if sarah palin is elected president in 2012....what will you do?

[Gato Moteado]

seriously, what would you do in that scenario?

certainly, it's highly unlikely that the US would grow dumb enough to elect palin. but with dieboldt and other republican dirty tricks, anything is possible i guess.

so, if it happens, what will you personally do?

leave the country?

stay and just deal with it?

hit the streets and protest?

[The Straight Story]

1. Drink more (nt)

[redwitch]

4. Yup.

Me too.

[csziggy]

7. Good answer. I'd cry since I no longer drink.

Probably end up locking myself in my house and only going out for supplies. If I stayed away from the news, maybe I could ignore the chaos that would ensue with a dumber, more ignorant idiot that W in charge of the country.

[The Straight Story]

15. I'll be a good american and help you with your share of the drinking

We would get through it together.

[Richard Steele]

2. Endeavor to persevere.

[bluestate10]

12. Agreed. Unless Palin mistakes the nuclear button for her makeup

compact, we can just wait her out. I would not advocate coming up with frivolous reasons to remove her from office like wingnuts do to democratic Presidents.

[OnyxCollie]

65. I thought I could pull the covers over my head

and wait Chimpy out.

Didn't work.

[elocs]

21. My favorite Outlaw Josey Wales quote. That's about all that most of us can do

because most of us do live lives of quiet desperation. Most of us do not have the money or option of simply leaving the country (besides, without money what other country would want us) and neither do we have the luxury of taking to the streets. No, most of us will just have to do the best we can do.

[Richard Steele]

49. I feel much in common with Chief Dan George's character in that film

I never surrendered.
They captured my horse, and made him surrender.

That says so much, in so few words.

[RKP5637]

52. Prozac will probably be sold next to the aspirin there will be such demand. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

28. One of my favorite movies,

and favorite sayings, and it's probably what I would do in such a situation. At least it would mean that she was out of Alaska for good.

[Motown_Johnny]

72. ROFL

the only problem with that is the whole "going on the warpath" thing that followed

[Warren Stupidity]

3. I think that would be a good time to seriously consider emigration. nt.

[Gato Moteado]

9. so many people say that....but they never go through with it

i imagine there's a point where people would leave, but i wonder how bad things have to get.

people didn't leave when bush got elected. would palin be any worse than bush? they're both too dumb to govern and are both merely puppets for the same group of corporatists. what would be different between a palin presidency and the bush presidency?

[TheKentuckian]

46. Palin make Bush look like Churchill.

[Robb]

5. I'd relax, and see if I could conjure up a pair of wings.

I like me a flying dream.

[Vinca]

6. Husband's a Canadian. End of story.

[Nay]

27. I'm a Canadian, husband comes with. End of story here, too! See ya

back in the homeland, Vinca.

[NV Whino]

8. Claim political asylum

somewhere far away. Maybe Egypt.

[prolesunited]

10. Move to Costa Rica

of course!

[Gato Moteado]

13. Come on down!

How have you been? Long time no see!

[Blue_In_AK]

31. Where in CR do you live?

My daughter and son-in-law are living between Montezuma and Cabuya. They'll be staying down there for at least year. They really love it.

[Gato Moteado]

35. i'm in the san jose area right now........

....but i have a couple of rain forest properties on the central and southern pacific coast where i plan to be living as soon as possible.

[Blue_In_AK]

42. We enjoyed San Jose when we were down there,

but the beach was the best.





Did you see my photos from our vacation? I'm sure the San Jose shots will look familiar.

http://northernvisions.smugmug.com/Travel/Costa-Rica-January-2011/15666871_df5RB#1174256978_ranwT

[Gato Moteado]

58. great photos!

nt

[Blue_In_AK]

29. I gotta admit

it's pretty fabulous down there. We just got back from a two week vacation last month. LOVED IT!










http://northernvisions.smugmug.com/Travel/Costa-Rica-January-2011/15666871_df5RB#1174256978_ranwT

[NuclearDem]

51. Really spectacular, spared no expense

[Davis_X_Machina]

11. I'm worrying about....

...asteroids, alien invasions, zombies, Mayan prophecies -- you know, real threats.

