Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Good lord, these people are nuts.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

No one could have predicted…

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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Apocalypse talk is catching on!

And on Monday, John Weaver, McCain’s closest political adviser for much of the past decade, said that he was nearly certain that the former governor would never be the Republican nominee and added that, if she was, “it would surely mean a political apocalypse is upon us.”

Steve Schmidt goes with the more moderate “catastrophic” in describing a possible Palin nomination.

Perhaps I’m being overly dramatic here, but a Palin presidency and the end of the world are inextricably linked in my mind.

Update. Can you think of some clever word or phrase combining “apocalypse” with the words “Sarah Palin” or words associated with Sarah Palin? You guys are good at this stuff.

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  1. 1.

    crispy

    I’ve been having a lot of trouble getting to your site in the past couple days. Either the browser sits there waiting for a response that never comes, or it says it can’t find the site. Has your hosting suddenly gotten amazingly awful or is it something on my end?

  3. 3.

    WyldPiratd

    If Palin were to be elected Prez, I’m pretty sure I would eat the business end of my 12 gauge, so Apocalypse for me if not for thee.

  4. 4.

    slag

    Perhaps I’m being overly dramatic here, but a Palin presidency and the end of the world are inextricably linked in my mind.

    Nobody expects the Palin Presidential Rapture.

  5. 5.

    aimai

    yeah, I agree, if Palin were to be elected I think I’d prefer Apocalypse. Although, on reconsideration, if I really thought she was going to get in perhaps I’d go the other route and descend rapidly into sex and drugs, sort of the way the Europeans split between penitentials and ecstatic perverts at the time of the black death.

    aimai

  7. 7.

    RedKitten

    That’s the disturbing thing — a lot of Palin’s supporters say that her appeal is that she’s emblematic of the theory that anybody can be President. They really seem to forget that yes, anybody can be President, just like anybody can do any particular job…IF they have the brains and work hard to develop the skills.

    You wouldn’t want some unqualified dumbass performing brain surgery on you, so why are they so damned eager to have an unqualified dumbass running their country?

  8. 8.

    Tony J

    Perhaps I’m being overly dramatic here, but a Palin presidency and the end of the world are inextricably linked in my mind.

    It would be like that bit from my imaginary Director’s Cut of Terminator, where it was finally explained what event convinced Skynet that the human race was too dangerous for it to be allowed to survive.

  9. 9.

    JR

    One time Christopher Walken shook her hand and foresaw something horrific. He won’t talk about it now, but I can tell it weighs on him…

  10. 10.

    anonevent

    The more you bring up signs of the end times, the more the Evangelicals will get excited.

  12. 12.

    Rathskeller

    I think it’s more narrowly focused than that. They’re saying if she is nominated, then that would be a clear sign that the GOP is lost as a national party. The Know-nothings in the middle of the 19th century were able to do little more than tear apart a national party, and perhaps that is what the Palinista movement will do, after a troubling time.

  15. 15.

    Zifnab

    Perhaps I’m being overly dramatic here, but a Palin presidency and the end of the world are inextricably linked in my mind.

    After eight years of Bush, I’m confident we could suffer through a term of Palin. Odds are she’d quit before the end of the year, on account’a governing being such a chore and all.

    The worst of the Bush years came out of DeLay and Frist, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Ashcroft, and Cheney. Giving those yahoos the keys to the kingdom again is what really scares me. But put Bush/Palin in office with guys like Gates and Rice and Powell at his side, and I’m betting he’d get a lot of brush cleared and that’s about it.

    Keep in mind that before 9/11, people were already calling Bush a lame duck. As an administrator, Palin simply doesn’t know how to get anything done. The GOP needs everyone to jump on board the fail train with them, or they can’t get any serious bullshit out the door.

    It’s worth keeping in mind that the worst sins of the Bush Administration – Iraq, tax cuts, the Patriot Act – all had Democrat co-sponsors.

  16. 16.

    Tony J

    Can you think of some clever word or phrase combining “apocalypse” with the words “Sarah Palin” or words associated with Sarah Palin?

    “I can see Machu Picchu from my house!”

