What will happen to Sarah Palin's campaign wardrobe after the election?

Clothes sent across the sea to her "neighbors", the poor starving people in Russia who don't have Neiman's...But she'll be watching what they do with them with her binocs!

I find it hard to believe that "Ms. Palin did not spend time on the shopping, and that other people made the decision to buy such an array of clothes." She didn't try them on? Of course, she did. Perhaps her followers went to the stores and brought her the clothes to choose from, but she DID spend time and she is fully complicit in the purchase of $150,000 worth of "accessories."

This woman Palin is truly corrupt and she hasn't even gotten to the White House.

palin denies it...mccain ain't real clear on how much or who's money was used. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a complaint againest palin and others over the deal. if one of you liberals wanna make a "will palin be found guilty? the info is on the link below.

Sarah Palin insisted in an interview on Thursday that she did not accept $150,000 worth of designer clothes from the Republican Party and said the media spotlight on the story is evidence of bias against women candidates.


McCain was asked several questions on Thursday about the shopping spree -- and he answered each one more or less the same way: Palin needed clothes and they'll be donated to charity.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/24/palin-denies-accepting-designer-clothes/

Palin's big mistake was not palling around with known domestic terrorists.

How dare she wear new clothes during the campaign.

$150,000 worth of new clothes in a matter of a couple of days? Clearly she is not one of us.

@emmag:

If you feel that way, probably better go with the guy that pals around with terrorist then.
At least I know where I was born - I can't relate to someone who won't release his birth certificate because of some embarassment...

You're a one-trick pony, NN. You keep going back to the Republican talking points that have never caught on. Nice try!

The many, many, faces of John (the economy is sound) McCain:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/magazine/26mccain-t.html

@deelilley: thanks for that article!

Sarah did not spend this money, and there is some question if this story is even true.

However, we know Michelle Obama said that the $600 stimulous check would buy her a pair of earrings, that Barack spent $150,000 on that fake greek temple stage he used for his coronation, that Barack tried to get earmarks for the company where Michelle worked and suddenly Michelle received a $200,000 pay raise... talk about "relating to the common people" comes up short!

The story is true. Financial reports were filed by the RNC.

There is some question about how much of that actually made it to Palin & Todd: http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/10/did_sarah_palin_actually_get_1.html

"However, we know Michelle Obama said that the $600 stimulous check would buy her a pair of earrings, that Barack spent $150,000 on that fake greek temple stage he used for his coronation, that Barack tried to get earmarks for the company where Michelle worked and suddenly Michelle received a $200,000 pay raise... talk about "relating to the common people" comes up short!"

And we know this how? Citations please.

And this hockey mom who needs a $150,000 wardrobe for a losing campaign somehow has something to do with Joe Six Pack?

Diesel. Since you throw the word "liberal" around so much, I'd like you to explain what it means to you so I can get some grasp of the way in which you're seeking to insult those who disagree with you.

The baby's pacifier? 92 bucks. In touch with America? You decide.

Re: Republican talking points, EM. Republicans are very proud of the fact that they don't have to actually think through the complex results of proposed policies. They have fat-ass, drug-addict Rush Limbaugh, senile John McCain and the doddering ghost of Ronald Reagan to tell them what to say, think and do. Limbaugh's fans call themselves dittoheads, which is revealing.

Beyond that point, I think you'll find that there's pretty little between the ears of your average Republican voter. The reason they talk about the "liberal elite" is not because Democrats are in fact, ivory-tower academics, but because so few Republicans actually read or correctly apply the use of the verb "to be" (count the "aints" in diesel's posts, for example.

The real tragedy though, is that these folks are so hateful and ignorant that they vote for a party that has never done anything to help them become better educated. So what we have is this small army of white trash, the members of which have been tricked into believing, not only that "pro-wrestling" is a real sport, but that mythology like "trickle-down" economics actually works.

It's very sad.

Michelle Obama - $600 earrings: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/11/michelle-obama-spend-600-stimulus-check-earrings/

Invesco Field at Mile High could cost $150,000 to rent for an evening, according to an official with the stadium district: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/08/littwin-switch-to-invesco-for-obama-speech/

Michelle's impressive pay raise: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_earmark_wife/2008/03/14/80393.html

@NN... from your first link, Michelle Obama clearly did NOT say what you said:

"You're getting $600 - what can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month," she said. "The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings."

@NN...I do not see a cost mentioned in your second linked article except that the article talks about all the benefits Denver will receive, but from your reference, it appears that is the cost to rent the stadium, not for the stage sets.

If you want to play apples and apples, NN, you also have to cite how much McCain is going to spend on rentals and crap for his big loser party. See what I mean about Republican voters?

@NN...the last sentence in your third link states this:

"Hospitals spokesman John Easton told the Tribune that Michelle Obama's salary is in line with those of the 16 other vice presidents at the not-for-profit medical center."

I don't think you've proved your point.

@emmag: I respectfully disagree. If we go back to what I said "that Barack tried to get earmarks for the company where Michelle worked and suddenly Michelle received a $200,000 pay raise", my link recounts both parts of that. I did not make any mention of what other people were making - and while I dont know if the othere there normally get $200k pay raises as a matter of course, I have my doubts. Either way, my "relating to the common people" remark still stands, in my opinion.

oops - i should have typed *others* :-)

As an aside, isn't Nov. 30 kind of an early deadline for this? I imagine they might be a little preoccupied with other things right after the election.

This is related:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGLagLETYv4

@ enmag, you're welcome!
Joe McCain was in the newz. Whadda jerk!!
"John McCain's brother's angry 911 call: a short family fuse"
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/10/john-mccains-br.html

jsevigny - liberal as in democract..consertive as in republican. i didn't know liberal was insulting to anybody. can you show me where i insulted anybody who disagreed with me? i see you don't mind calling people names. i "ain't" gonna get into a name calling contest with somebody online. you can enjoy that on your own.

How'd I miss this fray? @ jsevigny I welcome the opportunity to engage you in some cogent debates about the merits of various schools of thought?

V&H

aka, a proud Conservative, and by Conservative I don't mean that I'm wedded to the idea that things must never change, rather I mean the more 'old school' idea that we must be good stewards of our time/talents/energies and make the best use of finite resources, both individually and as a society, not with an eye to giving everyone equal and meager portions, but rather creating a climate that is ripe for pie expansion rather than pie slicing.

Good stewardship is important, V&H. I applaud that sentiment.

NOW....the GOP has dispatched a lawyer to go up to Alaska and retrieve some of those clothes and do an inventory.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/06/gop-lawyer-dispatched-to_n_141897.html

If the GOP lawyers take the clothes, that's "other," right?

Diesel, you really ought to do some reading and brush up on your vocabulary a bit before throwing big words around. You might just embarass yourself.

the way she's been fielding questions the clothes signals obfuscation.

@neuronexmachina
>As an aside, isn't Nov. 30 kind of an early deadline for this? I imagine they might be a little preoccupied with other things right after the election.

November 30 is as good a day as any. I prefer hubdub markets that settle sooner rather than later. The Republican National Committee will always be preoccupied with something. If the wardrobe issue slips off the radar by Nov 30, most likely it's of for good.

D'oh! Two days too late! From the AP Dec 2: "The RNC has received and inventoried remaining items and they "will be appropriately dispersed to various charities," spokesman Alex Conant said Tuesday."

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