No one with 50%, or more unfavorables, two years out, with 100% name recognition, will ever win the Republican nomination, never mind the White House.

If she wins the nomination, Nebraska and South Dakota would go Democratic for the first time since '64.

That's how toxic she is.

Now I have to go reset the leprechaun detector.

[RKP5637]

14. Put on a hardhat, 'casue then I 'will know' the sky is falling in and she is the

2012 Mayan prophecy.

[Hannah Bell]

16. if bozo the clown is elected president in 2012, what will you do? about as much chance.

[HuckleB]

18. +1

[virtualobserver]

32. It would be the end of the Republican party if she did...........

Which is why Rove and the gang would never even allow her to get the nomination, which she would have a shot at (if you'll pardon the expression).

[Gato Moteado]

34. yeah, i think you're right....

....i think there are enough morons in the repuke party to have her nominated....but rove would do all he could to make sure it didn't happen.

[Hugabear]

70. attitudes like this is exactly how it COULD happen

I'm sure that many of us never thought that * would get "elected" in 2000, and even less of us thought he would get re-elected in 2004. NONE of us here in Florida would have ever thought that Rick Scott would have a chance in hell of becoming governor - absolutely no political experience, and a huge fraud scandal hanging over his head.

Like it or not, she IS a major figure in the GOP, a darling for the Tea Party movement. With the economy in the crapper, it's difficult to say exactly how voters will act.

[Hannah Bell]

91. palin isn't bush; not even close. the bushes are a political dynasty going

back over 4 generations.

[Hugabear]

93. Nobody would have ever given Rick Scott a chance in hell to become Florida's governor

A year ago at this time, many people would have rolled their eyes and scoffed if you had suggested that Rick Scott would be our governor. For one, he was going up against Bill McCollum in the GOP primary, someone with tons of political experience and the full backing of the GOP establishment. Secondly, Rick Scott has absolutely no political experience at all. Finally, he had the whole Columbia/HCA fraud scandal swirling around him.

And yet, somehow he got himself elected.

[Vickers]

17. I'll have that "Dumbest. President. Ever." tattoo updated. n/t

[IADEMO2004]

19. Demand a recount

[onehandle]

20. Blame Obama voters. The same ones who didn't vote in 2010 and gave teabaggers the House. nt

[WingDinger]

22. I'll stampede my fucking camel down 1600 DC.

[Gman]

23. It ain't gonna happen so I can't even imagine what I would do

[Gato Moteado]

33. sure it ain't gonna happen (probably)......

...it was just a hypothetical question.

i don't however count her out just yet as the repuke nominee and here's why:repub voters are morons.

and if it ain't palin, it could posibly end up being someone equally as frightening, like gingrich or huckabee.

my guess is that it will be romney who wins the repuke primary, but you never know. if the fundies decide they don't want a mormon they could make a big showing and tilt things toward hickabee or palin, especially if the teabagger movement is still alive.

looking at the whole lineup of repuke hopefuls, romney appears to be the least frightening......and he looks like a slimy used car salesman! imagine sarah palin, newt gingrich, rick santorum, mike hickabee or michelle bachman as the republican candidate for president in 2012.

[justiceischeap]

44. Kinda like how GWB was never gonna beat Al Gore? Never say never.

There's a lot of time left for the US to get even more stupid.

[RKP5637]

59. The stupid in the US is plentiful. I never underestimate what US voters are

capable of when it comes to voting in their own worst interest. It not the candidates that scare me, it's the voters that vote for them.

[ixion]

24. The same thing I'm doing now: Hunkering down and trying to get ready to weather the storm

because it really doesn't matter, at this point, who is in office. We've got a rough path to walk, and it's not if, but when.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Trust her to lead the nation to peace and prosperity...after I get my Mastur's Dugree in Stupid.

[MilesColtrane]

26. I would explore my living options in some other country.

Some place warm, with good music...

[martymar64]

30. Why do we keep talking about her? Let her fade away into obscurity.

[AlinPA]

36. America may be stupid enough to elect her. The republicans are certainly stupid enough

to nominate her with the teabaggers in charge of their party now.

[Cleita]

37. I think I will brush up on my cartooning talents.n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

38. Move to Russia

So I can keep a close watch on Alaska.