  20. 20.

    Beauzeaux

    @RedKitten:

    You wouldn’t want some unqualified dumbass performing brain surgery on you, so why are they so damned eager to have an unqualified dumbass running their country?

    My guess is that there is a significant faction in the Republican party that likes have personable, telegenic dumbasses for President because (1) they are easy to control, and (2) it makes it less likely that the people who are actually running things behind the scenes are less likely to get caught.

    I think two of the last three Republican presidents were chosen by party leaders for exactly those reasons.

  22. 22.

    snabby

    Can you think of some clever word or phrase combining “apocalypse” with the words “Sarah Palin” or words associated with Sarah Palin? You guys are good at this stuff.

    What comes to my mind is “Apocalypstic on a pitbull.”

  26. 26.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Zifnab:

    After eight years of Bush, I’m confident we could suffer through a term of Palin.

    I feel like you are substantially downplaying the gigantic downgrade in mental facilities from Bush to Palin. And if you don’t think there’s a big difference there, well then, that should be even more concerning to you.

  31. 31.

    gbear

    Alsocalypse? That’s all I got.

    Except for that ‘Speak My Language’ is a song title on Minneapolis band Fine Art’s first album (I think it came out in ’78).

  33. 33.

    Warren Terra

    Wasillapocalypse, mentioned above (more or less0 is a possibility …

    Maybe Sarahgeddon?

  34. 34.

    MikeJ

    My guess is that there is a significant faction in the Republican party that likes have personable, telegenic dumbasses for President because (1) they are easy to control, and (2) it makes it less likely that the people who are actually running things behind the scenes are less likely to get caught.

    They also reinforce the idea that government can’t do anything right.

  35. 35.

    Timothy S

    Last week, the TV series Supernatural had Palin presiding over the US during the (literal) Apocalypse, which was good for a laugh.

  41. 41.

    AaronLaperle

    eh, all i got is “I can see the apocalypse from my house.”

    Or maybe something about Death riding a Pale(in) Horse, but the imagery there is a little to…mrrr….

  46. 46.

    The Golux

    This doesn’t have anything to do with apocalypstick-on-a-pig, but in terms of wordplay, Roger Angell of the New Yorker (and palindromist extraordinaire) came up with this beaut:

    All I saw: Wasilla.

  54. 54.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Warren Terra: Sarahgeddon gets my vote. Here, on BJ, not in a real election… not to say that things happening here aren’t real… especially elections and votes and stuff. Uhh… Vote for Bitsy. Also.

  55. 55.

    flukebucket

    It’s worth keeping in mind that the worst sins of the Bush Administration – Iraq, tax cuts, the Patriot Act – all had Democrat co-sponsors.

    Keeping that in mind is essential to understanding where we are and where we are going.

  57. 57.

    Penfold

    @dadanarchist:

    Fnord?

    Perhaps I’m being overly dramatic here, but a Palin presidency and the end of the world are inextricably linked in my mind.

    Only to the extent that it would be less the end of the world and more another nail in the coffin of US power and domestic stability.

    @Zifnab:

    I agree with you that Palin in and of herself would be ineffectual, but then that’s how a lot of people felt about Dubya. (Incidentally, this was true of my Republicans friends as well. They thought/said, “How much damage can he do with the party apparatus keepign him in line?” They expected more of a Daddy Bush redux than what we got.)

    Both are strictly true, but what are theyodds that we WON’T get more powerful, determined enabling loons in VP and cabinet positions? I’m inclined to think it would end badly. All the more so as the Dems will most likely lose seats in the midterms and if an incumbent gets booted, they’ll probably lose seats during 2012 as well. Then, as you pointed out, there are remaining Dems who will happily collaborate in whatever the administration is up to.

  59. 59.

    Bordo

    Sarahgeddon is brilliant.

    I can offer only a lousy limerick:

    “With a smile and a wink she did capture
    “Conservative hearts that beat faster
    “For a snowbilly chick
    “With the brains of a hick
    “‘Cause she’s likely to bring on the Rapture”

  60. 60.

