# 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:** 3
**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, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/41 "2008-10-30T23:58:00Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > I can field dress a human. I can’t decide whether you would be useful to have around, or whether you should immediately have a mucadine wine bottle accident. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/42 "2008-10-31T00:04:32Z")
I’m going to go with: Hide the wife and grease the cats ass. IT’S PARTY TIME! ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/43 "2008-10-31T00:05:39Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > I can field dress a human. Bet that backstraps good eatin’ ---
**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 31, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/44 "2008-10-31T00:10:36Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > Bet that backstraps good eatin’ adds Omegaman to “wine bottle accident” list. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/45 "2008-10-31T00:14:36Z")
I think it would be about time to start seriously working towards bringing back the Bear Flag Republic. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/46 "2008-10-31T00:21:51Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I think it would be about time to start seriously working towards bringing back the Bear Flag Republic. I’ll bring guns and pie. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/47 "2008-10-31T00:35:53Z")
Defect to Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Carson\_O\_Genic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carson\_O\_Genic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carson_O_Genic)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/48 "2008-10-31T10:57:03Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Need a minion? I work cheap. Cheap? No way bud. Minimum wage will be first to go. BTW, the gruel is a buck two eighty per, extra fer moose gristle. ---
**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 31, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/49 "2008-10-31T15:04:33Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I speak moose, so I’ll lead the resistance from the north. Dude, we’re going to Brigadoon on vacation, not to form a resistance. Despite the wisecrack about purges, President Palin isn’t going to be a despot; she’s just going to be insanely incompetent. ---
**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 31, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/50 "2008-10-31T15:52:05Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Despite the wisecrack about purges, President Palin isn’t going to be a despot; she’s just going to be insanely incompetent. Sure, you’ll be safely on vacation while they herd folks into the “Liberal Labor Camps”. ---
**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 31, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/51 "2008-10-31T19:26:27Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I can’t decide whether you would be useful to have around, or whether you should immediately have a mucadine wine bottle accident. Useful. I also know how to brew mead, beer, and various other intoxicating beverages, and I can fabricate pretty much anything given enough time to tool ratio to work with with. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/52 "2008-10-31T19:48:14Z")
My partner, my mother, and myself have joked about Canada. My partner’s mother (a devout Palin supporter) has (only kinda jokingly) pledged to move to Mexico if Obama wins. She doesn’t want any of those filthy Mexicans hoping north across the border, but she doesn’t seem to mind the idea of heading south. ---
**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 31, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/53 "2008-10-31T19:48:19Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > I also know how to brew mead, beer, and various other intoxicating beverages, Yeah, but what happens if I pass out while you’re hungry? ---
**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 31, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/54 "2008-10-31T21:49:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Sure, you’ll be safely on vacation while they herd folks into the “Liberal Labor Camps”. Like I’m not a selfish bastard 99.9993453% of the time. As long as Kimmy and my nieces are safe, I’m staying in Brigadoon. Okay, I’ll come back to save Natalie Portman if it comes down to it, but I’ll have to sacrifice one of you guys to keep my karma in balance. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/55 "2008-11-01T00:29:23Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’ll have to sacrifice one of you guys to keep my karma in balance. Karma? Skald the Rhymer, Dastardly Bastard as Protagonist, Destroyer of Worlds, concerned with Karma? That’s like…like Mrs. Plant being concerned with a budget. No way in hell. It ain’t gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/56 "2008-11-01T01:05:56Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Yeah, but what happens if I pass out while you’re hungry? I can bake bread and could probably help **Acid Lamp** make a good wine sauce to use when we roast you on a spit. Tell me, how athletic are you? I’m sure I could scrounge up some good herbs to rub on ya. I can also sew and I recently learned how to knit, so maybe I could make fezzes and scarves and fingerless gloves for everyone. We’d all be crazy-sexy cannibal hobos. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/57 "2008-11-01T01:15:12Z")
M’Lord Skald, I’d like to apologize for the Karma thing, and respectfully suggest we, in the method of the Lord High Executioner of Gilbert and Sullivan’s _The Mikado,_ make a Little List. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/58 "2008-11-01T15:46:16Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Karma? **Skald the Rhymer, Dastardly Bastard as Protagonist, Destroyer of Worlds** , concerned with Karma? That’s like…like Mrs. Plant being concerned with a budget. No way in hell. It ain’t gonna happen. I am stealing that description of me and have no intention of giving you even a sliver of credit. That evil enough for you? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/59 "2008-11-01T18:42:29Z")
Sorry if I’m a day late and a dollar short here, I can’t check _every_ Palin thread, but is this a good time to point out an anagram that a reader posted to _Private Eye_ magazine this week: “Vice-President Sarah Palin” = _Is Perhaps Devil Incarnate_ :eek: ---
**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:** [November 1, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259/60 "2008-11-01T18:49:05Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Sorry if I’m a day late and a dollar short here, I can’t check _every_ Palin thread, but is this a good time to point out an anagram that a reader posted to _Private Eye_ magazine this week: > > “Vice-President Sarah Palin” = _Is Perhaps Devil Incarnate_ :eek: :: texts my relative down in Tartarus, waits for response :: No worries. My uncle Luci assures me that Governor Palin is neither one of his many forms nor the anti-Christ. He further mentions that we’ll all find out the true identify of the latter later this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-to-make-emergency-plans-for-the-prospect-of-a-palin-presidency/470259.md?page=4)