The Turkey Trot to Nowhere.
Was she inspired by the intrepid runners of Ketchikan Alaska? They ran the infamous “Road to Nowhere” this summer on the access road that got built anyway, despite the fact that the even more infamous “Bridge to Nowhere never” happened. “Why waste a perfectly good road in the middle of nothing?” they thought So they ran. There was no particular distance goal. They just quit whenever they felt like it. It seemed fitting.
So Thanksgiving morning, in Washington state, Sarah Palin participated in the Kennewick “Turkey Trot,” a 5k run that is traditionally held on the morning of the holiday. Fans came from miles around to flock to the race site to catch a glimpse of their favorite conservative icon, pushing a double stroller down the road. They waved, they cheered, they lined the route with cell phones. The ones who really wanted a good shot hung out at the finish line. Bad plan.
However, she didn’t finish the race, opting to leave the course early to avoid more crowds at the end. About 40 minutes into the run, people gathered at the finish line to get more pictures of Palin started to learn that she was gone.
Yes, she quit 40 minutes in, leaving on purpose to avoid the adoring masses at the finish line.
Towards the end of the race, the officers asked Palin what she wanted to do. Palin decided to divert off the course and head back to their cars so the family could get to their Thanksgiving dinner, Pitts said.
Race time? 8:55am. But no worries. You can stand out in the cold again to wait for Palin. She’ll be signing books at the Hastings bookstore Sunday at noon. No word about how long the event will last.
Todd Palin fans will be disappointed. He opted to spend Thanksgiving at home in Wasilla “fixing the roof.” I wonder if he’ll ever have a book…
40 minutes into the run and she quits???? C’mon…it was only a 5K. My eleven year old finished a 5K in less than that. How long has she been running?
Once a quitter…always a quitter.
No pardons for the Quitter Queen!
that girl has lost her mind
Once a quitter, always a quitter.
OOps libby you beat me to it.
Hey, she accomplished her goal! She got her photo op in and used the double stroller to a) reinforce her image as mommy extraordinaire and b) an excuse to not really run.
It may look like quitting, but she was actually progressing Thanksgiving to Quiznos, you meanie opposition researchers! /s
It was stupid of her to have even contemplating doing the run from the very beginning.
In NormalLand, people know tours are grueling, traveling takes a toll on the body, even if done in fairly luxurious conditions. Anyone with a functioning brain would know that it would be important for them on T-day to, if given the opportunity, sleep in, get some rest. And to drag children and family members along and deprive them of their sleep, is really pretty selfish.
You’d think with a disclosed $1.25 mil from the book that Sarah could have forked out for someone to cater a nice T-day meal so Aunt Sally wouldn’t have to do all that hard work, but no, Quizno’s it is, after we don’t finish the run.
I am SOOOOOOO thankful I am not in that family. Thank you God, thank you, thank you!
Clearly there was no financial gain to completing the race so she quit.
$P’s excuse about Dud has kept the Beatles’ song “Fixing a Hole” in my mind, so let me pay it forward:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10vU7Qo-NlU
Especially apt are the opening words: “I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in, and stops my mind from wondering where it will go…”
sorry
getting very cynical about SP
just another photo op
she likes pics of herself
and the quitter thingy ?
she got what she wanted, so why go on?
Pretty ironic.
But then, The Irony™ is completely lost on Sarah and her fans.
Well, now she is bringing Jesus into her act. She is featured on Billy Graham’s website.
http://www.billygraham.org/News_Article.asp?ArticleID=730
what an effing quitter. Sheesh, she just needs to tattoo a big “L” on her forehead
Hmm… and using a double as a stand-in for Bristol… again… (seems there is a you-tube out there with glimpse of ‘Bristol’ and ‘Willow’ – except ‘Bristol’ turns out to be the niece that stood-in for her before – different nose, different hair, etc.)
From Bree’s blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZecV-sjELU
(at 0:25, 1:06, 1:40)
why did she have to leave early to get the Thanksgiving dinner on it’s way when they all ate at Quiznos (sp?)
if her minions would get a brain..