    Bordo

    Sarahgeddon is brilliant.

    I can offer only a lousy limerick:

    “With a smile and a wink she did capture
    “Conservative hearts that beat faster
    “For a snowbilly chick
    “With the brains of a hick
    “‘Cause she’s likely to bring on the Rapture”

  62. 62.

    Bordo

    Sarahgeddon is brilliant.

    I can offer only a lousy limerick:

    “With a smile and a wink she did capture
    “Conservative hearts that beat faster
    “For a snowbilly chick
    “With the brains of a hick
    “‘Cause she’s likely to bring on the Rapture”

  65. 65.

    Scruffy McSnufflepuss

    At her inauguration, she will wink, and the starbursts we see will augur the nuclear weapons starbursts that will rain down on us all a mere two weeks later.

    The good news is, she will no longer have to see Russia from her house. It will not be there anymore. The bad news is, neither will Alaska, or any other identifiable geopolitical unit.

  70. 70.

    CT Voter

    Sarahgeddon is perfect.

    Only thing I could come up with was Sarah Palinapocalypse, but that just makes me think of colonoscopies for some reason.

  71. 71.

    DonkeyKong

    With the “Big Bang” the Universe was created and with the “Big Betcha” the Universe will end. Alpha to Sarahmega.

  73. 73.

    Citizen_X

    I’m sorry, but none of you can match the apocalyptic terror of the phrase, “President Sarah Palin.”

  77. 77.

    Skippy

    The Moosewoman of the Apocalypse.

    My first thought was Pitbull with Apocalypstick. Also. But I was beaten to it.

  83. 83.

    Svensker

    @DonkeyKong:

    Alpha to Sarahmega.

    I get where you were trying to go there, but it sounds a bit too much like “smegma”. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  86. 86.

    Svensker

    And may I just say that there are many brilliant minds among us. The coffee spewed across my monitor is a testament to y’all.

  90. 90.

    neil

    I guess someone else’s answer is pretty close to my preferred “you-betchalypse”.

    Barracudalypse?

    Winkocalypse?

  93. 93.

    Mike G

    You wouldn’t want some unqualified dumbass performing brain surgery on you, so why are they so damned eager to have an unqualified dumbass running their country?

    If you’re a Repig, you think of the presidency as an unquestionable, infallible semi-diety, a magical figurehead whose primary qualification should be making you feel good about your various group identities and giving simpleton-slogan-packed speeches; being able to perform executive duties is almost irrelevant.

    It reminds me of something I read about a meeting of corporate CEOs in 2004. When asked who they were voting for, three quarters put their hands up for Bush. When asked would they hire Bush as CEO of their company, not a single hand in the room was raised.

  96. 96.

    Penfold

    For some reasons one of my previous comments is in moderation hell, and it does not include any forbidden words like sockalism.

    Anyway.

    @mclaren:

    The tale of RagnaGOP, mayhap?

  99. 99.

    Omnes Omnibus

    The answer can be found in Palin’s own words:

    “All of ’em, any of ’em that have been in front of me over all these years.”

    Also.

  101. 101.

    Michael

    Going OT, but this was too rich not to share.

    At Conservapedia, they’re rewriting the New Testament to take liberal concepts out.


    http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

    I don’t know if this is real or just some outstanding performance art/street theater, but I’m laughing my ass off.

    The earliest, most authentic manuscripts lack this verse set forth at Luke 23:34:[7]

    Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

    Is this a liberal corruption of the original? This does not appear in any other Gospel, and the simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing. This quotation is a favorite of liberals but should not appear in a conservative Bible.

    There are other gems.

    Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story

    Their problems with the tale are funny – from the internal link:

    http://conservapedia.com/Adulteress_story

    Amid this scholarship, why is the emphasis on this passage increasing? The answer lies in its liberal message: do not criticize or punish immoral conduct unless you are perfect yourself. Liberals cite this passage to oppose the death penalty, a misuse that has been criticized.[8] But one need not be perfect before he can recognize wrongdoing in himself. The Mosaic laws clearly state death as a punishment for sin. So the argument that an individual must be perfect is not relevant. The God-ordained government has the responsibility for punishment. Civilized society may not depend on stoning to deter immoral crimes, but it does depend on retribution enforced by people who are themselves sinners.

