Challenge: Prime Minister of Canada, Sarah Palin

[Blue Max]

I've got it!

Sarah Palin is institutionalized for going mentally insane. She still has memories of her past life, so she has an office where she is president. But she is no longer of sound mind, and so she winds up...Prime Minister of Canada...in her own delusions.

This sad state of affairs is aired on TV by a mean spirited media, which creates the meme.

 

[MarkWhittington]

Here's a slightly semi-serious fullfillment of the challenge. John McCain is elected President in 2008, takes the oath of office in January, and then dies of a heart attack in February. That makes Sarah Palin President of the United States and David Letterman, Jon Stewert, and Bill Mahr very unhappy indeed.

Meawhile Quebec suddenly decides to secceed from Canada, leading to the other proviences, one by one, to break away and apply for entry into the Union.

That doesn't make Cudah Prime Minister of Canada, but she is nevertheless now in charge of most of what used to be Canada.

 

[Doctor What]

Here's a slightly semi-serious fullfillment of the challenge. John McCain is elected President in 2008, takes the oath of office in January, and then dies of a heart attack in February. That makes Sarah Palin President of the United States and David Letterman, Jon Stewert, and Bill Mahr very unhappy indeed.

Meawhile Quebec suddenly decides to secceed from Canada, leading to the other proviences, one by one, to break away and apply for entry into the Union.

That doesn't make Cudah Prime Minister of Canada, but she is nevertheless now in charge of most of what used to be Canada.

I swear to god, if I read one more 'Quebec seperates and then every province in Canada joins the US 17 minutes later' post by an American, I will personally track down the poster who wrote it and beat them over the head with a frozen otter.

 

[Coyote Knight]

I swear to god, if I read one more 'Quebec seperates and then every province in Canada joins the US 17 minutes later' post by an American, I will personally track down the poster who wrote it and beat them over the head with a frozen otter.

Haven't you heard? We Canadians are not patriotic and secretly want to be American.

Like jeez, guys. We argue with eachother in Canada because A) we got too much money so we fight over who gets it/needs it the most and B) we have nothing better to do. We just have our shit that together.

 

[Dan Reilly The Great]

Here's one that nobody has thought of yet:


Sarah's idiot husband and his cronies succeed in getting the majority of Alaskans to support secession. In the ensuing war Alaskan rebels somehow manage to hold out long enough to get the US government to give up and pack it in resulting in a sovereign Alaskan nation. Pro US extremists carry out terrorist attacks in Alaska, then the fighting with the extremists spills over into canada, the Alaskan military invades canada to root out the rebels, the canadian government gets fed up with this and declares war on Alaska. As a result of this and some other factors (economic recession, terrorist attacks, etc.) results in the Canadians shifting more to the right. After a couple years of fighting Alaska is defeated and annexed by canada. Ten years later the Canadian citizen Sarah Palin is elected prime minister.


Now I know this is pretty much ASB, but it doesn't require the populace of an entire nation to suddenly go insane overnight, plus alaskan secession from the US seems somewhat more realistic than all of canada suddenly being annexed by the US. Plus in the time it takes for such events to transpire perhaps the former beauty queen may learn to use logic when making decisions and seem like a reasonable candidate.

 

[Onyx]

Sarah Palin.............Prime Minister of a country that has more sanity than us?

*Cocks Gun to Forehead*

It's the War of 1812 all over again...............

 

[Venusian Si]

But, Jeez! I'm willing to bet that most Europeans, and educated people in most of the world-- let's say, in the countries that bought our fraudulent investments, just to draw a line-- know gobs more about us than the average US college graduate knows about all their countries put together.

Well Duh, it's easy to know a lot about a single country (Especially one like the U.S. that gets tons of publicity), then to know the details of dozens of Countries like you propose. Still, I agree that ignorance is more of a problem in the U.S., then say Japan, or France.

 

[dreadnought jenkins]

I swear to god, if I read one more 'Quebec seperates and then every province in Canada joins the US 17 minutes later' post by an American, I will personally track down the poster who wrote it and beat them over the head with a frozen otter.

Please Doctor What, don't leave me and Zyzzyva out of this as well. Us and the rest of the Canadians want a piece of them too.

 

[Coyote Knight]

Sarah Palin.............Prime Minister of a country that has more sanity than us?

*Cocks Gun to Forehead*

It's the War of 1812 all over again...............

