If there is one word that that best describes Sarah Palin, it would have to be polarizing. You either like her or you don’t. The Left hated her before the election and they detest her now. Yet Newsweek, the left leaning magazine in desperate need of a cash infusion, has enough sense to capitalize on the most popular & talked about woman in the US.
The sexy front page photo of the best selling author,shows her in running shorts, sneakers, pony tails, brandashing a gun and standing next to the American flag. This is exactly how Newsweek wanted to portray Mrs. Palin. For that matter, it is how they would like to portray successful up & coming conservative women in general - Plain & Ordinary. Yet it is these qualities that attract her to so many Conservatives and middle class Americans. But in Newsweek’s warped thinking, the subliminal message they were projecting with their cover shot was that in order to be taken seriously, you must be seen in a dress or skirt . Any woman that has Presidential aspirations, surely can’t be seen in running shorts. The exception of course being if you are a Liberal Male showing off his pecs & abs while posing for a muscle magazine.
The Liberal Elite simply can’t relate to woman with 5 children who decide to have a career as well. They can’t relate to a woman that chooses to give birth to a handicapped child. They can’t relate to a family with names like Trig, Track, Piper, Willow & Bristol. They can’t relate to a woman that challenges the establishment.
For a woman that commands more attention than any Republican today, it is no wonder that the media onslaught of negative & unfair press never ceases. The abhorrent treatment that Palin is put through on a daily basis from hacks like Bob Schieffer, David Brooks, Andrea Mitchell and others, has not kept the most dangerous woman in politics to the Libs, from continuing to rally conservatives & her base of supporters.
The line of attack on display once again by the lame street media, amounts to nothing more than the same shallow and insignificant nonsense, similar to the one that picked up on what she was wearing and how well you interview with Katie Couric. The focus of the questions is never on policy issues as they know that she will draw a stark contrast to the flawed policies of this current administration. The focus seems to be squarely on gossip issues where they try to depict her as a political light weight.
In her new book, Palin sets the record straight about many issues that she was never allowed to while on the campaign trail and immediately following. This will clean the slate on that part of her career and hopefully start the next chapter in her personal & political career. No one will ever clearly understand the hate coming from the Left when the subject is Sarah Palin. What many have come to understand is that it wasn’t supposed to have been this way. A Conservative woman was not supposed to have been the most talked about and popular woman in politics. This honor was supposed to have been reserved for a Liberal. Maybe Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Kathleen Sebelius or Janet Napolitano.
In the meantime, Mrs. Palin will continue to do what she does best. Raise millions of dollars for solid Conservative & Republican candidates, advocate for energy independence, small government, lower taxes, Pro-Life issues, Gun Rights, Strong Defense, Doctor-Patient Rights, Free markets, Capitalism and love of country.