Current occupation: Governor of Alaska
Age: 45
Residence: Wasilla, Alaska
Little-known public official interviewed in the August 2009 issue of Runner's World magazine:
"I feel so crappy if I go more than a few days without running. I have to run. No matter how rotten I feel before or during a run, it's always worth it to me afterwards. Sweat is my sanity. A great frustration I had during the campaign was when the McCain staff wouldn't carve out time for me to go for a run. The days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat. ...
"I went for a run at John McCain's ranch a couple of days before the debate with Joe Biden. My favorite thing in the world is to run on hot, dusty roads. I don't get enough of that in Alaska. So I was in heaven and there were plenty of hills so I knew my thighs were going to just throb and my lungs were going to burn and that's what I crave."
Palin intends to continue running because she feels a commitment.
This administration needs to be challenged & I hope Sarah Palin takes them on. What passes for progressive thinking today is so boring, no one's questioning the federal government. Boy are we going to get it in the can.
Happy 4th of July to all you Suckers ( oops, I meant FMU Hipsters )!
Posted by: h | July 04, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Happy 4th of July to you too, h! I am a Sucker, 'cause I want to Suck on Palin's tits.
Posted by: Haiduk | July 04, 2009 at 10:47 AM
I wonder if SP cried foul during her basketball games as much as she does now when it comes to liberal media outlets. What passes for conservative thinking these days is so boring, all they do is whine about the federal government.
Revolution is fundamentally a progressive idea - vs. reactionary politics. Happy declaration-of-revolt-against-your-government day!
Posted by: recovering moose addict | July 04, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Anyone else have the sneaking suspicion that her resignation was motivated by those pesky ethics investigations?
Posted by: M Munro | July 04, 2009 at 11:23 AM
LOVE HER! I am not saying "I love her" (which I do). I am ordering YOU to love her! Love her with all your heart.
Posted by: Mark Martin | July 04, 2009 at 11:41 AM
You all seem to be skirting the obvious, which is that Palin is just not THAT hot. Let's say she's "hot for a pseudo-politician," that I can live with. But if Karen O. ran for public office, this would all be rendered instantly moot.
Posted by: WmMBerger | July 04, 2009 at 12:17 PM
I'd kick her out of my bed.
Just so I could say I did.
Posted by: bruceleh | July 04, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Reason for resignation? I heard that there are federal indictments coming...
Posted by: Jack | July 04, 2009 at 12:42 PM
She's resigning so she can focus on the 2012 nomination. And Joe the Plumber will be her running mate. It's like the screenplay for Idiocracy is the new Republican playbook.
Posted by: jenjen | July 04, 2009 at 01:04 PM
I heard she was joining a Black Oak Arkansas cover band
Posted by: bartelby | July 04, 2009 at 02:54 PM
When your parents go to sleep there's this cool comic David Letterman who goofs on Sarah Palin. He's funny, so is SNL ( Saturday Night Live ), don't worry the warden's will be asleep it's on 11:30, too. They also made a video, "Lazy Sunday", you guys should check it out! It's Fresh!
No amount of George Soros $$'s can stop this slice, face it.
Posted by: h | July 04, 2009 at 08:43 PM
It's funny that there are dumbasses in this thread who are trumpeting Palin's resignation in incoherent disgrace as a TRIUMPH of conservatism. What's next? Norm Coleman's victory speech?
Posted by: Don Buddin | July 04, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Exactly Don, the reduction of their cognitive dissonance can be a sad thing to see. Check out the picture here and how they used the flag like it was a throw blanket. I assume Palin saw the set-up and said nothing. After all, she did manage to get the banner for her son in the shot too. Somehow I don't feel this flag desecration will talked about on the Drudgereport, Freerepublic, Redstate, NRO, etc. as an example of Palin's anti-Americanism. That's what gets me about the dumbasses, they call themselves superpatriots and it is all an act to hide their philosophy of reaction and underlying stupidity.
Posted by: Jay | July 04, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Hey h! I know all about David Letterman. I think he's funny too! SNL too! Who made the Lazy Sunday video, David Letterman or SNL? I want to check it out. I don't know who George Soros is, but I guess he must be rich, huh? What kind of slice are you talking about, though? I don't know what you mean.
Posted by: haiduk | July 05, 2009 at 01:25 AM
Hey, halduk,
Is that what Ross Perot meant by "that giant sucking sound?"
Posted by: Erik in NH | July 05, 2009 at 08:14 AM
Those legs just scream, "water retention/edema, here I come!"
Posted by: WmMBerger | July 05, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Whoa! Just back from Google Dictionary & gee I hadn't any idea of my own stupidity (underlying).
As I am up against the educated masses ( 9.5 % & rising ), I will fall upon my sword of lame sarcasm & surrender...
Posted by: h | July 05, 2009 at 01:51 PM
I enjoyed this picture. Thank you.
Posted by: Steve Barton | July 05, 2009 at 03:39 PM
You'd think after the last grifter that the marks would wise up, wouldn't you? Instead, they double down on their bets. I gotta say though, that I couldn't imagine a better gift for America to preserve our freedom and democracy than the resignation of Sarah Palin. Perhaps I'd start voting Republican again if they'd kick the theocrats and tinhorn fascists out of the party. I can always dream, can't I?
Posted by: K. | July 05, 2009 at 08:05 PM
how could Sarah Palin possibly fill the shoes of Joe Biden?
MEANWHILE: billion$ going nowhere, job losses in the millions, anti-Zionists punked by N. Korea & Iran ...and FMU bloggers ashamed to even mention the name Barack Obama.
Posted by: h | July 05, 2009 at 09:08 PM
Keep posting h, you are giving me lots of examples of authoritarian idiocy for use in my courses. Dare I say the name Barack Obama? Oh my, I just did. Please go back to your cave and leave us alone. While you carp away the Obama administration will keep working to get the country back on track after the disaster of Bush II.
Posted by: Jay | July 05, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Hey H, I'd think you'd be happy - sounds like the same as last year when Dubya was in charge....
Posted by: Bill V | July 05, 2009 at 11:52 PM
It seems to me that what Americans have traditionally "clamored" for is not change, but (rather) stability and a sense of continuity... whether it be the reaction to the shortsighted-ness of conservative governments (Herbert Hoover's laissez faire leading to Roosevelt's New Deal) or liberal governments (LBJ's Great Society, disillusion with the Vietnam War and internal strife leading to the "law and order" of Nixon and, eventually, the Reagan Revolution)... With apologies to H, perhaps what the Republicans should do now is to quit carping about the supposed failures of a new administration, admit that they lost, and find a way to reinvent themselves to reflect a new reality in order to make themselves competitive in what Oliver Wendell Holmes called the "market place of ideas." The political pendulum always swings, usually determined by events outside the control of conventional political wisdom...
Just sayin' bro... peace
Posted by: Erik in NH | July 06, 2009 at 10:49 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzNPEGWNos
Posted by: WmMBerger | July 07, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Baby-maker makes me pro-life hard!
But if she's elected, no snail trail.
Obama 012!
Posted by: boil | July 09, 2009 at 12:00 AM