"Pullin' a Palin" Now In The Urban Dictionary

Sarah Palin continues to be a dynamic cultural figure as much as a political one. The Alaska Governor, who announced her impending resignation from office last week, is now the inspiration for a new piece of slang. The phrase, "Pullin' a Palin," is currently defined by urbandictionary.com as:

1. Quitting when the going gets tough; abandoning the responsibility entrusted to you by your neighbors for book advances and to make money on the lecture circuit.

2. Bizarre move that will damn ambitions for higher office.

"I bet when people saw Jade they were convinced that David Caruso was pullin' a Palin."

The entry was filed by the user "No One Likes a Quitter" on Wednesday and actually represents the second Palin-related phrase on the site. "Pull a Palin," which was entered after the 2008 vice presidential debate, is defined by Urban Dictionary as: "To avoid answering questions directly because you don't know the answer, or you don't want the person to [whom you are] talking to knowing the real answer, and talking about another subject you do know something about, or something to flatter or distract the other person, instead."

This type of small-bore snark is good fodder for the partisans. For sober-minded Palin supporters, the worry has to be that the soon-to-be-former governor will be permanently defined as the butt of the political joke.

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Comments

[pennsykid2000]

My favorite new definition is still "Palindrome": a statement that makes as little sense read backwards as forwards.

[ohiodem250]

hahahahahahahaha

[ObamAtomic]

HAHA!

[furryone]

ha!

[DrZee]

Have they added "hikin' the Appalachian trail" yet?
Or just "gone hikin'"?
Or maybe ..."cryin' in Argentina"?
Or how about "Argentinean stimulus package"?

Just playin' with ya....

[TheAntiNixon]

actually they did. a while back.

[blukazoo]

Euphemism for masturbating?

[lisa36]

Good one :)

[Thabit]

So, was Gov Sanford "Pullin a Palin" on the Appalacion Trail ? (and does Todd mind ?)

[forty8r]

Palin these thought come into mind: petty, narrow minded, ignorant, diva, quitter.co­mplainer.

[SouthernYankeeBelle]

Yeah, sounds just like Bush huh?

[tanbo]

JF K Quit.

[LooktotheLeft]

Thank god a few million more people didn't "pull a Palin" last November otherwise.­.... it could'a been, dare I say, attending the G-8 Summitt in place of the old guy who, by now, would've been too winded to make the trip.

And it could have been......­..........­..........­..........

-Berlosconi having to explain to V.P. Palin that the Italy wasn't cut like a boot in honor of the American cowboy and Italy's national dish wasn't named after Domino's Pizza

-Brazil leader having to tell the V.P. that Portugal is NOT the capital of Brazil

-Merkel having to show the V.P. current pictures of Berlin to show her that, despite her objections, the -wall is no longer there

-Putin insisting to the VP that, contrastly, he cannot see Wasilla from Moscow no matter how often he rears his u*gly head

-China's leader having to tell the VP that China's wall is not for the purpose of separating East and West China

-Canada's Prime Minister insisting to the obstinite V.P. that Canada and the U.S. are not separated by the Pacific Ocean

-Sarkozy insisting to the V.P. that is wasn't he who produced "Nalin Palin". But she still didn't believe him

and

-Great Britain having telling the VP that English was not named after tea...that it was the other way around

on the other hand, the VP would've been able to enlighten each leader on everything they needed to know about price slashing at Wal-Mart

[lisa36]

I truly believe if McCain had been elected, Palin would have pulled a Tonya Harding!

[Havnagudtim]

Good call! I can just hear it now:
(sobbing) there's a hole in my waders!! I can't go on!

[judesuper]

Ditto!

[tanbo]

get back to the dishes , Woman

[AbyssinianLion]

Now if we could only get her to use a dictionary.

[LittlePurpleUSA]

And ya'll think she has nothing to contribute. She's in a dictionary now for Zeus' sake!

[meanestdemocrat]

mwuhahahahahahaha

the new 'santorum'

[kittyarmy]

"...the worry has to be that the soon-to-be-former governor will be permanently defined as the butt of the political joke."

Will be? Too late. Try "already."

[2smart2BGOP]

I think she would prefer to be the boob of the political joke.

[rwt1138]

She's actually the boob in the joke,as well as the butt off it.

[trisha08]

Palin Putin: Seeing Russia from you house and stopping Putin from raisin' up by shooting laser beams from your eyeballs.

[MrWinky]

You can find it in the dictionary after "getting Munsoned"

If you saw Kingpin, you'll think that is hilarious

[huffingt]

pullin palin = seeing a foreign country from your porch without spending a dime
Hiking Apa-= Journey to find your soul mate when you have a wife with 4 kids

[Diana Demarest]

Well, there is her higher calling right there.

[roshni]

Quitting her way to the top.