I laughed so hard at this...

 

[Coyote Knight]

Well Duh, it's easy to know a lot about a single country (Especially one like the U.S. that gets tons of publicity), then to know the details of dozens of Countries like you propose. Still, I agree that ignorance is more of a problem in the U.S., then say Japan, or France.

I dunno man, the French and Japanese can be pretty damn ignorant at times. A buddy of mine's cousin was in Japan and has a youtube video of him talking to locals at a restaurant of how he had to fight off a polar bear once in Toronto. Everyone bought it. Including the nearby fellow tourists. The British can also be terribly ignorant I find.

While you can find ignorance in all countries, I`d say the worst culprits are Britain, America and France with honourable mention to Japan and Australia.

On a lighter note, I find Germans and Singaporeans (go figure) to be the most knowledgeable of other people's countries and cultures in my experience.

 

[Fleetlord]

heh, sorry Canadians. Just daydreaming a way that we could be rid of her. Although, Imagine what it would be like if she was born and raised in Alberta. So, Canada does not deserve Sarah Palin, because they are a good people. Which country can we send her too?

Well, she was actually born in Idaho, before her folks moved to Alaska -- not sure why they moved, but I suppose it's plausible that they end up in the other cold, oil producing part of North America. And I don't think Canada has a "native-born" restriction on the PMship.

Of course, alt-Palin would probably be further left than her OTL counterpart, at least publicly, if she were to be successful in Canadian politics -- maybe she'd revive the Conservative Party in this TL, in place of Harper.

 

[MNP]

Well, she was actually born in Idaho, before her folks moved to Alaska -- not sure why they moved, but I suppose it's plausible that they end up in the other cold, oil producing part of North America. And I don't think Canada has a "native-born" restriction on the PMship.

They moved to Alaska so her dad could get better employment opportunities. Just have a really REALLY good job open up in Alberta and there you go. Sarah as Palin is probably gone though, I don't think she'd have met Todd. So, Sarah Tucker? Marries Darcy Tucker, Right Wing hockey player? yes I know it has nothing to do with politics, but he is the only person I know from Alberta!

See ya Bristol, Track, Willow, Piper and Trig.

 

[esl]

Actually Canada does not deserve Sarah Palin as their leader. No country so obssessed with beer, hockey, socialism, and anti Americanism could. (g)

Ok well just as long as its in that order...."MORE PALE ALE OVER HERE....PLEASE"!!!

 

[Standard X]

Well for starters Sarah's parents Chuck and Sarah Heath move to Vancouver British Columbia in 1963 (her dad got a teaching job at one of the high schools) and February 11, 1964 their daughter Sarah is born. But here's the rub, as she was born and raised in British Columbia Canada. So as a result, she never lived in Alaska and never met Todd Palin and therefore she will not be known as Sarah Palin.

 

[RogueBeaver]

Actually, we've already had a Sarah Palin in the form of Kim Campbell, also from BC. Even if Mulroney had stepped down in 1991 she'd have lost. A lot more intelligent, Red Toryish and educated than Palin. But still politically hopeless.

 

[Standard X]

Actually, we've already had a Sarah Palin in the form of Kim Campbell, also from BC. Even if Mulroney had stepped down in 1991 she'd have lost. A lot more intelligent, Red Toryish and educated than Palin. But still politically hopeless.

How did I know you were going to say that, LOL!

 

[RogueBeaver]

"An election campaign is no time to discuss serious issues"- PM Campbell

 

[RGB]

"An election campaign is no time to discuss serious issues"- PM Campbell

And somebody put her on the "influential women of the century list" too. Sigh.

 

[Standard X]

Here's the political resume of Ms Sarah Heath of Victoria BC:

1993-1999 Member of the City Council of Victoria

1999-2004 Mayor of the City of Victoria

2003 Helped bring about (along with Stephen Harper and Pete MacKay) the merger of the Canadian Alliance Party with the Progressive Conservative Party to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

June 2004-Present MP for the Riding of the City of Victoria

Feb. 2006-Oct. 2008 Minister of Western Economic Diversification

Oct. 2008-Present Minister of Intergovernmetal Affairs and President of the Queen's Privy Council

She's not PM yet but she's slowly working her way up to the top. Sometime in the next decade she will succed Harper as leader of the Conservative Party and eventually become PM of Canada.