“Run the cover. It's got legs.”

Can’t you just hear Newsweek cackling, as they comp’ed their cover? Rubbing their hands together with that Mad Scientist laugh. The gall. The genius. The great debate they were about to run with.

A show of hands of those who think it’s right—and those who just left Newsweek’s readership forever. Personally, I sat with the image many days and came to the conclusion that it’s right on.

Let’s face it, Sarah’s a big girl, she’s been around the block a lap or two, and her women’s intuition maybe should have gone off the second she cocked her head just right, threw a little hip out and gave that sexy Runner’s World leg pose. “Hmmm,  this could be taken out of context? Get repurposed? The press could run wild with this?” Thoughts of Perez Hilton, perky Katie Couric and Newsweek should have raced through her presidential head.

Don’t be pulling a beauty queen Prejean on us, the “but I only intended it for so and so.”

Remember Obama’s hot bod beach shot on the Washingtonian? Sexist? He owned it, I think.  As should she.

Hey, I don’t hate her because she’s a Hunter and I’m a Veggie, or because she can see Russia and I can only see Catalina, or even because of her kill ‘em with kindness Prejean-like smile (the new duo) when she’s sticking it to the media—right now I’m just annoyed that’s she’s got better legs than me and I can’t even get to the gym when I press myself to do so.

You betcha I like the cover.

How ‘bout you? “Dislike” her because she’s beautiful? Because she ran away from her term? Because she left those kids on the trail and is now toting them on her book tour? Or just because she’s a little right wing crazy and went rogue on such a good guy like McCain? Or maybe you love her. Speak your mind. Everyone’s free to do so, right?