Sarah P. preferred to leave all those waiting with their cameras to catch her cross the finish line (I’m sure they sacrificed their time for opportunity ) to eat a Sub Sandwich
I say she was starting to crack and couldn’t maintain the smiley always happy and “perky” (shes so jealous of perky women because that should be her, and her only) upbeat perfect politician/mom/wife/athlete , ect…
so she cut it short
Quizznos (sp??) really translates to she wants to get “alone” time with just herself so she can unwinde and rewire for the next event
Something tells me if she ate that at all.. it wasn’t with her family
She probably spent the most Pro American Holiday of all alone in her room laying out outfits and booking a hair appointment
Quiznos = low maintenance kindof gal
When she makes a point of being one sort of way it means she is really the opposite
Instead of being low maintenance eating a sub she is really being high maintenance in her lavish room picking out a lipstick shade for the next book signing
so dang transparent
After 40 mins she hadn’t finished a 5K yet? I must be one of those liberal elite runners.
“fixing the roof” must be you refer to “officially separated” in Alaska.
Oh did you hear about Bob and Marge……..yessss…………Bob’s “fixin’ the roof”……ohhhhhhh………..well that’s too bad.
If this was a charity run, did she represent sponsors who were donating money for her milage? If so, she’s shown her true character once again – me, me, me not a dime or a fig for those less fortunate. So sad.
POOR Sarah – according to her fans, she cannot get any privacy anymore. Cannot even run, which she loves, because people will “hound” her – her being so famous and being a leader and all. Nevermind that SHE put word out on her FB and twitter that she would be there “FORGET the Red Cross! Come see ME ME ME ME ME!” “WAIT! Leave my kids alone!” And in the pee zoo, there were a couple of folks questioning why Todd was not there – they got slammed and chastised quickly – you see, “they do not have to be attached at the hip – it is obvious they have a strong marriage and are sooooo devoted to each other.”
Yep. It’ll be interesting to see them turn on Todd when the whole marriage sham blows up – if I were he, I would be contacting Tank Jones. Not kidding – the menfolk will be lining up to protect scarah, with delusions about being the next Mr. Sarah Palin.
Was there anything in that double stroller? And how did it stand up to that torrid 20 minute mile pace? LOL
I hope someone got pictures of her quitting on her run to nowhere….that Sarah Palin, she’s a real “hoot”!
Who is the pushy jerk of a guy in the video?The loudmouthed one who even physically pushes Sarah at one point?He seems on very familiar terms with her.
What’s to wonder? It was the “lame duck” part of the race that wouldn’t produce anything but expectations FROM her, and who has time for that “giving back” part of anything?
Come on!
She must have come up lame at the precise point that she could make a sneaky getaway and still have the rest of the day to do whatever she had planned to do all along, like checking the sales of the thing she called a book. “OMG, I hope it sells enough so I don’t have to give anything back.”
She never disappoints…will always do the selfish thing and continue to make a low class fool of herself.
Todd was probably home installing the cameras on the roof of the Pie Spy headquarters that will be used to skim money off the top of programs for the elderly…all perfectly legal someone told her…also.
She avoided her fans. SHE AVOIDED HER FANS! How long will it take before her fans get tired of her leaving them in the lurch?
Most fans start revolting on their idols when they are continually snubbed and avoided.
When you consider all of the news today:
Black Friday Shopping – how will the economy do?
Obama’s first State dinner which was very nice except for the crashers,
Tiger Woods in a bad car accident, in the hospital today,
President Obama pushes HUNDREDS of lobbyists off of Federal Advisory Boards,
After all of the crap the President got for going to Asia, China announced new emission control targets,
Military divorces edge up again in 9th year of war – -
AND STILL Sarah Palin manages to get her face in the news, by quitting a 5k run and fleeing from her fans.
