From electoral-vote.com this morning, a little eye-opener:
“RNC Paid for $150,000 for Palin’s Clothes”
Politico went through the financial report the RNC just filed with the FEC and discovered that the Republican National Committee has spent $150,000 for clothes and accessories for Sarah Palin since she was tapped for the VP slot in late August. One shopping trip to Neiman Marcus cost them $75,062.63, for example. They also spent over $4700 on her hair and makeup. Remember how the Republicans howled at John Edwards $400 haircut (which included a house call by the barber)? Google for: Edwards “$400 haircut” and you’ll get 27,000 hits. That was major news for a week. That aside, a far more damaging effect of this revelation is that Palin keeps saying she is just an ordinary small-town hockey mom. It is likely that if Joe-the-plumber’s wife were to rack up $150,000 in clothing expenses in a single month, Joe might ask how she was planning to pay the credit card bill since the median annual salary for plumbers is $37,514. Palin is already being ridiculed all over the place, and this provides more fodder for the comics.
Sheesh!!! And I got a stomach ache buying some $45 dress pants at Macy’s for work!
I was sick. Now, I’m sicker. Thanks, you bastard!
I’m sure she used the money from the helicopter sale on eBay.
Even better:
Post Script: John McCain argued on the Senate floor in 1993, “The use of campaign funds for items which most Americans would consider to be strictly personal reasons, in my view, erodes public confidence and erodes it significantly.”
Source: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015324.php