Actually they were both relevant to the thread, and the first one was relevant to the questions of concern you were posing on the thread.
As thread police, you don’t do very well, go back and look at how you got off the thread and caused so much wasted time and effort.
Of course, an interesting thing to see will be the GOPe response to Palin’s threat, if we can call it that. Will any of them say anything? Rove, or some other surrogate? Maybe the Wall Street Journal, or one of the lesser lights at National Review. Elected Republicans probably won’t say a word.