If I were a praying woman, I would pray that her fans would wake up and decide they were sick of being treated badly. I guess someone is going to have to die of exposure or pneumonia waiting to catch a glimpse of her before the backlash begins within the ranks of the adoring.
Perhaps she quit early due to a frivolous ethics complaint that she had put her sponsors’ money in her pocket. LOL.
Glad Levi declined her “invitation” for Thanksgivng dinner.
An 8 hour trip for a Quizno’s sub would be a bummer.
Some of you have no doubt seen the speculation that the “bus tour” is really a “Franklin Graham jet tour …
http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2009/11/bus-tour-that-isnt.html
So is she riding the bus for these legs?
11/30: Richland, WA – Hastings Books, 1425 George Washington Way, (509) 946-1060 (Link) Richland to Tempe, Arizona. 19 hours 56 minutes / 1268.00 miles
12/01: Tempe, AZ – Costco, 1445 W Elliot Rd, Tempe, AZ, 11 AM (Link) Tempe to Roswell 8 hours 54 minutes / 567.61 miles
hmmm 9 hour trip between events that are 6 hours apart. Better drive fast.
12/01: Roswell, NM – Hastings Books Music & Videos, 1705 N Main St, Roswell, NM, 5 PM Roswell to Springfield 11 hours 38 minutes / 755.47 miles
12/02: Springfield, MO – Borders Books and Music, 3300 S. Glenstone Ave, 10 AM (Link) Springfield to Fayetteville 2 hours 24 minutes / 147.81 miles
12/03: Fayetteville, AR – Sam’s Club, 3081 North Highway 112 at I-540, exit 66, 11 AM (Link) Fayetteville to Norman 3 hours 50 minutes / 243.79 miles
12/03: Norman, OK – Hastings Books Music & Videos, 2300 W Main St, Norman, OK, 7 PM (Link) Norman to Dallas 3 hours 5 minutes / 189.22 miles
12/04: Dallas, TX – Legacy Books, 7300 Dallas Parkway, Plano, 11AM – 2 PM (Link) Dallas to Ft. Hood 2 hours 38 minutes / 160.23 miles
12/04: Fort Hood, TX, AAFES Main Exchange, Building 50004, Clear Creek Rd, 76544 7 PM (Link) Fort Hood to Fairfax 23 hours 2 minutes / 1474.89 miles
Quite the drive. That.
12/05: Fairfax, VA – BJ’s, 13053 Fair Lakes Shopping Center, 22033, 11 AM (Link) Fairfax to Sioux City 19 hours 28 minutes / 1216.81 miles
Wow another long drive.
12/06: Sioux City, IA – Barnes & Noble, Southern Hills Mall, 4400 Sergeant Rd, 12 Noon` (Link) Sioux City to Sioux Falls 1 hour 22 minutes / 86.59 miles
12/06: Sioux Falls, SD – Barnes & Noble, 3700 West 41st St, Sioux Falls, 6:30 PM (Link) Sioux Falls to Bloomington 3 hours 46 minutes / 228.82 miles
12/07: Bloomington, MN – Barnes & Noble, 118 East Broadway Suite 238, Mall of America, 12 Noon (Link) Bloomington to Billings 12 hours 4 minutes / 848.14 miles
12/08: Billings, MT – Borders Books, 2833 King AVE W, 59102, (406) 656-0855, 12 Noon (Link) Billings to CO Springs 8 hours 57 minutes / 621.41 miles
12/08: Colorado Springs, CO – Borders Books, 1710 Briargate Blvd, Chapel Hills Mall, 7 PM (Link) CO Springs to Salt Lake City 8 hours 48 minutes / 604.35 miles
Another one that can’t be done.
