The Sarah Palin Newsweek Cover

The Sarah Palin Newsweek cover shows the former Governor of Alaska is in very nice dark shorts and a tight, red top with nice hair, a nice smile, and an American flag nearby. The Sarah Palin Newsweek cover is a declaration of war.

Mind, the original photo ran on the cover of Runners World and contains a small flag with a blue star, representing Sarah Palin's son who is now serving his country in the Middle East. The blue star flag is obscured by the caption: "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?"

The accompanying articles are what one might expect. Sarah Palin is both an air head and a crazed demagogue who will surely sink the GOP is nominated and the country if elected. But the "problem" in this case is not the one stated, but the one deeply felt in newsrooms and political salons across the country.

First, let's look at the choice of the Sarah Palin Newsweek cover. The message is pretty clear. No one who aspires to be a world leader has any business looking like that. Women world leaders need to be old and dowdy, like Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, or Angela Merkel. The simply cannot look as stunning as Sarah Palin, so stunning that she seems to drive people like David Letterman and Chris Matthews quite mad.

The idea that Sarah Palin is just too good looking to be President has more to do with the sexual insecurities of liberals than it does with Sarah Palin.

Mind, male politicians can get away with being good looking. People swooned over JFK's good looks and there are women who dream of being rogered six ways from Sunday by Barack Obama or Bill Clinton. Even the most liberal women, while hating George W. Bush, acknowledged that he looks like the Marlboro Man.

Rampant sexism in the liberal media? As Governor Palin would say, you betcha.

Now add to Sarah Palin's good looks, the fact that she has a successful political career, a ruggedly handsome husband who adores her, a large family, and is conservative and pro life, and we have a package designed to make a certain kind of person crazy.

The "problem" therefore is not that Sarah Palin is going to wreck the GOP (which the liberals at places at Newsweek could care less about) or that she'll wreck the country. Rather the "problem" is that Sarah Palin might just wreck the ascent of liberalism.

She possesses the deadliest Facebook page on the Internet. It was there that Sarah Palin crystallized what is at stake with health care reform with the term "death panels." This outraged liberals, mainly because it unmasked what is really going on. Health care reform is a plot to take away choices of life and death from patients and doctors and give it to the government. That it will do so by raising taxes, cutting services, and increasing regulations is just icing on the cake.

That's why Sarah Palin must be stopped. She has to be turned into a female Dan Quayle before she becomes a female Ronald Reagan. The thought of Sarah Palin, still on the near side of fifty, be sworn in as President is enough to keep the Left awake at night.

Source: Newsweek's gratuitous visual insult to a certain Blue Star Mother, C. K. Macleod, Hot Air, November 15th, 2009; http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/11/15/newsweeks-gratuitous-visual-insult-to-a-certain-blue-star-mother/