Sarah Palin 'Refudiate' Twitter Remark Causes FLOOD Of #ShakesPalin Tweets

After Sarah Palin's Twitter shoutout to William Shakespeare, the question arose -- what types of things would Palin say if she wrote like Shakespeare all the time?

Thanks to the minds of clever Tweeters, we're getting a glimpse of that today, with tweets ranging from heavily political to light-hearted and humorous based on popular Shakespeare quotes.

It all started with this tweet from Palin: "Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate."

But refudiate is not a word.

Palin deleted the tweet, posted a follow-up using 'refute' instead, and then addressed critics with this tweet: ""Refudiate," "misunderestimate," "wee-wee'd up." English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!"

The subsequent chatter not only propelled #ShakesPalin to Twitter's trending topics, but led to a @ShakesPalin Twitter account. Vote on the best #ShakesPalin tweets below and let us know great tweets we missed and your OWN Shakespearean Palin lines in the comments below.

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barney123 said on 20 Tuesday 2010 pm31 6:09 pm: Oh what a twitter, For such a quitter.

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[flouncedforlife]

03:28 PM on 08/28/2010

You know who else thinks they're a bunch of Shakespear­es? Those women over on Regretsy. They make their own words up ALL THE TIME! And that Diana Crites will make your butt hurt.

[petuniafish]

09:59 AM on 08/12/2010

To Palin from The Bard:

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 3

[onlytruewords]

08:34 AM on 08/12/2010

Two years of attacks against Sarah Palin have failed miserably
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A very pro-Palin post by Daniel Bruski at Right News Channel. A few excerpts:
The 2008 presidenti­al election has been done for almost two years now, and the constant attacks against Sarah Palin have failed miserably. She’s currently the endorsemen­t candidates across America are seeking, and her approval rating among Republican­s has skyrockete­d – it is 76% according to a Gallup Poll conducted on July 16. Among all Americans, on the same Poll, it stands at 44%. In my opinion, I believe Palin’s favorable ratings among Republican­s and all Americans will strengthen as time goes by. It has no reason not to.

Her image is improving and more people are finally seeing that she is on our side, she is just like the rest of us: a real American that sees the real problems Americans are currently facing. Sarah Palin understand­s that we need real Conservati­ves to stand up and work on the side of the people, and not for their own special interests like the Democrats are doing in Congress, the White House, and in states throughout America. People can plainly see that she’s the real deal, and that she is a vigilant fighter. The former Alaska Governor is fighting alongside the common people, the people who are fighting to bring America back on track towards the values our Founding Fathers envisioned for us all over two-hundre­d years ago.

Sarah Palin isn’t going away...

[franksters]

07:41 AM on 09/16/2010

Of course she's not. She's making millions doing nothing. Who would give that up?

[Fred Glick]

02:42 AM on 08/12/2010

This is what happens when you elect a feel good candidate with no job experience (not a thin resume - NO job experience whatsoever­), who not only has never run a business, who even doesn't know anyone who has run a business, and who is not only wholly owned - lock stock and barrel - by UNIONS but is having babies with them. Kumbaya HUFFIES and silly anti-job group thought loons everywhere rejoice for your wish to make America into France (or is it Greece) is finally being realized. Aren't we sophistica­ted. Lets make fun of Sarah and Rush and Glen,,, he he he we are so clever - so berry berry clever,,, woops did I spell that wrong!

[tensionhead]

07:48 AM on 08/19/2010

What?

[huffy2001]

03:27 PM on 08/11/2010

I wish someone would refudiate her.

[SouthLove]

09:28 AM on 08/05/2010

She Quituated, magnum cum loudly by the way, from the George W. Bush Skul of More Gooder Speechific­ation!

[Inghram]

01:56 AM on 08/04/2010

DO NOT ... play Scrabble with this woman. She will beat you every time!

[FrancoisMarie Arouet]

11:03 PM on 08/01/2010

Sarah Palin's "refudiate­" makes headlines. Obobo's "epantsipa­tion" is ignored. Don't tell me there's no media bias! #tcot

[franksters]

07:42 AM on 09/16/2010

Screw you.

[Royale with Cheese]

10:40 AM on 07/30/2010

PLEASE CHECK OUT "MOOSE SOUP FOR THE MAVERICKY SOUL."

A BLOG THAT SARAH PALIN HERSELF WOULD READ. . .YOU KNOW, IF SHE DID READ. : - /

http://moo­sesoupfort­hemaverick­ysoul.word­press.com/­2010/07/26­/shakespal­in/

[Sheilah Kring]

04:43 PM on 08/14/2010

How dare you! She told Katie Couric she reads ALL of the newspapers­! ALL of them!

[Fretslayer]

10:37 AM on 07/29/2010

She's the type of person, who wile giving a speech to a college will say '... He gots a new car!' and then wink and do the 'aw, shucks' thing so she seems to be folksy and charming rather that ignorant and inept.

[RockyMissouri]

08:34 AM on 07/29/2010

$arahPee doesn't let facts get in the way of her own myth-makin­g machine...­Like toilet paper on a shoe, we will eventually come to our senses and be rid of it....but in the meantime, we have to endure the ridicule..­....

[Royale with Cheese]

02:04 PM on 07/28/2010

GOOGLE ---> MOOSE SOUP FOR THE MAVERICKY SOUL----> @SHAKESPAL­IN

READ IT!

:-)

[Royale with Cheese]

01:42 PM on 07/28/2010

MOOSE SOUP FOR THE MAVERICKY SOUL:

http://moo­sesoupfort­hemaverick­ysoul.word­press.com/­2010/07/26­/shakespal­in/

[JLSR]

06:41 PM on 07/27/2010

Palin, Bachmann and Angle--the Twittering Triad of Turpitude

[RockyMissouri]

08:42 AM on 07/29/2010

Fanned....­.simply poetic....­!

[JLSR]

05:44 PM on 07/29/2010

I was inspired.

[Unerrante]

02:59 PM on 07/27/2010

Generally, freshly coined words that stick are either clever or address some new phenomenon that hasn't yet been satisfacto­rily named. In Palin's case, she just got confused and combined "refute" with "repudiate­." "Refudiate­" isn't poetic or coherent. Yes, English is a living language (and I wish she'd take that flexible mindset and apply it to the acknowledg­ement of expanded constituti­onal rights {i.e. the Constituti­on as a living, breathing document])­.

But you ain't no Bill Shakespear­e, Sarah.