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[danielmn]

Left wing media lies, Fluff!!! Powell can't side with the Dems! IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY BY THE JE....oh wait, I can't say that...V might get offended.

[Vaelahr]

Isn't that right, that anyone who isn't on McCain's side has a liberal bias they can't rise above?

Who says that?

Left wing media lies, Fluff!!! Powell can't side with the Dems! IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY BY THE JE....oh wait, I can't say that...V might get offended.

[Moderated.]

Please....when it comes to edgy humor, y'all just can't hang!

[Vaelahr]

Anyway.... fire away Noah. I won't be offended by a joke concerning Jews, Jesuits, or what have you. All is fair game. Even Danubus' epilepsy.

And Mr. Four... check your inbox, hon.

[danielmn]

I was thinking JEALOUS DEMO-WANKERS, but I didn't want to offend anyone....your own biasis are yours.

[Vaelahr]

LIP-READING LULZ!!1!!1

[Moderated.]

[Mulu]

I'm surprised that hasn't been moderated.

Anyway, I thought this was funny, though I doubt it's going to make much of a splash in the current climate.

Politico went through the financial report the RNC just filed with the FEC and discovered that the Republican National Committee has spent $150,000 for clothes and accessories for Sarah Palin since she was tapped for the VP slot in late August. One shopping trip to Neiman Marcus cost them $75,062.63, for example. They also spent over $4700 on her hair and makeup. Remember how the Republicans howled at John Edwards $400 haircut (which included a house call by the barber)? Google for: Edwards "$400 haircut" and you'll get 27,000 hits. That was major news for a week. That aside, a far more damaging effect of this revelation is that Palin keeps saying she is just an ordinary small-town hockey mom. It is likely that if Joe-the-plumber's wife were to rack up $150,000 in clothing expenses in a single month, Joe might ask how she was planning to pay the credit card bill since the median annual salary for plumbers is $37,514. Palin is already being ridiculed all over the place, and this provides more fodder for the comics.

Oh, two Palin moments in one day!

Also, Palin says if she and husband Todd had had a sixth child, they have already picked a name for a boy joining siblings Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig.

"I always wanted a son named Zamboni," she said.

[MorbidKate]

Well well... Joe Six-pack, animal killer & hockey mom who's coming to clean up the excesses of Washington drops $150,000 on new clothes from campaign donations? WTF?! I wonder how that's playing in small town "Real America"?

And seriously, think she was planning to give it all away to charity had it not been uncovered? NOT! Maybe she should have used some of her $125,000 income as Governor to buy some of her own gear and at least try to stay on message.

Too funny.

Kate

[Mulu]

Well, and how is she going to donate the $20k spent on make-up artistry that was applied to her face? I think the IRS is going to call that "taxable income."

[Veilan]

She's John Edwards now?

[MorbidKate]

Somehow I don't think that $400 haircut came from campaign donations. Even though he paid out of pocket he was grilled by the Republicans. Of course that doesn't even register a heartbeat in comparison to a $150,000 elitist shopping spree so I guess she'd fit in around Washington just finel.

Kate

[Mulu]

Guess this story does have legs. 100,000 of them according to Google.

What's the difference between Sarah Palin and a pit bull?

Lipstick and $150,000 worth of designer clothes.

[Vaelahr]

So now we learn that the RNC shelled out $150,000 for clothing, hair, and make-up for Sarah Palin since her surprise nomination. Scandal! Gotcha! Such hypocrisy! If she wants the Joe Six-pack vote, the "logic" goes, why isn't she wearing clothes from Target? Huh? While everyone seems to get that Palin had to have an emergency make-over for prime time, this particular number offends — as does the fact that she didn't pay for it herself.

Was a new wardrobe neccessary? Clearly. Last winter, when she posed for Vogue, Governor Palin wore a big, army green parka, (partly to hide her pregnancy), which looked great — but perhaps not entirely vice presidential. No one wears that sort of thing to, say, National Security Council meetings in D.C. In pre-September pictures, she wears inexpensive, perfectly appropriate but not ready for prime-time black suits, or the kind of outdoor clothing that Alaskans, and others who spend a lot of time in harsh elements, require. Her biggest sartorial luxury seems to have been fancy running shoes, as she told the Wall Street Journal weekend section, just before being nominated.

