Posted on 10/23/2008 1:20:08 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
When Politico revealed the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 outfitting Sarah Palin and her family after she was picked as John McCain's running mate, one would assume it would be worthy of a brief, snarky story buried on the New York Times's "Caucus" page, filled mostly with anonymous Republicans griping about campaign spending priorities.
But Patrick Healy and Michael Luo's "$150,000 Wardrobe for Palin May Alter Tailor-Made Image" made the front page Thursday morning. (The other major papers had more self-control.) The Times played up what they saw as the hypocritical disconnect between Palin's "Joe-six-pack" appeal and the posh wardrobe from Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Yet Republicans expressed consternation publicly and privately that the shopping sprees on her behalf, which were first reported by Politico, would compromise Ms. Palin's standing as Senator McCain's chief emissary to working-class voters whose salvos at the so-called cultural elite often delight audiences at Republican rallies.
The hard-news Times even compiled an online slide show featuring Palin in various outfits, with photos accompanied by catty commentary like this:
But looking at the before-and-after photos, it was not readily apparent what Ms. Palin got from her shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue....What the number $150,000 suggests is that Ms. Palin traded up to designer versions of the clothes she wore before stepping onto the national stage, a surprising implication for a candidate who emphasizes her appeal to working-class voters.
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nuff said, I didn't think so.
The hypocrisy of the MSM never ceases to amaze. We have a candidate whose friends are terrorists, who will not permit the public to see any of his records, including his original birth certificate, while the MSM chooses to insult us with trivia.
She gets more out of those clothes than Hillary Clinton got out of Mark Penn for 60 times the price.
Ugly feminists can’t stand how good Sara looks. It doesn’t matter how much they spend on wardrobe and beauty products - liberal ugly is more than skin deep.
Have Obama wardrobe expenses been analyzed?
I don’t think so. I Googled “Obama Wardrobe” and the only thing that came up were MANY links to the Palin story.
If you ask me, some Dimocrap journo didn't look hard enough at the DNC's t-accounts... the cost for making Mrs. O "glamorous" is there, just creatively hidden.
As one Republican pundit on Cnbc today said, how much did it cost for obammi’s campaign plane to fly back and forth to Hawaii over the weekend. Probably more than the 150,000. Did his campaign pay, we know they did as obammi doesn’t pay for anything.
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