Is Sarah Palin sending mixed messages in her Newsweek article?

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | July 11, 2011 | Linda Feldmann

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just when you thought Sarah Palin was fading from view, boom, she’s back. On the cover of Newsweek. Looking distinctly unpresidential in a gray hoodie that says “Edge Fitness,” hands on hips, hair blown back.

In a Newsweek interview, the former governor of Alaska says she believes: that she can win a national election, that the field of GOP hopefuls should be bigger, and that she still has months to decide if she wants to enter. So what will she do? “I’m still thinking about it,” she told Peter J. Boyer.

“I’m not so egotistical as to believe that it has to be me, or it can only be me, to turn things around,” Palin said. “But I do believe that I can win.”

Palin has a ready-made reason not to run – her family. Three of her children are still at home, including three-year-old Trig, who has special needs.

Says Palin: “If it came down to the family just saying, ‘Please, Mom, don’t do this,’ then that would be the deal-killer for me, because your family’s gotta be in it with you.”

We already knew all of that. What’s striking about the Newsweek feature is the photographs – not just the cover, but the two-page inside shot of Palin standing in a field of flowers, hair down, wearing a pink hoodie, hands in the pockets of loose-fitting work pants. It’s the Garden of Sarah.

Maybe the photos are Palin’s way of saying, “I’m not running.” Time was when a politically ambitious woman would agree to be photographed only looking “dressed for success” – usually in a suit, à la Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Newsweek cover earlier this year. Or the way Palin usually dresses on Fox News.(continued)

[PA Engineer]

Bye, bye newbie. IBTZ

They blow up so young these days.

[Salamander]

Moobs.

[Salamander]

I dunno so I sent the dog to find out.

[Salamander]

Spackle and Silly Putty.

[Friendofgeorge]

They also imply that she posed for that photo with a Newsweak Photographer, or had some input of what past photo they would use.

[Arrowhead1952]

[TheOldLady]

H/T Arrowhead1952

Cheeky n00b and PDS sufferer exposes his black heart and gets shoved onto a passing lightning bolt


Re-elect President Palin 2016

[TheOldLady]

[sweep sweep sweep shovel] [scrub scrub rinse rinse]

All cleaned up, Deo!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Thanks! You are so fast! Now this thread is sparkling clean! *hugs TOL*

[TheOldLady]

;-)

[Darksheare]

Ah, megaloditty should have met you so that you two could network your hatin' Palin trash.
Too bad, you're now gone.

But megaloditty is still here!

[Darksheare]

I take it back, he’s now gone.

[GlockLady]

good video:
Putting the pieces of the Palin 2012 puzzle together
http://mrltavern.blogspot.com/
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c30KxbKcfg8&feature=player_embedded