But then, a few days before Labor Day, lightening hit. The governor of Alaska turned into a vice-presidential candidate, who had to show up in front of the nation for the next 60 days, several times a day, always looking camera-ready, and impeccably turned out. She also had to project that new, somewhat amorphous thing: female power. We, as a nation, have not yet been led by a woman, and we aren't sure what it looks like. It will, of course, vary from woman to woman, depending on her personal needs and style, but not so much. Can't be too sexy, too severe, or too casual. For sure it requires perfectly fitted, constructed jackets, with a serious shoulder line, in good quality fabrics. Nowhere are those cheap. Palin had to look at least as good as the women we see on TV all the time. You may not realize it, but you don't see Katie Couric or Diane Sawyer or any of the on-camera female talent at the networks, CNN or Fox in off-the-rack stuff from Macy's. It is all upscale designer stuff, and at the low end it costs a couple of thousand per outfit. Always. Hair and make-up is done, professionally, any time you see them, at the cost of much time and money. That is the visual standard women at the upper end of politics must meet. Condoleezza Rice, who needed to project power, figured it out. Others have not. If Palin hadn't bothered with any of it, we would have heard about that too.

Had she been a creature of Washington, Palin would have had closet full of suits, unexciting, perhaps, but appropriate. Had she been a former First Lady running for president, whose husband has raked in $109 million in the last 8 years, she could have called Oscar de la Renta, and and had him come for a fitting. He did well with Hillary's jewel-toned pantsuits, (at a few grand a pop?). She might already have collected some of those great Gurhan necklaces, which accentuated Hillary's suits all election season. (Look up for yourself what they cost.) Were she Speaker of the House, and the wealthiest Democratic lawmaker, she could have called Georgio Armani himself — and worn the Pelosi pearls that cost more than the Palin's house.

Instead, she had zero time and no personal fortune. And she faced the terrible hurdle of being young and attractive — the very sort of woman who most desperately needs wardrobe cues to make her look authoritative. If she had had to pay for it herself, she could not have run. The bill would have been ruinous to a genuinely middle class person. So the GOP did what it had to do in order to put a non-rich woman on a national ticket. Whatever one thinks of the choice — and I am a supporter — it's nice to see that someone was thinking about the details. The difference between Palin at the announcement in Dayton, and Palin at the convention was a subtle but impressive transformation. Subtle always costs more. As a sometime GOP donor, I begrudge her none of it.

Speaking of clothes....

In Philadelphia, a group of Obamaniacs (champions of tolerance and diversity, of course) show up at Sarah Palin's visit wearing this:






Cute! Change we can believe in, right?

Was it reported? No, of course not. Would it have been reported if a group showed up at an Obama-visit wearing similar attire addressing Michelle Obama?.....

[MorbidKate]

Oh poor Sarah, no money and no time to shop. Jebus, the woman makes $125,000 a year and used $150,000 in party donations to go buy the most expensive stuff she could lay her mitts on. It's a friggin embarrassment as her own actions undercut everything she's been spinning since the nomination. If I was handling her I would have tipped pro-Palin reporters and had her "spotted" shopping at JC Penney on some other reasonable store that showed her to be fiscally "in-touch" with middle-class voters and have her pay for the clothes out of pocket. Media would have eaten it up.

Instead she just sabotaged herself by letting her own personal wants get the best of her and ignored how it may play down the line... again.

Of course, the funniest thing is hearing all the usual suspects who attacked Edwards for using his own money to pay for an expensive haircut now rush to defend Palin. It's a PR disaster.

Kate

[Mulu]

On the campaign trail, Ms. Palin is always impeccably turned out, sometime changing jackets, high heels and hairstyles twice or three times a day.

“As a Republican Eagle and a maxed-out contributor to McCain’s general campaign, I’d like my money back – he can still have my vote,” complained one irate donor on Wednesday.