12/09: Salt Lake City, UT – Costco, 1818 S 300 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84115, 12 Noon (Link) Salt Lake to Reno 7 hours 17 minutes / 519.02 miles
12/09: Reno, NV – Costco, Building 25 2200 Harvard Way Reno, NV 89502, (775) 689-2200, 7 PM (Link) Reno to Coeur d’Alene 12 hours 53 minutes / 780.51 miles
12/10: Coeur d’Alene, ID – Fred Meyer, 560 W Kathleen Ave, (208) 665-4703 (Link) Coeur d’Alene to Sandpoint 51 minutes / 45.95 miles
12/10: Sandpoint, ID – TBA
The race half run, is a race not won.
The finish line a victory for first or last.
Again before the finish she’s done.
Do you ‘spose she will ever return to Wasilla??? Aren’t some of her children still in AK? I know Tawd is on the roof and all, but I could have sworn she had other children…
Whoa, slow reader today. Book signin’ at Costco? Isn’t that where books go to die?
Schnauzer, your analysis of her itinerary is impressive, but since Sarah sees herself as God, the normal time constraints on travel by humans don’t apply.
At $5000 an hour for the private jet, travel expenses will eat into those book profits pretty fast. Rupert may find Sarah more expensive than his last few wives!
And please don’t pick on Toad. When this old world starts getting him down and people are too much for him to face, he climbs right up to the top of the stairs and all of his cares just drift right into space….. (“Up on the Roof” by Carole King, -originally recorded by the Drifters in 1962).
This woman was on the cover of ‘Runners World”? At best her performance can be given as that of an untrained, casual walker. Not much to look up to here.
I guess the chances of seeing her compete at Mount Marathon next year just isn’t gonna happen: http://www.sewardak.org/news-events/marathon/marathon.htm
So she can run a marathon in “…[3:59:36]…” according to her Runner’s World interview, but hasn’t completed a 5k after 40 minutes? An average runner, not an experienced long distance runner who is out almost every day for 30 minutes, takes about 15 – 20 minutes to complete a 5k.
As to her inability to get privacy I’d like to add a local note here. During the Presidential campaign, President Obama visited Billings, MT. He was scheduled to speak at a local high school in the late morning. In the early hours of that morning YMCA members got a treat, they met their soon to be President who came there to work out. He ran on the treadmill, did some weight workouts. He was low key and polite to all, not wanting to interrupt their workouts. Mrs. Todd Palin could do the same, if she didn’t require adoration.
Does anyone know if Mrs. Todd Palin or her publisher are paying for the police at her book signings or are the communities she’s visiting footing the bill? I ask because I noticed pictures from the Michigan book signing had police officers present.
Hey schnauzer, thanks for posting the updated tour – I didn’t realize it had expanded so much. I thought it would die after T-day but I guess I was wrong. (Or am I??????)
Is Piper going back to school? Will SP send the Little T back home with Bristol, to a warm home with a non-leaky roof where he can go around without pants and shoes and socks and glasses to his heart’s content? Did SP, in fact, call Todd yesterday?
Nothing screams family values like taking a child out of school for an extended period of time for what seems to be no good reason, or having Quizno’s subs on Thanksgiving, without your husband present for what seems to be, out of your own mouth, no good reason. And the photos of Little T out in the cold without being properly dressed … Good God woman! I have probably the least developed maternal instinct of any woman on this planet and what I’ve seen with her interacting with particularly her littlest one, the one who supposedly every day is called a ‘blessed angel’, makes me cringe.
I can’t believe that there will be any decent sized crowd at these things, since I imagine anyone interested in the book had already pre-ordered it, thinking she would not be coming anywhere near them to get it autographed.
Please don’t tell me these people would actually fork out money for a second one just to get her autograph.
( …… I asked you not to tell me that …. Maxwell Smart, “Get Smart”)
Somehow, someway, Limbaugh, Hannity, beck, et al, will find a way to blame her quitting the race on President Obama. I guarantee it.
Incidentally:
1K = 6/10 mile
5K = 3 miles
A slow time for a 5K, a WHOLE 5K, is 10 minutes per mile, or 30 minutes total !
A normal WALKING pace for a WHOLE 5K (even if you ARE pushing a stroller) is 15 minutes per mile, or 45 minutes total !
