Posted on 07/17/2011 9:20:06 AM PDT by markomalley
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is gracing the cover of the current issue of Newsweek magazine. As can be expected, she is receiving some criticism — this time over her image. Earlier today, Jonathan Capehart took to The Washington Post’s PostPartisan blog to criticize the 2008 vice-presidential candidate. In making a clear reference to her garb and presence in the cover photo (see right), he writes:
Folks want to be able to envision someone sitting in the Oval Office. They don’t necessarily want to envision them in the pages of Esquire magazine’s “Sexiest Woman Alive 2011” or Maxim. She can’t possibly be taken seriously as a presidential contender dressed like that, especially since this is the second time she has graced Newsweek in a less-than-presidential pose.
(video at link)
Examining Palin’s cover image, one may wonder where the author drew his comparison to Esquire or Maxin from. Capehart also cites the fact that this is the second non-professional outfit Palin has worn on a Newsweek cover (although the image that was used in 2009 was taken for Runner‘s World and used at Newsweek’s discretion; a photographer leaked the images, which Palin lamented. Capehart declines to include this key fact in his post).
He goes on delve into what he calls a more “substantive” critique. He writes that he is “particularly incensed by the lunacy” of Palin‘s take on the nation’s potential default on its debts. In her interview with Newsweek, Palin questioned how severe the situation truly is:
“It is not the apocalypse,” she said, and questioned the need for the urgent negotiating sessions Republicans and Democrats were conducting in search of a debt-limit agreement (ongoing at press time). “The fact is that we have $2.6 trillion in revenue coming in, and if we just use some common sense there—take that revenue, service the debt first, take care of national priorities—we don’t have to increase debt.”
While Capehart accuses Palin of sputtering “nonsense,” he doesn’t spend much time defining his actual issues with her political statements. Instead, he refers readers to a previous post to explain why he thinks her comments constitute insanity. In his other article, which focuses on the nation’s debt, he writes:
Failure to raise the national debt limit is not akin to a government shutdown. Whereas a government shutdown would prevent Social Security checks from being issued until the impasse were resolved, default would stop Social Security checks cold as the federal government moved first to pay the debts it has already incurred with the cash it has or will collect. The damage from a default would be far-reaching and long-lasting.
He concludes his Palin hit piece by targeting her for quitting halfway through her gubernatorial term and questioning why anyone would take her seriously as a leader. Then, he calls Palin’s assertion that she “can win” in 2012 “laughable” and says that she’s a star merely trying to hang on to her fame.
It‘s interesting to see such criticism of a potential presidential candidate’s clothing, considering the praise President Obama has received for his shirtless escapades on the beach. President Bush, too, was known for occasionally sporting “plain folks’” clothing. Is there a difference, here, perhaps due to the fact that Palin is a woman?
Either way, the dig about her garb has little to do with viable disagreements with her policy stances.
So what does it take for a presidential contender to be taken seriously? Click over to The Blog where Meredith offers up more thoughts on this story.
LOL!! And they killed trees for THAT “enlightened revelation”?
She looks good in those Carhartts. Obama wouldn’t even wear them, I’m sure (too blue-collar).
They knew it the first time they saw her.
It's why they go insane every time they think of her.
Sexists.
This gal is gorgeous no matter what she’s wearing. Jealous much?
Now, if they want to knitpick, Michelle FAT Cakes Odumbo is a prime example of how a woman should NEVER look.
Somebody please post the pic of Barry Soetoro smoking a doobie in his pimp hat.
I guess that was presidential.....
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Libtard America, resistance is futile, prepare to be liberated!
For a Fancy Boy he sure isn’t dressed very well.
What they are really saying is “She’s hot and I hate myself for admitting it!”. LOL
That’s about the lamest piece of wishful thinking we’ve seen yet....... maybe if the lefties hold thier collective breath, close thier eyes, and wish really, really hard, Sarah will turn into a pumpkin.......
I don’t know. Ask Freedumb2003.
Capehart is just jealous that Sarah is prettier than him.
Obama dresses like a shoe-shine boy most the time. What a sexist jerk!
She looks gorgous. No different than a man in a polo/golf shirt. Casual look. The dems really are nervous. LOL
And how many pictures have we seen of Barack is just a bathing suit? Then there was the picture of Bill and Hillary walking on the beach, hand in hand.
You have to admit, Sarah is better looking than the others, fully dressed...smarter too.
Is it possible the WaPo may not endorse Palin??
Pray for America
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