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Romney spent $300 on makeup 'consulting'
The Politico ^
| July 16, 2007
| Kenneth P. Vogel
Posted on 07/16/2007 10:50:48 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: Ken H
No barber shops for 45 years, I wonder how much I’ve saved.
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posted on
07/17/2007 12:07:21 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: gpapa
So freeking what. I spend more on a date just to get lucky,
and I don't even shave first. /$300. BAH!
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posted on
07/17/2007 12:09:59 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(God Bless America)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I pay about $15 for a no frills haircut, including the tip I throw in. That's about $180/year.
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posted on
07/17/2007 12:36:26 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: thefactor
Romney-Edwards 2008
The Hair Team
To: gpapa
“...What kinds of things do you think of when you hear “communications consulting”?...”
Applying lipstick to a pig?
To: gpapa
They never mentioned Kerry’s botox.
Nor the silky pony’s - or the fact that silky pony pays over $400.00 for a haircut.
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posted on
07/17/2007 1:59:13 AM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: Vigilanteman
Clintons haircut cost more. So did Edwards shampoo. Then, theres Hillarys face lift . . . And Kerry's Botox... and Uncle Albert's orange rouge....
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posted on
07/17/2007 2:34:58 AM PDT
by
Lil'freeper
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To: gpapa
$300 in payments$150 x 2 = $300. Reasonable price for a service that makes housecalls.
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posted on
07/17/2007 4:06:19 AM PDT
by
elli1
To: gpapa
You get what you pay for. Let’s face it, the dude has great hair!
Whoa! Someone call the homosexual-police! I think we have a wolf in sheep’s clothing!
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posted on
07/17/2007 5:58:38 AM PDT
by
jootz
To: gpapa
If you consider the amount of money that public figures need to spend on speech coaches, demographic research, tailoring, etc., $300 sounds like a pretty shrewd investment if you ask me.
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posted on
07/17/2007 6:17:44 AM PDT
by
Huber
(And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. - John 1:5)
To: jootz
I’m guessing that you have never had to appear on camera.
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posted on
07/17/2007 6:21:57 AM PDT
by
Huber
(And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. - John 1:5)
To: gpapa
From the gossip rag the has brought us eight — and counting — articles on John Edwards' haircut, we have more critical news!
Does anyone know where we can find a working press? Ours is broken.
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posted on
07/17/2007 9:40:28 AM PDT
by
Mr. Know It All
(Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem)
To: gpapa
At least Romney is straight, whereas the Breck girl is of indeterminate gender, lol.
To: gpapa
When a consultant makes a call they charge a minimum — usually 4 hours. That makes it $75.00 per hour — cheap!
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posted on
07/17/2007 12:02:54 PM PDT
by
Beckwith
(dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
To: restornu
restornu, the point is that Mitt paid for a haircut and makeup job and called it “communications consulting” rather than a haircut and makeup job, perhaps to dodge Edwards-like criticism.
Not as bad as taking money from the American Museum Council but even if the bowl aint as big the flavor is the same.
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posted on
07/18/2007 6:09:42 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: DBrow; gpapa; SteveMcKing; Tamar1973; Vigilanteman; elli1
restornu, the point is that Mitt paid for a haircut and makeup job and called it communications consulting rather than a haircut and makeup job, perhaps to dodge Edwards-like criticism. Not as bad as taking money from the American Museum Council but even if the bowl aint as big the flavor is the same.
So he hired experts to advice him what's with you people
You are showing your ignorance this is what they call it in the field of Presentation "Communications Consulting" those who appear on TV and give speeches it is all part of the package.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:32:45 AM PDT
by
restornu
(I never said I did not accept Fred, I just pointed out that Fredheads lives in a glass houses too.)
To: gpapa
I agree, this is seemingly trivial, but it was silly of Mitt to let this show up on traceable campaign documents. If he really felt he needed makeup advice, he should have been smart enough to have paid the lousy three big ones out of his own pocket as a personal expense, as it would have been for any of the rest of us.
Has he been unaware of the drubbing that Edwards takes for his own beauty expenses? I would think that the "I Feel Pretty" YouTube video of Edwards primping would be used at least once a week by all Republican candidates' staffs as a tension reliever!
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:59:12 AM PDT
by
hunter112
(Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things.)
To: hunter112
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posted on
07/18/2007 10:15:18 AM PDT
by
restornu
(I never said I did not accept Fred, I just pointed out that Fredheads lives in a glass houses too.)
To: restornu
It’s actually pretty clever on Mitt’s part. He knows full well that if he got a $300 haircut he’d be compared to Edwards, so he tried to cover the expense in another way. So it came out anyway, and the media is trying to make it look like Mitt was trying to hide a $300 haircut (which, I think, he was).
People in the public eye frequently spend big bucks on appearance- even Edwards does not deserve to be criticized (Clinton was too). I agree with you on that, anybody whose job it is to be in public does (or should do, Dennis Kucinich!) the same thing. I bet Jay Leno spends more than $300 per week on hair and makeup. When I give a talk at a university or present a paper at a conference I at least get a trim (if Kerry was going to be in the audience I’d get a manicure too).
Since it is so common, though, there is no reason to attempt to obfuscate the issues.
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posted on
07/18/2007 10:18:24 AM PDT
by
DBrow
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