  102. 102.

    Rommie

    And Toonces could drive a car. It doesn’t mean I want him driving the Presidental Limo.

  109. 109.

    glasseater

    got a few here:

    apocahockeymom
    wheredotheygoitsalaskatastrophe
    whenputinrearshisheadisaster
    alsotootastrophe

    and on and on…

  110. 110.

    Penfold

    @Rommie:

    And Toonces could drive a car. It doesn’t mean I want him driving the Presidental Limo.

    I think I’d rather have him in the West Wing than Palin. Sign me up for Toonces/Church Lady 2012!

  111. 111.

    Shinobi

    Apalincalypse?

    Though I really like Apocalypstic on a pitbull.

    Also, I can’t believe John, and John Weaver and Steve Schmidt are SO SEXIST! How dare they say that the first female president would bring about the end of the universe as we know it. They clearly don’t respect women at all. /thingsweknowsomerepublicanwillsayanyminutenow

  112. 112.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Everybody else took all the good ones already, so I’ll go with however it is that you say “Fall of the American Empire” in Mandarin.

  114. 114.

    geg6

    @Zifnab:

    Keep in mind that before 9/11, people were already calling Bush a lame duck. As an administrator, Palin simply doesn’t know how to get anything done. The GOP needs everyone to jump on board the fail train with them, or they can’t get any serious bullshit out the door.

    You know, this is kinda what a lot of my friends were saying to me back in 2000 when the Shrub was selected. Not to worry! they said. Yes, he’s an idiot, but he’s got pros like Cheney helping him along!

    No thanks. I didn’t fall for it then and I’m not falling for it now.

  116. 116.

    Shinobi

    Oh yeah, Doug is sexist too, for not being named John and making my comment make more sense. (I miss you edit!)

  117. 117.

    Skippy

    I imagine the conversation went something like this:

    Steve Schmidt: This nation is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
    Reporter: What do you mean, “biblical”?
    John Weaver: What I mean is Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff.
    Steve Schmidt: Exactly.
    John Weaver: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Global warming!
    Steve Schmidt: Forty years of Democratic rule! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
    John Weaver: The dead rising voting from the grave!
    Steve Schmidt: Human sacrifice, Republicans and Democrats living together… mass hysteria!

    This is excellent news for John McCain.

  118. 118.

    Ecks

    votes:

    1) Sarahgeddon

    2) Apocalipstick.

    3) Appocolypse also

    (can’t believe nobody came up with Palocolypse)

  119. 119.

    ppcli

    @Michael:

    Well, they’re fools and all, but the inauthenticity of the “woman taken in adultery” story is pretty well-recognized among Biblical scholars.

  122. 122.

    Penfold

    Palin loves the biblical stuff. What about The Revelation of Saint Ronald?

    “Saying with a loud voice, ‘Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made Wasilla, and NASCAR, and fossil fuels, and tax cuts for the wealthy, and Real Merika.’ ”

    “And I looked, and behold a pale moose: and her name that sat on him was Palin, and Hell followed with her. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with insurance premiums, and with TEAM AMERICA FUCK YEAH.”

  124. 124.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SiubhanDuinne: (I see I was late to this particular game!)

    Note to self: Read all posts before weighing in. Someone probably had your bright idea earlier.

  125. 125.

    ppcli

    Nobody has suggested “aphockeylipse”, (which will presumably take place on the “Ragnarink”) so I’ll add it, even though it is pretty lame compared to Sarageddon. Also it actually sounds like it would be fun.

  127. 127.

    Bobby Thomson

    DougJ, you do realize Schmidt and others aren’t talking about an apocalypse for the nation, right? They’re talking about an apocalypse for something more important to them, the Republican party. They don’t fear a Palin presidency because they rightly assume the chances of one happening are shitty. They fear a Palin nomination.

  128. 128.

    GReynoldsCT00

    I have the edit buttons when I log on from my mac at home using Safari, but not so from the office using a PC and Firefox…

  130. 130.