And she went for 40 minutes and STILL wasn’t done ?!?!
Maybe she should return the money she received for those Runner’s World interviews, because she is absolutly NO runner !!!
@ schnauzer
“So is she riding the bus for these legs?”
OK, let’s put it this way. First, it’s hilarious that she has a bus and perfectly fitting for her image. The bigger the bus, the more people will fit under it when you fling them there. Second, would you ride on a bus with all those poor souls stuck in the undercarriage screaming their lungs out and wanting to claw your eyes out?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep sayin’ it:
How can you tell Sarah Palin is lying? Her eyes are open.
flyinureye – please please please please do a graphic with Sarah’s bus and all the poor brave souls under it being drug through Real Amerika w/ Sarah!
Hey NY Dem – Are you SURE Scarah is not a runner?
She ran out on AK
She ran out on Todd
She ran out of a book signing…
Seems to me that Ms Quitty Pants does do a lot of running!
Terpsichore, the last I looked, there was a boatload of “autographed” copies of $P’s book on eBay, average price, seventy to eighty bucks. Some copies even have that photocopied bookplate pasted in, and they’re called “autographed”! Some of the sellers sat in the cold for twelve hours to get their copies initialed (they tell their stories in the listings), and there are those who are swooning because $P wrote out her whole super-long name in the signature instead of scrawling “$P” with a thick-point Sharpie. Really sad!
OT-Celtic Diva’s post on S’error’s traveling format (plane, no bus for this famous
baby!) has been mentioned/linked at Crooks & Liars: http://crooksandliars.com/.
The word is spreading fast, puppies…!
Well, dontcha all know that she quit after 40 minutes, so she could skip the adoring members who wanted her autograph FOR FREE (i.e. just an autograph, NOT an autograph of her lie-o-graphy. THAT’S WHY she quit! She is all about raking in the $$$$, so she wanted to make money even on the charity run, but was prevented from hawking her book at the end, so she quit (err… excused herself to go use the powder room…)
Do we see a pattern developing here??? She quits everything she starts…. My brother called yesterday afternoon (now I can’t lay claim here I have always said he was the adopted one! We certainly cannot be related by blood…) he drove an hour from his home to “see” S’carah… he and his wife are of the Repug persuasion(another reason I swear he is adopted!) Oh she is so wonderful he said.. I quietly hung up the phone! (of course this is the same “adopted” brother who paid 10K to have his picture taken with GWB (I told you he was adopted!)
Hell, even I could walk the 5 km in under an hour, and I’m old and fat.
LOL Fern…I’m with you!
Ok, so she reminds people she’ll be there, gets there, runs a while then short-cuts outta there. I’m thinking – did she go through all this just so she could speak to a reporter to assure everyone knows Todd’s back home; and he’s not coming because he was fixing the roof?
Kind of like opening a can of worms of speculation. Like, “have you SEEN how Todd isn’t even here with his family?” A pre-meditated scheme to start rumors for bloggers.
It’s all about her image. It doesn’t matter to her that she quit just as long as she had the photo-opt. What all her fans will remember is that she was there and they don’t give a hoot if she quit.
I guess we’d have to settle for a letter from Dr.Cathy to get proof of that sub-4 hour marathon run, huh.
She bailed on the run because that is what she knows how to do…and darn it, at that pace, it was just taking too long to get to the finish line.
Bystander: That’s hilarious.
Ha ha, she’d have run the whole race but she didn’t want to be a lame duck. It’s not like her to just be yer typical politician collecting a pay check, just marking her time on the remaining K of her 5K.
Ha ha…
AKfishergirl: My brother loves her! He’s in college and he stood outside for hours waiting for her. He was one of the ones who got a bracelet and then was told that she was actually going to limit the amount of autographed copies.
The thing is, though, that he doesn’t like her politics. What he likes is the character as portrayed by Tina Fey. He likes her as a piece of satire. I have a feeling that, like, 10 percent of her supporters are like him, mainly the young’uns.
