Posted on 11/07/2008 1:35:09 PM PST by lewisglad
Palin, who flew into Anchorage late Wednesday night from the campaign trail, was at home in Wasilla on Thursday and not giving interviews, while an aide sorted through luggage to identify campaign clothes purchased by the Republican National Committee.
That clothing, which cost the RNC $150,000 or more, is the source of much of the infighting that has dogged the end of the McCain-Palin campaign.
Anonymous aides have described the purchases as a Palin shopping spree that went even further than previously reported, including staffers using their own credit cards to clothe her.
Palin supporters tell a different story. Stapleton, who said she spoke with Palin about the clothes Thursday, said the campaign brought in a New York stylist to Minneapolis, where Palin was sequestered in a hotel suite practicing her speech for the Republican National Convention.
The stylist's job was to make Palin look vice presidential, Stapleton said, and the campaign went out and bought the clothes, bringing them back for Palin and family members to try on.
Stapleton said Palin never went shopping for high-end clothes herself and objected when she saw the price tag, only to be told it's necessary as a candidate.
"She was thrown into it with, here's your chief of staff, here's your personal assistant, here's your foreign policy adviser. By the way you're part of this campaign and here are the clothes you're going to wear," Stapleton said.
Stapleton said Palin has no notice of any RNC lawyers coming to town. She said Palin asked that everything not belonging to her be taken off her campaign plane in Phoenix before she returned to Alaska on Wednesday.
That didn't happen, Stapeleton said, so Palin and another aide were going through the luggage in Wasilla on Thursday, sorting through what belongs to Palin.
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The article said — “Stapleton said Palin never went shopping for high-end clothes herself and objected when she saw the price tag, only to be told it’s necessary as a candidate.”
That sounds more like what happened....
I’m sorry....how much was Michelle Obama’s “Black Widow” dress.....?
In my opinion, she looked great in jeans and a tee shirt.
These RNC hacks now can send the clothes to a fellow traveller - Michelle Hussein.
This is the BEGINNING OF THE 2012 CAMPAIGN FOLKS!!
The press has nothing else to do for 4 years, because their God is in office.
Oh please, like they would fit her.
It would be good for someone to style her up, though (Michelle, not Sarah).
I’m am so sick of these people questioning and accusing Sarah of all these terrible things. Obama has not had to answer to anything and McCain answered for nothing, but oh my Sarah can’t even breath wrong and whamo.
Pigs.
The media is more interested in Sarah’s knickers than Barry Soetoro’s press conference.
This whole thing really pisses me off! Where the hell is McCain supporting her in this. I can’t stand him almost as much as I can’t stomach the Messiah. Sarah should take the clothes and tell them all to shove it their butts. But of course, she’s got way too much class for that. Bunch of losers.
The media is going to portray this as Henry Higgins throwing Eliza Doolittle out on the street, we can’t let that happen.
Keep the damn clothes.
You earned them, Sarah.
But you have more class in your little finger than the entire McCain campaign staff.
Sarah could keep all of the couture and report it all as earned income, thereby driving the libbies nuts.
The MSM efforts and the majority of the electorate will guarantee their god a second term.
Let her keep the damn clothes. Come on!
They would never fit her.
Candidates do not have the time to go shopping. The job of candidate starts early in the morning and ends frequently after midnight.
Consultants are hired to do the clothes shopping, like Naomi Wolfe for Al Gore (fee was 180,00).
I am astonished that people do not know this. This is how campaigns are run and have been for decades.
Based on the designer's price range, somewhere between $1500 and $3000.
Yep! Michelle’s ass is too big.
She’s gonna need a new wardorbe anyway for New Hampshire and Iowa!
It's sinful what they're doing to this woman.
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