    Penfold

    @geg6:

    Generally speaking ditto. See: @Penfold:

    I must admit neither I nor my friends on the opposite end of the political spectrum really thought he would do the amount of damage he did. But you know, fooled me once and all that.

  131. 131.

    MikeJ

    At Conservapedia, they’re rewriting the New Testament to take liberal concepts out.

    Are they going to include the naked man in the garden with Jesus?

  133. 133.

    daryljfontaine

    Sarah Palin’s Peddleocalypse.

    Do anything for money
    Do anything for money
    Do anything for money
    Do anything for money
    Do anything for money
    Sarah!
    Palin!
    Sarah!
    Palin!
    Too! Also! You! Betcha!
    SARAH PALIN!
     
    Levi Johnston, dumber than a tree
    Husband Todd wants everything for free
    Bristol Butterface Butterface Butterface
    Willow Track Trig Piper ding dong doodily doo
    PRESIDENT PALIN!

    Shit, I think I just frightened myself a little.

    D

  134. 134.

    Makewi

    The way you guys are obsessed over Sarah Palin is a little creepy. She lost the election, but you won’t be happy until you have completely destroyed her. I don’t get it.

  137. 137.

    DougJ

    The way you guys are obsessed over Sarah Palin is a little creepy. She lost the election, but you won’t be happy until you have completely destroyed her. I don’t get it.

    Too spoofy.

  138. 138.

    Ash Can

    @Michael: Yeah, I bitched about this on the last thread. It was inevitable, these guys taking over for God himself. And I’m sure that their credentials in ancient Middle Eastern languages are beyond reproach, so that they’re able to identify every last one of the mistranslations that Biblical scholars have been putting in the Bible over the centuries.

    As for Weaver and Schmidt wailing about the prospect of Palin getting the nomination, WTF? Did these geniuses just wake up from a two-year coma or something? Who was running McCain’s presidential campaign, their body doubles? Do they have evil twins who bound and gagged them and locked them in closets for the duration of the campaign, and they just got out now? The shitheels responsible for dumping Sarah Fucking Palin on us in the first place are worried about her winning the 2012 nomination?

    You know how these two assholes could impress me? If they were to somehow argue convincingly that they should not rightfully get their asses kicked from one coast to the other and back again. With nail-studded boots.

  139. 139.

    Bubblegum Tate

    So much win in this thread. I vote, in order:

    1) Apocalypse Also (I think at the very least this should become a tag for posts related to Palin’s presidential run)

    2) Apocalipstick on a pitbull

    3) Catastropalin

    The only thing I can add to the proceedings is to change “Behold a pale horse” to “Behold a pale moose.”

  140. 140.

    Calouste

    @scav:

    I think a more accurate definition of a sarahpalindrome would be a speech that makes as little sense forward as it makes backwards.

    It’s the difference between the assumption that it is all a load of gibberish and the assumption that it is all some fantastic wordsmithing (people have written palidromic novels).

  142. 142.

    Drew

    Alaskalypse. (Or Alaska Lypse, as a term for S.P. herself)
    Snowmobile riders of the apocalypse.
    Alsopocalypse.
    Ride a Palin horse. (Behold, a Palin horse. On a Palin horse. He rides a Palin horse. etc…)

  143. 143.

    Common Sense

    I can see Armageddon from my house.

    Lipstick on an AntiChrist

    The Four Moosemen of the Apocalypse.

  144. 144.

    Michael Sheridan

    @Makewi: We aren’t the ones who started this particular conversation – certain (temporarily sane) GOP folks are the ones worried that the Mayans might be right.

    Actually, nobody here really cares about Palin. But, since the only remaining Republican principle seems to be, “If it angers libruls, we should be for it!”, we’re just happy to do our bit in maintaining the fiction that Palin drives us crazy. If it means Sarahgeddon runs in 2012 to remind the country how batshit insane the GOP has become, it’s a win for us even if she doesn’t get the nomination.

  149. 149.

    Midnight Marauder

    @DougJ:

    Too spoofy.

