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making a decision where the only motivation is political gain that completely backfires and destroys a politician’s reputation. Named for Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. The word is a colloquialism based on the English word "impaling" and can be used with or without an apostrophe signifying the dropped final "g."
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