If the goin' gets tough, quit your job (even if your the governor of a state), write a book on "how to quit your job when the goin' gets tough", earn rock-star status because you can spread the bullshit with the best of 'em, kill animals on film for pay, watch the Russians from your front porch.
The Palin Effect is unlike any other in modern American life—neither Anna Nicole Smith nor Margaret Chase Smith but a phenomenon all her own. The clouds of tabloid conflict and controversy that swirl around her and her extended clan—the surprise pregnancies, the two-bit blood feuds, the tawdry in-laws and common-law kin caught selling drugs or poaching game—give her family a singular status in the rogues’ gallery of political relatives. By comparison, Billy Carter, Donald Nixon, and Roger Clinton seem like avatars of circumspection.
by Lector Blackraven January 22, 2011
The principal that expertise on a certain subject can be gained through geographical proximity to it
Gov. of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is a proclaimed expert on foreign affairs with Russia due to Alaska`s proximity to Russia and can thus be called the "Sarah Palin Effect"
by Thejuicer September 6, 2008
The idea that individuals who are FEMALE and deemed "pretty" are selected for high level positions or prestigious awards based solely on the fact that they are FEMALE and "pretty". Why else was she picked as John McCain's running-mate?
wtf!!!! Katheryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker won best director and picture?! it was a boring piece of shit movie seen by 5 people, all who are in a coma right now cuz their brains commited suicide after sitting through that lame shit! Well, yeah, it's the Sarah Palin Effect...the directer has a vag and is cute..so of course she would win!
by chocobarfeversohungryrightnow March 9, 2010
Delusional fear of a person that is grossly acted out but vehemently denied. The opposite of the Obama effect.
"I am not going in the ocean, and I am not afraid of it."
"Dude, lose the Sarah Palin Effect and stop shaking, swimming in the ocean is safer than driving a tractor."
"Dude, lose the Sarah Palin Effect and stop shaking, swimming in the ocean is safer than driving a tractor."
by TMink July 8, 2009