I think that there is a certain about of recreational outrage and recreational cattiness that we exercise regarding public figures - because you can talk about Lindsey Lohan’s trainwreck life or Jon and Kate’s marriage or Sarah Palin’s stupidity - if you do that about your sister in law, your friend’s friend, or your neighbor it might come back to haunt you. Most of us enjoy rolling our eyes, judging, being catty, and gossip. If you don’t, you are a better person than I am. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/66 "2009-06-26T14:50:15Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > Palin was a VP candidate and one of 50 governors in the US. She can get media attention very easily. The point is, she chooses to obtain it for cripplingly dumb reasons. She could call a presser for the “Alaskan Defense of Marriage Act,” or siccing the National Guard on the Russkies and it would be on the news. Instead, she gets the cameras and mics pointed in her direction and says: > “Stop picking on me and my family… er, I mean DESECRATING me!” I can’t believe you didn’t realize yourself this after typing that, but look here: feigning outrage over trivial or imagined slights keeps Palin busy - and a busy Palin is a Palin that doesn’t have time to introduce an Alaskan DOMA or send National Guardsmen to occupy Vladivostok or any one of a hundred other stupid things she might otherwise think of. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/67 "2009-06-26T14:57:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The Republicans are not going to want that in 2012 - they’ll want somebody who looks strong and unbeatable. McCain it is then. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/68 "2009-06-26T15:00:53Z")
Relations with Latin America are becoming more and more important, and Mark Sanford’s got lots of experience in that area. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/69 "2009-06-26T15:18:40Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I can’t believe you didn’t realize yourself this after typing that, but look here: feigning outrage over trivial or imagined slights keeps Palin busy - and a busy Palin is a Palin that doesn’t have time to introduce an Alaskan DOMA or send National Guardsmen to occupy Vladivostok or any one of a hundred other stupid things she might otherwise think of. Honestly, I didn’t believe she was as stupid as she actually is. I thought she was a wingnut, but had some intelligence. I was thinking about her making “defense of the family” speeches for millions a pop, stuff like that until 2012. I’m eagerly awaiting her next foible. This is fun to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/70 "2009-06-26T15:20:13Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > [Did you hear about this?](http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/3641507376/) I hadn’t! Thanks for pointing it out. Sounds like a good cause. However, I also didn’t hear about the 20 other governers who have enacted the [Interstate Compact on Opportunities for Military Children](http://www.csg.org/programs/ncic/EducatingMilitaryChildrenCompact.aspx)for their states. It also doesn’t seem that any governors have refused to do so (at least at this point). ---
**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:** [June 26, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/71 "2009-06-26T15:31:59Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > [Did you hear about this?](http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/3641507376/) It’s a fair cop, that’s actually respectable. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/72 "2009-06-26T15:43:13Z")
For those who don’t know: Eddie Burke is a right-wing talk radio asshole who has managed to offend the entire Native population of Alaska, most of the women, and a fair number of all the rest. Meg Stapleton is a former news reporter for the local NBC station who went first to a comm company and was then drafted by Palin to be her attack dog. The only thing they have in common is that they’re both cunts. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/73 "2009-06-26T16:35:59Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > It’s a fair cop, that’s actually respectable. Definitely a courageous stand against the powerful “No Support for Army Kids” lobby. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/74 "2009-06-26T18:13:53Z")
I’m having trouble figuring out why this was big news to Palin. If a government official put this image on their blog that’d be one thing, but this is just some random internet blogger. Has Palin been on the internet before? Surely this isn’t the most offensive thing about her she can find? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/75 "2009-06-26T18:54:46Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > McCain it is then. He will be what..85? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/76 "2009-06-26T19:40:09Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > Honestly, I didn’t believe she was as stupid as she actually is. I thought she was a wingnut, but had some intelligence. I was thinking about her making “defense of the family” speeches for millions a pop, stuff like that until 2012. If she had half a brain she would be actually reading about the world and then make some half intelligent policy speech. But that would require her admitting to herself that she’s ignorant today, and that will never happen ---
**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:** [June 26, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/77 "2009-06-26T23:27:09Z")
According to Politico, John Kerry commented on the Sanford disappearance by saying (paraphrased from memory), “If it had to be a missing governor, why not the one from Alaska?” Palin, upon hearing of the remark quipped back “I wish he was here. I’d ask him, ‘Why the long face, John?’” I admit I chuckled. If she was more prone to respond like that (if at all) instead of climbing up on a cross every time the chance comes up, she might actually win respect among someone outside the choir. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/78 "2009-06-27T01:08:56Z")
That was actually sort of stupid and uncool for John Kerry to say. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/79 "2009-06-27T01:32:00Z")
> [@treis](#): > > Again, why? Why is a 1 year old baby a fair target but a 1 year old baby with Down Syndrome off limits. Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? Look how smiley and cuddly and cheek-to-cheeky she is with the baby in that picture. Clearly, this is a Down Syndrome baby with special need for some high-grade mommying. If it had been one of her other kids, the only thing you’d see in a photo of her and said kid would be her presenting the baby with a high-powered hunting rifle, and saying, “If some jerk-ass kid from Tennessee can kill him a b’ar at age three, you can manage a moose. Now get out there and don’t come back without supper. And mind you don’t spoil the trophy.” ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984/80 "2009-06-27T01:32:14Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > That was actually sort of stupid and uncool for John Kerry to say. Has anyone ever accused John Kerry of being cool? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stfu-and-gtfa-sarah-palin/500984.md?page=5)