“Gimme a Q!”
“Gimme a U!”
“Gimme an I!”
“Gimme a T!”
“Gimme another T!”
Oh never mind………..
On CNN now is an ad for Newsmax.com which has Sarah Palin’s” runaway best seller for just for 4.95″ with a subscription to Newsmax. Good grief you just can’t get away from her.
Suffice it to say that I will not be waiting in any line hoping that she will sign some book that I just bought. Unless the book is by Alfred Russel Wallace.
Or Steven Jay Gould.
I was just looking up “hopeless” in the dictionary…
Quit a 5k run after 40 minutes….O.K., look at this from a narcissist’s point of view. She can’t really run and get all sweaty and have her hair ruined and her makeup start to run, not good for photo ops, which is why she cut out before the finish line. That and she really was hungry for one of those nasty sandwiches.
Gotta put in some asterisks instead of itches to keep this out of spam-
Reminds me of the lyrics in “Menopause the Musical” to the tune of “The Lion Sleeps Toninght”:
“In his workshop or on the rooftop
my husband spends his day.
In his workshop or on the rooftop
my huband spends his day.
“Weeeee.. We um baum baum away
Weeeee.. We um baum baum away
(Shes a witch, shes a witch,
shes a b , shes a b
Shes a witch, shes a witch,
shes a b , shes a b
Shes a witch, shes a witch,
shes a b , shes a b
Shes a witch, shes a witch,
shes a b , shes a b )”
(Monkey and jungle sounds)
What are the odds out there that Palin will go all “quitty” on her book tour? I suspect by next week or the week after she will discover that this is just WORK and we all know how well she handles “actual responsibilities”. Meanwhile, her children are not in school and Trig is not receiving any therapy, which we can assume he needs to help his development. Do you think she will set up a trust fund for him with all her money, or just expect us tax payers to take care of him? Wouldn’t that be kind of socialist of her?
lol, Kate
I wonder if she’ll start quitting half-way through each autograph she signs? For example: “Sarah P—-”
5K=3.1 miles. 40 min in and she quit short of the finish. 13 min per mile? And she graced the cover of Runner’s World. Some runner, more like a slow walker. It was all the grandkids fault, you betcha.
Not surprised here…she was only there for folks to see her…once they did that, why stay??
On a serious note…the trip plan outlined has me very concerned for the baby…anyone else?…I just know that I could never put my grandkids who are not babies, but under the age of 5 through so much stress as all this travel, changes, feedings etc..especially given the flu out there…and her little baby is just that a baby…and one with special needs…and was that not a photo posted showing him being held in the rain, 42degrees, with no pants or shoes on? why is this not being picked up big time?
Glenda @33 –
Does anyone know if Mrs. Todd Palin or her publisher are paying for the police at her book signings or are the communities she’s visiting footing the bill?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There were members of the Monroe County Sheriff’s office at the signing in Rochester to handle traffic and crowd control. I’d bet that the cost is coming out of my taxes, not the pockets of Murdoch or Palin.
Sarah will undoubtedly maintain her faction but the recordings of her failings, short combing, and lies, in video and by her own hand and own mouth will follow her wherever she goes. They are inescapable. She will be followed the rest of her martyred life by a pile of steaming moose muffins.
She may still somehow finagle her way into a position to run for POTUS, and the shock and awe tactics of her and of the RepoTaliban, birthers, dooms dayers, and teabagging fools might be able to pull it off.
But rationally, I think she has cooked her own goose.
And just in time for Christmas.
How very kind of her.
You betcha.
I know you have some local phrases in Alaska that we Outsiders may not recognize.
Is “fixin’ the roof” anything like ‘hiking the Appalachian Trail’?
I am sure that when Palin recounts this event, she will say she won first place in this 5k, sound correct?
What’s with the twin stroller? Did she fake the birth of twins somewhere between Indiana and Washington? Seriously, she just showed up for the photo opp. She is so fake.