[Ikonoklast]

39. Hope that Apophis doesn't miss.

[WinkyDink]

40. Hope the Mayans were right.

[mmonk]

41. I don't ponder what will never happen.

[thaddeus_flowe]

43. leave the country

oh wait, i'm already planning on that.

[AsahinaKimi]

45. Its like being a Band member on board the Titanic ..

Just keep playing till the last of the ship is underwater..

[liberal N proud]

47. If you think I was active and vocal during the bu$h regime

You ain't seen nothing yet if that clown becomes President.

[Cirque du So-What]

48. Become a professional stand-up comedian

It'll be the only sector of the economy that exhibits any potential for growth.

[treestar]

68. +1

Endless material every day!

[SmileyRose]

69. LOL

[BoWanZi]

50. It will *not* happen nor could it happen. Just don't worry about it!

She is far more polarizing than even Hilliary is to the right wingers. She really is unelectable to even right wing moderates.

[Frustratedlady]

53. You'd see me on HGTV's "House Hunters International" as I purchase

a home on some tiny corner of the world that hasn't been screwed up by politics/humanity.

[L. Coyote]

54. If lighning strikes from God strike down a million people, what will you do?

Just saying we should discuss stuff that's likely to happen :rofl:

[Orangepeel]

55. Wait out the two years until she quits, I guess...

[customerserviceguy]

56. I think her very presence on the 2012 ballot

would be enough to hand the Congress back to us, both houses. She'd have trouble totally ruining the US without the votes to back her up.

I waited out many, many Repuke administrations, some of which were far more effective at getting what they wanted through Congress than Caribou Barbie ever could be.

[HughBeaumont]

57. I'm in the camp that welcomes Palin as the opponent.

And to those that say "Ut Ut UT! Reagan and Bewsh II got put in the White House twice, didn't they?" . . . .

Reagan was a convincing corporate spokesperson, had folksy demeanor and was groomed to succeed what was perceived at the time as a very weak presidency. With no strong challengers in his way and corporate America on his side, this was a "Right Person, Right Time" situation for the GOP.

Bewsh 43 got in because of his name, his daddy's buddies on the Supreme Court, blatant election theft, Gore's horrible campaign (selecting Lieberman and moving away from the positive attributes of the Clinton Administration didn't help matters) a mostly unvigilant public & internet, stupidity from independents and dirty trickery from Rove.

This isn't 1980 or 2000.

Sarah Palin only has the support of this country's grizzled nutjob Tea Klux Klan contingent and the religious whackjobs. She freely and without care aligns herself with the fringest of the fringe right wing-ding groups. Anyone with a brain stem can see this woman isn't qualified to run a Burger King, let alone this country. She's a tabloid comedy act. Thinking conservatives really aren't that jazzed about her, her family or her irresponsible behavior, which is why they're understandably concerned about 2012. I don't really even think she has near the media support Bewsh and Reagan did.

They know deep down she wouldn't even pose a remote threat to Barack Obama's re-election chances, and chances are, she's pretty much who they'll be stuck running with. Despite what you read on DU, most of the people who voted for Obama are glad they did. I just don't see her gaining any Obama states.

Plus, are we forgetting that three debates have to happen? Is Palin seriously being given a ghost of a chance in ANY of them? Did anyone remember that her debates against Biden were doctored? What's she going to run on? Her 1.5 years as a governor? Her ability to indebt a state that's less populated than Columbus, Ohio? Her astounding economic acumen, which consists of the same failed strategies that caused this mess?

[quaker bill]

60. Retire to an underdeveloped third world country

Things will likely be better there.

[shanti]

61. never happen n/t

[Mikeystyle]

62. B...b....b..... but Sarah Palin is the victim----because it's all about her!

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was in critical but stable condition following emergency surgery and hospitalization, in what her doctor said was directly related to the Jan. 8 shooting in Arizona. Dr. Gerry Billings, Palin’s surgeon at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska, said Palin became ill on a flight back to her home state Sunday night.

