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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Wait until the truth of what did happen get out on Gretta’s show. Egg will be on their face.
Yeah, blaming and scapegoating. I don't think she ever got to DC, but *think* I read that she may have been there before.
I'm still fuming lol.
Yeah, her lust for designer labels was quite evident in the picture of her voting: Wrangler and Carhartt. Sheesh, for this to be coming from Republicans makes it more evident than ever that this party needs a MASSIVE clean-out and overhaul.
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This entire story is so freaking SUPERFICIAL that we need to urge our young people to seek REAL journalism schools and GET IN THERE to tell the truth!!!!!!!!!!!
And they sure don't care about his associations with Black racists or White terrorists, or even if he is constitutionally eligible for the office. After all, what's it matter if the manger he was born in was in Hawaii or Kenya--the main thing is, he's here now to save us.
Don't forget Michelle's Iranian Caviar and Lobster!
Sarah is a bona fide star now. This kind of tabloid reporting is apparently par for the MSM course!
Who says people don't know this? The truth can be SO inconvenient, though. There was an election to be won; the media didn't have TIME to waste worrying about facts!
Why would she want them. I would personally go through and send back every stitch! She looks fabulous in anything. She does not need that high-priced stuff!.
I gave $150 to the campaign solely because of HER. If they take back the clothes, they can give me back my $150!
From many of the posts durig this election, it would seem that you and I are the only ones who know this.
The consultant was given a budget of 150,000. The consultant disappeared for a few days into the bowels of some high end shops. She reappeared with a new wardrobe for the candidate who was losing weight from her most recent pregnancy and who had (according to my wife) an out of date wardrobe. Sarah was the only person in the race who was not a millionaire.
The whole wardrobe kerfluffle was a lie. Just like all of the other lies told by the press.
Carl CAMERON LIED TO US......FOX NEWS NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE!!!
I want to see an itemized inventory of Obama’s entire campaign, from phone bills to giant styrofoam columns, and have the MSM nitpick over what was and was not necessary. I’ll be over in my corner holding my breath.
By the way, wasn’t the money the Republicans’, to use as they saw fit? It’s not like whatever wasn’t wasted on Palin’s clothes would have gone to starving orphans.
Whether the Africa statement happened or not, it would have been correct by Sarah. The “African Union” is the “continent” of Africa as ONE. The former countries are states of the African Union now, and they have ONE FLAG, AND A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM. It is Foxnews and the driveby media who do not know geography, and the changes that have taken place in last 10 yrs.
Listen up people...
In days of yore, when the press at least gave the impression that they were impartial, “anonymous source” was an actual person.
Now, the press’s credibility is zero, and “anonymous source” means “I’m lyin’”
Treat the press with the contempt that they deserve. Do not buy into the advocacy journalism.
Here is the bottom line:
The dems, travelers, globalists, leftists, whatever you want to call them-—they have someone everywhere now. They are subversives who have infiltrated all functioning political, social and cultural institutions.
McCain is too old a feeble to understand that the corruption is so widely spread out and part of the fabric of our current society that he didn’t even realize he had counter-intelligence operatives working on his staff.
Or did he?
Bush’s staff was infected by them too.
Oh, it’s going to be great when obama hussein starts appointing circuit judges across the land! And just wait until he fires every States Attorney-just like Slick Willie! Yeehaw, that’s going to be fun!!
BARF!
“I am astonished that people do not know this. This is how campaigns are run and have been for decades.”
Everyone knows it. What really astonishes you is how hypocritical the MSM is. Face it, they’ll try to get away with anything. It’s the old “there’s no smoke without a fire” tactic. It started day one with the “Who the hell is she?” stories, and especially the pregnant daughter stories. It worked for Bush.
Don't worry. Our God is bigger. They will reap what they have sown.
I don't want to say too much because he sometimes reads this site and actually gave us a plug a few weeks back.
I'm an up front kind of person, and if the whole truth ever comes out, then I will rethink my opinion. I'm not a blind follower of Sarah or anybody, no way imagined that she was an expert on everything, didn't expect she could be, wasn't running for POTUS, but I just liked her and think she brought a lot to the ticket since she came on board and somebody damn well better step up to the plate and give her some credit for her tireless cheerleading for John McCain which she was probably told to do.
Now if this is the way the GOP operates, I'm disgusted with them for that.
My jaw dropped when a regular Democrat caller/shill/reads talking points and Obama voter (think he's black which shouldn't matter), usually makes me want to tune out, actually called in defending Palin!!! Wow, he really tripped some triggers, wanted to talk about something else, and so many Palin supporters in the blue twilight zone here. Not one caller criticizing her that I heard, one did say he'd rather have had Romney and another, Huckabee, little less than 1/2 hour to go.
Somebody accused him of being afraid of losing his job due to the Fairness thing which hasn't passed yet. Seems like some of them are edgy and walking on eggs.
no kidding, she earned a closetful of chanel couture, not that she would
want it. i can’t believe that out of hundreds of millions of dollars spent
on this election, this would be leaked against sarah. are they gonna
return worn clothes to neiman’s? sell ‘em on e-bay? what the hell
is going on with rnc? she absolutely knocked herself out for mccain
and she is being bitched at about $150,000? donors to mccain
should start demanding their money back from such a lame campaign!
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