O/T – Andrew Halcro has an excellent post about the “Liar Quitter Queen”.
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/permafrost_friday_the_final_chapter_-_writing_wrongs
38 J-Dog Says:
Hey NY Dem – Are you SURE Scarah is not a runner?
She ran out on AK
She ran out on Todd
She ran out of a book signing…
Seems to me that Ms Quitty Pants does do a lot of running!”
Too right!
And Sarah’s no runner!
I ran for 20 years till my tendons couldn’t take it any more, and I am confident any runner or past runner will agree with me.
Runners don’t quit runs.
It is part of the mentality and the psychology of running.
When you pay the entry fee, get up at an ungodly hour on your day off, maybe drive a couple of hours, to go out into whatever kind of weather happens that day, and wait for the starting gun – you are out there to run the very best you can physically run on that given day.
You don’t want to go home with the feeling that you slacked off.
Whether you are fast or slow, old or young, whether you are a walker or a runner – that is your contract with yourself.
The only way you quit a run, a walk, a bike ride is if you are physically incapable of crossing the finish line.
Non runners think runners are crazy, because they will push themselves, sometimes ’till they collapse and maybe even die, but that is part of the mind set. There will be nothing in reserve when you cross the finish line, even if your are the last one across. The goal is to finish and to finish with your best effort.
Sarah’s just defined her self, again, as a lazy, uncommited quitter to another couple of million Americans who claims to be something she is not.
What!!! She quit a 5K before reaching the finish line? Does this woman ever finish anything? How embarrassing. For years she has been touting herself to be in great shape, an avid runner – Runner’s World material (NOT!). Heck, I’m short, I don’t have a runner’s body, I’m not in great shape, and I can do better than that – I did the Woman’s Walk five years ago, 4 weeks having a total hip replacement, in less time than Palin in this run. I guess after the photo op at the beginning of the race – why stay? All she wanted was to give a speech and have another photo op. She doesn’t want to deal with these people in these small towns, on a one-to-one basis, she considers them to be beneath her, now that she’s a millionaire. She blows smoke up their behinds, and they fall all over her. What losers – all the way around – Palin and her supporters!
Heard that Palin was going to pardon a Quizno sandwich this Thanksgiving.
Xenon, many of the “autographs” $P gives are a big loopy “SP.” You can see this on the news footage of her book events. In fact, sellers of some of the signed copies of her book up for sale on eBay exult that by cracky, she wrote out her whole name, not just the initials! Take a look over there–it’s so…sad.
So SP is goin’ rogue on Thanksgiving!
She touts herself as a real American, a patriot, and high on family values, and doesn’t have a turkey dinner because it’s too much work? Having Quizno’s instead?? Oh, she might have turkey tomorrow….which is NOT Thanksgiving!!!
Amazing!! Do you she think she’s trying to change our holiday traditions???
schnauzer- The book tour is a farce. Please the check the flight history of UJT750 and you will discover the bus is empty. Sarah is flying from one book signing to another by private corporate jet. Her bus trip through Middle America is a farce. Her desire to visit the smaller towns in America works only if there is a nice airport nearby.
Did her widdle hand get tired and she had to quit signing her full name?
How mavericky of her to cheat some folks out of a full autograph.
yes, the race was delayed by her by about 15 mins. And she didn’t finish. Why did she show up? Also, too, she was at our local club – CBRC – and I assume that was to let her public fawn over her. I’m sorry I wasn’t there at the time because I am not a fan and would have let her know it!!
So she opted to be at the very back, huh? Who’s to say she didn’t drop out before the very first turn in the race where no one would notice? After all she didn’t need to run at all, she already got her photo op.
Quitter.
As a runner, I feel cheated and insulted that Sarah Palin, despite not finishing, a 5K she made the runners world cover.
I only appeared once in one of those running magazines, not the cover but a fine print in side the page in 2003, when I did 50K and I came out in the third position.
Runners world is toased by me…… I am going to cancel the subscription Period and none negotiable.