Billings noted that Palin had been playing the victim ever since the Arizona shooting and this, coupled with a dangerously enlarged ego, was too much for her cranial cavity to handle. Palin was taken from the airport straight to the hospital, where she underwent a partial ego-ectomy and treatment for victimitis.

“Her chief medical doctor had been warning our former governor that she had an enlarged ego, yet she declined to step out of the limelight,” Billings said. “She was also hit with an extreme case of victimitis over the past few weeks and as we all know these affect the same area of the brain. This region was so swollen that frankly I’m surprised she was even able to function. Only her strong willpower and complete lack of self-awareness kept her alive this long.”

(continued)

http://www.thechicagodope.com/2011/01/24/sarah-palin-recovering-from-ego-ectomy-and-victimitis/

[JoePhilly]

63. Prepare for the rapture ... her election would definitely signal the end of life on earth.

[Toon Me Out]

64. It's impossible.

I can haz hypothesiz: does not compute.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

66. I would tear up my voters card because it doesn't work

If she becomes "The Queen of the Land", then the country we all know and love, will be no more.

[treestar]

67. Move to Alaska and join the secession movement.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

71. When I've run out of material to fuel my projectile vomiting,

I expect I'd take to the streets. I can't leave the country and I can't imagine just bending over and taking a Palin administration you-know-where.

[Motown_Johnny]

73. wait for her to quit, it wouldn't take long

[underpants]

74. Outta here

I don't want to be a part of a nightmare like that.

[Rex]

75. She won't be. So I'm not even worried about it.

Better yet - she is a promise to Dems of another 4 years. They HAD their puppet for 8 years, changing the gender won't make any difference. I think this all comes from Pelosi/Clinton domination fear.

[Dominic]

77. Palin

I concur, she won't get elected.

[Raine]

76. I made it thru Raygun and Chimp

I'd just wait her out. Anymore the real control is in the hands of the corporations so they can deal with her if she was to become "leader".

[Blue-Jay]

78. How about the Hamburgler?

He's got a shot, right?

[lib2DaBone]

79. Don't under-estimate the stupidity of the American public.....

They are WAY less informed and lazy than even Fox News gives them credit for.

[Initech]

80. This is when we hit the streets.

[a la izquierda]

81. Leave. I've already warned my husband.

I'll have my PhD by then. I'll be able to find some country to take me.

[spanone]

82. that is not a serious scenario ...beyond highy unlikely

[newportdadde]

83. She will be the foil for Jeb Bush. She will make him look normal.

[Countdown_3_2_1]

84. Run Naked in the Streets, screaming.

If this horrid event happens,,,please join me.
Hmmm. Wait this will be in November...

OK, join me in the streets of Orlando running and screaming in the thousands.
and then lets do Disney Downtown...naked. we can swarm that New Years Eve bar.

If you're watching the results, and the impossible begins to happen. Drink a 5 hour energy drink, dive down to Orlando, get a hotel room. sleep for a bit. Do another 5 hour drink, and meet me at Disney downtown.
---Believe me. We will drive the news of Miss Prissy right off the tube.

Can you think of a better way to start off 4 years of cuthulu madness?

[Leithan]

88. Cthulu

Love the Craft, and he will forgive you.

[Leithan]

85. Follow Sharron Angle's advice...

[eppur_se_muova]

86. Emigration, definitely.

I'm getting too old to ride out another decade of crises due to Repug mismanagement.

[stevedeshazer]

87. First, change my underpants.

:wow:

[Monk06]

89. I would have myself voluntarily committed because that would prove that I was hallucinating.

[cherokeeprogressive]

90. I'd read more DU. n/t

[Major Hogwash]

92. I'd double the size of my ostrich farm and switch over to raising unicorns.

Travel around the farm in the pouch of a kangaroo to save gas, and eat wild jack rabbit meat more often.

[grahamhgreen]

94. I would tell all the conservadems that passing Republican-lite policies will not keep us in power.

[begin_within]

95. Wait out the 3 weeks until she quits

Then run like hell as Michelle Bachmann moves up to Prez and Christine O'Donell to VP.

[Obamanaut]

96. Same as now. Go to gym 5 days a week, work in the yard, ride bicycle, and

not get an ulcer.

So much of everything doesn't change with WH occupant change, so I won't either.