The controversial Newsweek magazine cover, the repost of the Runners’ World Cover, which Sarah Palin is in a huff about.  For what it is worth, I’d prefer the magazine have not gone with that one — the equivalent is something like having the shirtless Obama Beach photograph as the cover, though I don’t think it is all that much offense with it, and I would not put it past them to have such a cover for a feature on — I don’t know, the imaging of the President.

But Palin is in no position to complain.  Here’s the syndrome she has benefitted from:

During the panel, Mattera took the David and Goliath metaphor another perverse step: If conservatives (David) smite liberals (Goliath), they will be rewarded with the hot conservative women, just like King Saul promised his daughter to the warrior who slew the evil giant. “You know his daughter must have been beautiful because there’s no guy whose gonna die for an ugly girl,” Mattera chortled. “Our women are hot. We have Michelle Malkin. Who does the left have, Rachel Maddow? Sorry, I prefer that my women not look like dudes.”

To her credit, Palin kept herself from posing for the “Women of the Conservative Movement” calendar.  But we have seen prominent bloviators and friendly pundits claim Palin as annoying “the Left” because she’s the first “fertile” female politician to reach her heights.

Meanwhile, Palin gave the “conern trolling” about Levi Johnston, worried about the direction he is taking.  I can’t say that as of yet.  A pretty good sign is that he did not go fully naked in his Playgirl shoot.  My thought on Johnston is that forced into the spotlight against his will, forced into the shotgun marriage and into Sarah Palin’s campaign narrative, he’s now cashing in on his 15 minutes of fame.  Whether this is a “bad direction” depends entirely on whether Levi Johnston is aware or blind to the ending of his 15 minutes, and is prepping himself for the post-limelight when he can return fully back to the Real World.  If he is aware, this was the greatest opportunity he could ever have had, theoretically the same would go for his child.

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