Let me see if I can find one of my running pics, I will share it.
@72 Parah Sail’in
love your name!
Any of youse take a gander at the pictures at the newspaper website? In one of them, a woman has a sign saying “Sarah go Home!” Some big guy is pointing at her. …
Book tour a farce?
Say it ain’t so MO Inkslinger.
I was hoping to get over to Sioux Falls to see the magical bus that can travel at warp speed.
Does anyone remember “A wrinkle in time?”
But yeah I’ve seen the speculation that their are many busses and a jet on loan from Franklin Graham. Quite the piece of work, our little ‘cuda.
Also, has anyone seen Willow? We see and hear about Piper, Trig, Bristol and even Track but Willow?
Could she possibly be in school, where she belongs?
Re schnauzer #25:
Great work! I could use you in my forensic consulting firm. Two buses , maybe? Where are the local airports? They don’t have to be large.
Keep on questioning. The Laws of Physics will lead to the truth!
awww poor baby quit!!! LMBO
@Leenie17 #62,
You are awesome! Perfect comparison — I’m still laughing!
the Book signing at hasting is to last two hours,, noon to 2.00 PM,, and one must produced a sale receipt that the book was bought at Hastings,,
I see Palin still holds the title the QUEEN OF THE ITQUITAROD,,
has she ever finished anything she has started in her life?
So, once again, Sarah quits. Now, if we could just get her to quit making public appearances and posting things on facebook. . . . .
And did the whole family show up to run? I would think that someone could have stayed home to fix a turkey. It’s just not that hard. Or maybe after the turkey people picked on her last year she has bad feelings toward them.
I ended up staying home from our family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday because I was sick. But I don’t quite get Todd staying home to work on the roof when the rest of his family seemed to be in Washington state. That just sounds fishy to me.
Please, has she left the state yet? I feel like we need to do a thorough cleaning of the south central/east part of the state.
The only good thing about her flying from book signing to book signing is that it’s probably better for Trig and Tripp. Both babies are on the trip, right? *more eye rollery*
No doubt $arah thinks “fixin’ the roof” makes Todd sound all manly and stuff, but I think it makes him sound available.
trisha @63. i need a best friend like you. your comments make me laugh til i’m silly.
judi @ 59 – is this the pic where the baby is “dressed” in a red (if memory serves me well) top but no apparent bottoms? that one made me a bit mad because i figured it must be cold — piper was standing there too….wearing a coat.
txindygirl@83 I think so…it was the pic that was posted somewhere on this site..if not here in blog then on forum…oh piper I believe had a scarf on..and it was raining out….so sad
Eh, I’m sitting here all befuddled. I know this is going to sound silly, but here goes: 40 minutes into a 5k? That isn’t called running. Were they crawling? How long do these community 5k’s usually take? Are people still going to be finishing next Thanksgiving? She was in Runner’s World for christ’s sake. Do they know about this?
And what about all her analogies with running a marathon?
She quit 40 minutes in on a 5K? I thought she was a runner? Most seasoned runners can easily finish a 5K in 30 minutes or much much less.
Muuuuch less.
As I was driving up into pennsyltucky coal country today, I heard the Talking Heads on the radio…
“She’s on the road to nowhere,
run Sarah hide. …”
I had all the words whilst the song played, but the absence of David Byrne has removed them from my mind at the moment.
Found this on HP……too funny:
BetterDeadThanRed09
The whole world is a-twitter
Over ex-governor Palin, the Quitter
Yet she forsook
Those who purchased her book,
Now we wish we could only forget her.
But the media puts her in our face:
Look! Now she’s running a race!
With a wink and a smile,
She ran for awhile,
And then quit without leaving a trace.
She was the best that McCain could pick,
To be his Vice-Presidential side-kick.
And the GOP,
Loved this VP to be,
But now she’s making them sick.
So here’s to Governor Quitter:
May we never-ever forget her,
And give her her due,
When she quits right on cue
With her poll numbers’ down in the s_itter