    Isn’t this the 10th time or so in the past week you’ve made a comment like this regarding Makewi’s posting? At what point does it become a feature and not a bug?

  150. 150.

    WyldPiratd

    There should be a BJ Hall of Fame thread and this one should be the inaugural inductee.
    thanks for the laughs, folks.

  154. 154.

    DougJ

    Isn’t this the 10th time or so in the past week you’ve made a comment like this regarding Makewi’s posting? At what point does it become a feature and not a bug?

    I don’t like it when he writes the obvious spoof. It’s lazy of him, he’s kind of phoning it in on those comments.

  157. 157.

    JGabriel

    I’m with the others who suggested the portmanteau “Sarahpocalypse”, though I would take ruemara’s cue and drop the “h”.

    “Sarapocalypse” just reads better, somehow.

    .

  159. 159.

    alex milstein

    Nice of McCain’s people to come to that realization NOW. Of course when they thought it could help McCain they were right behind her.

    Yet, perhaps it was a good thing they were, because if a serious veep candidate had run, we might be living under President McCain right now.

  161. 161.

    Chad N Freude

    @Makewi: She needs no help from us on that score. She does fine all by herself.
    Wait … You mean we have the power to destroy people??? Wow. Who knew?

  163. 163.

    Makewi

    @Chad N Freude:

    I guess this is one of those cultural differences that I just don’t understand. I don’t understand the level of dislike, and why 9 months after the election she is still the target of scorn.

    Seriously, someone explain it to me.

  166. 166.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Makewi:

    I guess this is one of those cultural differences that I just don’t understand. I don’t understand the level of dislike, and why 9 months after the election she is still the target of scorn.

    Seriously, someone explain it to me.

    Death panels.

    You’re also pretending that she hasn’t done anything new in the past 9 months that would cause such another round of fresh “scorn” to be heaped upon her.

  168. 168.

    Chad N Freude

    why 9 months after the election she is still the target of scorn.

    Seriously, someone explain it to me.

    The trolliest comment in I don’t know how long.

  175. 175.

    Ash Can

    @Will: I don’t care what the consensus turns out to be. This one is by far and away my favorite, and I’m going to rip it off shamelessly.

  179. 179.

    raptusregaliter

    Here’s some of the relevant verses (with updates) from Revelation 16:

    And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Sarahgeddon. (16)

    And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the Wasilla air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. Also. (17)

    And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and sparkles; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And, you know, mighty. So mighty. You betcha. (18)

    That’s all I got so far. Here are the last three verses of Rev. 16 if somebody wants to have at them. I’ve gotta go…

    And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. (19)

    And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. (20)

    And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. (21)

  181. 181.

    Chad N Freude

    @Makewi: Sorry, dude, but with her proving not to be a quitter by quitting, spreading the death panel meme, not showing up for Republican events where she was expected, her garbled speeches, her unbelievably awful (and garbled) Op-Ed in the WSJ, and her public catfight with Levi Johnston, it seemed like troll seduction to me. Apology, for real.

  182. 182.

    Lavocat

    How about anagrams of Sarah Palin?

    Here are seven that come to mind:

    1 Anal Parish;
    2 A Rash Plan I (my second favorite);
    3 A Sharp Nail;
    4 Has Anal Rip;
    5 Has Iran Pal;
    6 Lash Iran, Pa!; &
    7 Sharia Plan (my favorite).

    John McCain’s running mate? Has Iran Pal who has a Sharia Plan.

  184. 184.

    Makewi

    @Chad N Freude:

    OK, no worries. I mostly missed all that, except for the death panels bit which momentarily registered due to being related to a current policy debate.

  185. 185.

    fishbane

    I guess this is one of those cultural differences that I just don’t understand. I don’t understand the level of dislike, and why 9 months after the election she is still the target of scorn.
    Seriously, someone explain it to me.

    If you’re serious, it must be cultural. Because she’s just fucking hilarious and frightening in equal measure.

  188. 188.

    fishbane

    Not exactly directly topical, but I just noticed that “Pharasee Sarah P” is a Palin-drome. Yeah, I had to misspell it, but she wouldn’t spell it right, also.

