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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This episode does more to convince me that the GOP is dead.
Rush, Hannity, Levin, Gingrich and several of the CONSERVATIVE heavy hitters need to take a couple of weeks, sit down and write up a CONSERVATIVE platform, and then announce their withdrawal from the GOP and form a new party.
The ACP(American Conservative Party).
25,000,000 instant members.
BO spends $500,000 to fly and lie about visiting granny in Hawai’i (for a whopping three hours and then goes and seals up his alleged birth certificate). Who cares what she spent on clothes. Did people really think she was going to be able to wear Alaskan-weight clothes to campaign in Florida or Southern Ohio? Did they really think she was going to have time to drop into TJ Maxx or Kohl’s or Dillards stores to try on hundreds of outfits to find the ones that actually fit? It’s ridiculous, as is the allegations that she forced staffers to buy her things on their personal credit cards.
If I was Rush, I would ask Sarah to be a permanent co-host.
ROFLMTO...too funny, but we better watch 4 yrs from now...
‘Well, he was all gung ho for Palin after the RNC, admits he voted for McCain/Palin after it came out about that’
Who is “he”? Is that same person who gave mention of FR? I know Biden didn’t vote for McCain-Palin..lol
We missed PravdABDNC’s outrage over Gores earthtone girl for $130,000 month?? Can’t wait for the next round of Pink Slips.
Pray for W, Saracuda and Our Troops
Local talk show host, don't like sniping behind his back, but he's a master at leading it where he wants it to go. He plugged FR for being a good source of info the media won't print. That was before the election.
I'll wait for the right opening at some point to talk about something else that's on my mind, don't call in very much.
130k a month for Gore, holy moly!!
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