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StumblePublished Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 | 2:41 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 10:15 a.m.
O.K. Technically it was the Republican National Committee that did the big spending at Saks and Neimans, but Sarah Palin could have said no.
How did Palin expect her shopping spree to jibe with her no-nonsense, cost-cutting, mainstreet-mom-on-a-budget image? And the revelation comes at a time when Palin is renewing her wooing of women who are struggling to feed their families and pay their bills. Is it a good or bad thing for the McCain camp that the news of Alaska's first couple's scheduled deposition tomorrow is almost an afterthought in the news?
I marveled the other day while at the Henderson Pavillion at Palin's behaved, beautiful and polished children. Not that they would have looked any less beautiful in duds from JC Penney, but even I and my four children would look spiffy if I laid down 150 grand at the Fashion Show Mall. Maybe I should run for vice president. I'm qualified in foreign policy. I am Russian.
Tonight, we take a break from the local races to bring you the chairmen of both national parties. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says Republicans aren't very good at running the nation, but they're great at winning elections. The guy who paid the tab at Saks and Neimans, Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan, takes exception to the focus on what he calls the little things, like suiting up Sarah. Tune in for Jon at his finest.
Or Cindy McCain could have just said; "charge it"?
100 million dollars and she would not buy clothes for the woman changing her husbands diapers?
Her followers are so drunk on the Palin-aid that they probably admire her for having such "great" taste in clothes, instead of questioning why someone who boasts about being "middle class" and understanding the plight of the working man/woman has no problem spending a starter home's worth of clothes in 2 months.
Never mind that her clothes look like they are off the clearance rack at Mervyns circa 1993.
I had to file bankrupt in order to pay my motgage food & gas.What palin spent for clothes I will not make in my lifetime. Its Obsene so is Cindy McCain for what she spends on clothes.Over Three hundred thousand dollars for the dress she wore to the convention.McCain has no clue as to how the poor and middle class have to live.He has 7 homes+ 15 cars and millions of dollars to fly around on.No WAY,NO HOW NO MCCAIN,
NO PALIN!!!
Sounds like the "Straight Talk Express" has been hijacked. Now its the "Gravy Train Express".
"I'm qualified in foreign policy. I am Russian."
You are too funny.
If you get the VP job, make sure to appoint me as the Secretary of Agriculture. I'm qualified as I love animals.
Once I drove through Kansas and Nebraska. So I know all about the midwest.
One thing you have to realize is that things in Alaska are expensive. Because everything, especially fresh food has to be shipped up and then trucked in.
The Palin's don't have alot.
The real story here is that unlike the other candidates, who are all millionaires, Palin did not have good enough clothes for this campaign.
A more interesting story is how uninformed Obama supporters are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyvqhdllX...
For the latest Palin scandal see:
http://www.thespoof.com/magazine/index.c...
What is it with the Neocons around here lately? The lies are flying left and right!
"The Palin's don't have alot. The real story here is that unlike the other candidates, who are all millionaires, Palin did not have good enough clothes for this campaign."
What? First, you need to read this article:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory...
Estimates place Palin's assets around $1.2 million.
You're horribly misinformed about the candidate you support.
"The Palins' assets seem enviable: a half-million-dollar home on a lake with a float-plane at the dock, two vacation retreats, commercial-fishing rights worth an estimated $50,000 or more and an income last year of at least $230,000. That compares to a median income of $64,333 for Alaskans and $50,740 for Americans in 2007, according to the Census Bureau."
They earned almost 4x the median income for Alaska.
Spare me the Palin pity party. She owns a plane for chrissakes.
Palin is a poor little rich girl who has a habit of having her fingers in the till. She falsified travel expenses to say that her children were traveling with her on State business. She charged Alaska to sleep in her own bed. The Wasilla City Hall is basically a double-wide, temporary building, but she spent the city's road and transportation budget to redecorate her office to the tune of $50,000, including red flocked wallpaper, right after she was elected mayor. The idea that she would take money from the people who have donated to the campaign to buy herself a make-over isn't such a stretch. What is a stretch is that she is now saying that they aren't her clothes. Any woman knows that in order for those jackets to fit her bust the way they do, they had to be custom made for her body. And did she really need the thigh high, high-heeled boots? How stupid do we look?
She's a Diva and she's playing it up for 2012. Basically conceding, by distancing herself from McCain and ignoring the party line, that the game is lost and it's time to buy a parka.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/p...
Ouch! I'm starting to feel sad for McCain. He's...um...all used up. Time to retire old soldier, and slowly fade away.
Sarah Palin put corrupt Republicans and Democrats in jail in Alaska. I knew that when she burst onto the national stage all of the same old lowlifes would tear into her and they have. They are terrified that she will get elected and believe me it's not because of her stance on abortion or her alleged lack of knowledge. It's because of the certain knowledge that she will clean up that swamp we call Washington, D.C. and all of the multimillionaire politicians who have had their hands in our pockets for decades are frightened of her.
The scum in Alaska actually had t-shirts and hats made on which they proudly proclaimed that they were corrupt. And she came in like Mr. Clean and whipped their butts. That is why she has a popularity rating in Alaska of between 80 and 84%. That is why she is by far the most popular governor in America.
It's unfortunate that the people who would most benefit from genuine government reform (in the form of far cleaner government, lower taxes, no more pork, no more lies) are manning the battle stations and doing everything they can to destroy this woman.
Latest Palin blunder: it appears she steered contracts for her famous gas pipeline toward bidders with ties to her administration.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory...
"Gov. Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment -- a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 -- emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation shows."
"Despite Palin's boast of a smart and fair bidding process, the AP found that her team crafted terms that favored only a few independent pipeline companies and ultimately benefited the winner, TransCanada Corp."
"Despite promises and legal guidance not to talk directly with potential bidders, Palin had meetings or phone calls with nearly every major candidate, including TransCanada."
"The leader of Palin's pipeline team had been a partner at a lobbying firm where she worked on behalf of a TransCanada subsidiary. Also, that woman's former business partner at the lobbying firm was TransCanada's lead private lobbyist on the pipeline deal, interacting with legislators in the weeks before the vote to grant TransCanada the contract. Plus, a former TransCanada executive served as an outside consultant to Palin's pipeline team."
Looks like more croneyism and sweetheart deals for the pals of Sarah Palin.
"The scum in Alaska..."
You mean that sheen on the water? That's the leftovers from the Exxon Valdez. More of Sarah's friends?
We should take up a collection to get her a new parka from Nieman Marcus. She's going to need it. Soon.
Under the Gov. Palin administration, people in small towns in Alaska are hurting.
AFN wants an energy emergency declared
http://www.adn.com/rural/story/568006.ht...
NICE FALSE HEADLINE. Try the truth sometime... if you can ever find it.
Comparing the small number of people attending rallies for the Republican candidates to the much larger number of people attending the Democratic ones, I'm happy to see that the vast majority of Americans have indicated hope for the future of America.