    I always become aware of the fact that I really, really have got to finish my work for the day when I become distracted with palindromes.

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    srv

    Apalinlypto?

    We really need to start a numerology thing, is Sarah the antichrist? Like her birthday being 2/11/64 = 666, or the names of her kids.

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    Jebediah

    @Makewi:

    For me, it is because she is a malicious, dishonest, ignorant moron who refuses to go away.
    If keeping our attention on her means the rightards nominate her thinking we fear her, bonus! Also.

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    cs

    My late entry for the alliteration fangirls…

    Palinpocalypse

    Shiny, eh?

    I’m feeling nihilistic enough tonight to almost want to see a Palin presidency first hand. The sheer absurdity of it would almost certainly outweigh the tragedy. To have a president who could not match wits with Katie Couric would be the nice comic ending of our country’s often irrational storyline.

  194. 194.

    Penfold

    @Jeff Berardi:

    The problem for conservatives has never been liberal translations but the danger of reading more than a few dozen preselected verses.

    Thank you sir!

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    gg

    Lots of good suggestions! To remind people of another classic, I will add:

    “Apocalypse in what respect, Charlie?”

  203. 203.

    LanceThruster

    @Drew:

    Don’t think I ever heard her refer to them as snowmobiles so wouldn’t it be “The Four Snowmachinemen of the Apocalypse”?

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    FearItself

    The first thing I thought of was ” I beheld a pale moose…” but a bunch of you got there first. I’d go with that.

  205. 205.

    AlanDownunder

    I always liked the palindrone as a term for her hubby, and I can see the palinocons supplanting the neocons as successors to the paleocons, but sorry – nothing apocalypse-related comes to mind.

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    General Winfield Stuck

    “The Four Snowmachinemen of the Apocalypse”?

    Or, The Four Moose of the Apocalypse

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    Redshift

    If it’s the end of the world we’re talking about, then I like Sarahpocalypse, but if we’re talking about Weaver’s “political apocalypse,” then I’d go with GOPocalypse.

    (But I guess that one is actually a lot broader. So many signs of the GOPocalypse…)

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    RareSanity

    Dammit…too busy at work today to join in. But, just for the record, I submit:

    Apocalypse, Also: The Palend of Times.

  212. 212.

    General Winfield Stuck

    The Front Porch of the Apocalypse (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love Russia)

    fashionably lame, eh?

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    Steeplejack

    @Drew:

    Alsopocalypse.

    Got here late, was hoping no one would have gotten in ahead of me with what I thought was the obvious winner, but you nailed it. Well played, sir.

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    dadanarchist

    @AlanDownunder: I always liked the palindrone as a term for her hubby

    At first I thought you wrote Palindrome, which is of course a.) a type of word of which Palin has absolutely no idea; and b.) a hellish and sadistic arena where godless liberals will serve out their remaining miserable days following Sarahgeddon…

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    Macayla's Little Friend

    @chrome agnomen:
    That’s even fun to say.
    And as “a palingularity”, could be used frequently these days.
    Also fun – fifth hit when I googled “singularity” and “meaning”:
    http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Singularity/
    “A palingularity is a black hole in the reactionary worldview whose density is so intense that no light can be shed on what lies behind it.”

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    Gravenstone

    @RedKitten:

    You wouldn’t want some unqualified dumbass performing brain surgery on you, so why are they so damned eager to have an unqualified dumbass running their country?

    /applauds

    Seriously, you have such a wonderful ability to distill the essence of the thing into one well crafted phrase. I nominate this as the 2009 successor to “I can see the moon from my house, but that doesn’t make me a fucking astronaut.”

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    tofubo

    get aboard the you betcha cruise and aerial wolf hunt, organized by the national review online and townhall.com, parah sailin’ to the apocalypse, hitting every iceberg on the way to victory in 2012, too. also.

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    Svensker

    @dadanarchist:

    b.) a hellish and sadistic arena where godless liberals will serve out their remaining miserable days following Sarahgeddon…

    No, that would be the Palin-dome.

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