TMZ: Palin Explains Speeding Ticket: ‘I Wasn’t Speeding, I Was Qualifying’

Former Alaska gov. Sarah Palin chats with guest at Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto's private fundraiser in East Naples with in East Naples on Thursday April 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Naples Daily News, Scott McIntyre)
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Gossip website TMZ reported on Tuesday that former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was ticketed for speeding in Alaska last week.

She was going 63 miles per hour in a 45 miles per hour zone in her Toyota Tundra, according to TMZ, and will pay a $154 fine.

Her explanation to the site was simple. She said she was listening to Sammy Hagar’s “I Can’t Drive 55” song at the time.

“I wasn’t speeding,” she told TMZ. “I was qualifying.”

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  1. I like that a cop gave her a ticket. That’s awesome.

  2. Of course she uses an out of date NASCAR bumper sticker line. I wouldn’t expect anything else.

  3. I’m having a hard time thinking of anything she’s ever said that wasn’t some sort of a bumper sticker line…

  4. She is clearly and obviously a skoff law. I always suspected that she had NO respect for the Laws of the United States, because she thinks SHE knows better–after all she DOES read every single publication out there daily. All of them.

  5. “I wasn’t speeding,” she told TMZ. “I was qualifying.”

    Certified years ago.

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