# We need to make emergency plans for the prospect of a Palin presidency. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259 "2008-10-30T15:50:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/21 "2008-10-30T18:27:18Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > I can just stay here in this suburb of Manhattan, because it isn’t the Real World.😃 duh:smack: I meant Real America (although personally I’m not in the Real World all the time). We should definitly bring Tina Fey for entertainment purposes. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/22 "2008-10-30T18:32:05Z")
The president has plenty of advisors, I’m sure they’ll steer her in the right direction. In fact, depending on how decisive the president is, I’m wondering how much the advisors really run things, due to limiting or choosing what information they convey. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/23 "2008-10-30T18:37:51Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > The president has plenty of advisors, I’m sure they’ll steer her in the right direction. In fact, depending on how decisive the president is, I’m wondering how much the advisors really run things, due to limiting or choosing what information they convey. I suspect she’d clear out whoever McCain had appointed for a slew of new advisors. Each appointee would be stupider than the last. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/24 "2008-10-30T19:06:09Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I suspect she’d clear out whoever McCain had appointed for a slew of new advisors. Each appointee would be stupider than the last. She only has so many highschool classmates. I imagine the best of them are running the Alaskan government already. Maybe she can tap the cheerleading squad. I know I’d like to. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/25 "2008-10-30T19:08:48Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I’ll be safe in my position as Commissar over this region & I assure all Dopers within my sphere of power will have good treatment in the re-education camp and a daily bowl of warm healthy gruel. > > ~FriarTed of the Palinistan Order Need a minion? I work cheap. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/26 "2008-10-30T19:41:08Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I suspect she’d clear out whoever McCain had appointed for a slew of new advisors. Each appointee would be stupider than the last. Well I could qualify for that, put me somewhere in the middle! I could even commute to DC. President Palin = a cushy job for Control-Z. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/27 "2008-10-30T19:44:47Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Need a minion? I work cheap. Only your knowledge of showtunes, and Ted’s appreciation for hot chicks, prevents me from releasing the bees on both of you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/28 "2008-10-30T21:21:44Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Off topic, but what would happen if Palin got knocked up while in the Oval Office? Maybe she would resign, as did Polly Bergen’s President McCloud! [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058266/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058266/) ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/29 "2008-10-30T21:31:30Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > What, are you nuts? Leaving? This will be the best show _ever!_ Yeah, well, I’ll watch it from Toronto. Hey, do they have community colleges in Canada? I’m pretty good at English language lit, and I’m a big fan of Margaret Atwood and Marshall McLuhan. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/30 "2008-10-30T21:45:36Z")
I’ve got lots of booze. I’ve gots lots of guns. I’ve got lots of porn. Wait…I might just be a Republican! No, no. Never mind. I found my sense of moral decency. False alarm. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/31 "2008-10-30T22:04:48Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > If Palin becomes President, I am going to go to the observation deck of the CN Tower, face south, and heckle unmercifully. > > _Then_ duck and run for cover. (I can design solar-heated houses whose only high-tech need is window glass; tar, stone, wood, hay, and thatch are most of the rest of the building materials. Am I in?) Why are you asking me? I told you we’re going to Brigadoon, and when. Obviously I’ll be at the portal, and a glance at any post of mine may give you a clue as to the location. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/32 "2008-10-30T22:14:49Z")
Should Palin become President of the USA, I will know for certain that prayers are worth nothing and that whatever gods there be have abandoned us; whatever society survives will exist in total chaos. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/33 "2008-10-30T22:16:30Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > What, are you nuts? Leaving? This will be the best show _ever!_ QFT. Seriously, you need to chill, dude. Put the kettle on and make yourself a nice pot of tea. Mine’s with milk and one sugar. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/34 "2008-10-30T22:16:37Z")
As you’ll see from my location, I am already in the right place\* for a Palin Presidency. Creationism in Science class! :smack::eek: The US recovers its international reputation … not. :rolleyes: \*abroad ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/35 "2008-10-30T22:16:49Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Should Palin become President of the USA, I\*\* will know for certain that prayers are worth nothing and that whatever gods there be have abandoned us; whatever society survives will exist in total chaos\*\*. You’re freaking me out, man. That is EXACTLY what Ed Zotti posted immediately after I joined. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/36 "2008-10-30T23:00:30Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > You’re freaking me out, man. That is EXACTLY what Ed Zotti posted immediately after I joined. You know, I _thought_ I felt a Presence behind me as I was typing. Spooky, but Halloween almost here. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/37 "2008-10-30T23:08:06Z")
[Sara Palin as President](http://www.palinaspresident.us/)… an interactive journey 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/38 "2008-10-30T23:36:34Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Who’s with me? And what do you have to contribute to the refugee supplies? You want someone to _cater_ your escape? Well, hell. I’ve gotten pretty good with stuffed grape leaves, and there is this really nice local muscadine wine. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/39 "2008-10-30T23:47:34Z")
I can field dress a human. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/40 "2008-10-30T23:49:12Z")
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