Alaska funded Palin kids' travel

[Edwina's Secretary]

I think it speaks to her character. We are not talking about a $850.00 suit...we are not talking about a once in a lifetime splurge on an outfit.

She claims to be Ms. Main Street Small Town America and spends $150,000 on clothes and what $4,000 on makeup and hair.

And she didn't blow her bank. She did it with the money contributed by loyal Republicans! OPM...Other People's Money!

Please..give me some more excuses! Call me more names. This is too, too fun!

[caseysmom]

ES...you always get accused of passive aggressiveness...wth what is the white characters that one can hardly read? I am not sure what passive aggressiveness is but if I had to guess it would be that!

[Edwina's Secretary]

ES...you always get accused of passive aggressiveness...wth what is the white characters that one can hardly read? I am not sure what passive aggressiveness is but if I had to guess it would be that!

I can't figure out the passive-aggressive thing either. I guess it is preferable to be aggressive-aggressive? You know...passive-passive is so old-fashion...and aggressive-passive..well...what can I say???

But I don't know what the white characters are? Perhaps I am being censored? Gosh darn Patriot Act!

[caseysmom]

Maybe we should start saying you are aggressive challenged

[Edwina's Secretary]

Maybe we should start saying you are aggressive challenged

I like that one! What do we call someone who has the...shall we say...opposite problem?

[sparks19]

excuses?

LOL no excuses.

I just don't dislike people for what they have or what they wear. I may dislike someone for their actions... but not the action of buy a suit that I couldn't afford.

there are lots of things to like or dislike about a person. choosing to get your panties in a twist over how much one spends on clothing... I just don't understand it. just seems... nitpiky and petty to me.

yeah... it came from donations to the RNC... but I find it foolish to donate to any campaign anyway because I find the uses for that money to be useless... like all of those LAME commercials that everyone is SO sick of. Staffing all those people to call and harass you at home to ask you for your support. I think these are all pretty sad uses for the donations. so does it really come as a shock that campaigns are putting money into makeup and hair (OH yes... even the men wear the make up and have the hair done... even though they may deny it lol)


and I just don't understand the logic that if you have the opportunity handed to you to shop at a world famous store and buy clothes that you haven't been able to purchase before then you MUST NOT be a REAL person.

I think this thread just proves exactly why they expect the candidates to dress to the nines... Image is everything so you BETTER look your VERY VERY best. YOu can say or do whatever you like but if someone doesn't like the way you look then you are on the chopping block

BTW... I like dancing

[jennielynn1970]

there are lots of things to like or dislike about a person. choosing to get your panties in a twist over how much one spends on clothing... I just don't understand it. just seems... nitpiky and petty to me.

I wouldn't care, but it wasn't her money. I can understand if she wanted to get a new wardrobe because she's getting a "new position".. you dress for the part when you change jobs. I get that. She just didn't spend her money for her new position. She spent other people's money.

yeah... it came from donations to the RNC... but I find it foolish to donate to any campaign anyway because I find the uses for that money to be useless...

So, the money that was spent from the donations for her outfits WAS foolish. You agree with that then, correct?

and I just don't understand the logic that if you have the opportunity handed to you to shop at a world famous store and buy clothes that you haven't been able to purchase before then you MUST NOT be a REAL person.

So, if you have the opportunity to take advantage of people, you should? Is that what you're saying? That if you are handed money and said "Here, we know you should be paying for this, but hey, they gave us the money, so even though we know ETHICALLY it's wrong, what the hey, do it anyway!"

I think this thread just proves exactly why they expect the candidates to dress to the nines... Image is everything so you BETTER look your VERY VERY best. YOu can say or do whatever you like but if someone doesn't like the way you look then you are on the chopping block

Again, you dress for the position you want to be in. Normally, however, people do that with their own funds. Not other people's money.

She wants to be in that position, maybe she should have spent her own money to look that part. I'm sure she can max out some credit cards, right??

[sparks19]

I wouldn't care, but it wasn't her money. I can understand if she wanted to get a new wardrobe because she's getting a "new position".. you dress for the part when you change jobs. I get that. She just didn't spend her money for her new position. She spent other people's money.

Yeah... Other people's money that they DONATED for the RNC's USE. So when you donate money to a cause do you get to dictate how they use it? Likely not. it goes to whatever they see fit to use it for... kind of like our taxes


QUOTE=jenn_librarian;2079914]So, the money that was spent from the donations for her outfits WAS foolish. You agree with that then, correct?[/QUOTE]

I think just about all the bull they WASTE campaign money on is foolish yes... and YES I think spending campaign money on expensive clothes is foolish. However, this thread shows me WHY they feel the need to do that. Had she bought a $30 suit at Walmart people would complain "She can't spend a little extra on an outfit and we are supposed to believe she can be VP when she can't even dress in nice clothes and supports a company like Walmart... the horror" people just look at their appearance ... SAD that material things are what seem to matter most at a time like this.

So, if you have the opportunity to take advantage of people, you should? Is that what you're saying? That if you are handed money and said "Here, we know you should be paying for this, but hey, they gave us the money, so even though we know ETHICALLY it's wrong, what the hey, do it anyway!"

yes jenn... I'm for taking ADVANTAGE of people seriously... am I new here? ridiculous. I do not believe for a SECOND that people sent in a list of what their donations should be spent on. You donate money... it goes to whatever they feel is nessecary. It may not be what YOU want... but again... apparently style matters over substance or we wouldn't have this debate going on. We look at what they LOOK like rather than WHO they are. kind of sad. but again... I believe taht donating to a campaign is a WASTE of your money. What does it accomplish?

Again, you dress for the position you want to be in. Normally, however, people do that with their own funds. Not other people's money.

She wants to be in that position, maybe she should have spent her own money to look that part. I'm sure she can max out some credit cards, right??

OOOOOOOH but then she wouldn't be a respsonbile PARENT. spending her family money on a wardrobe the RNC says she needs. She's already on the chopping block for running for VP with *gasp* children. Imagine if she spent all their family money on clothes that they demand she has.

Rock and a hard place. someone is always going to complain.

Yet no one complains about how much they spend on commercials that are POINTLESS and accomplish NOTHING. THAT'S OK right?

LOL we apparently need to agree to disagree here because I just CANNOT get on board with the idea that if she has nice clothes that it means she is a horrible person. DANG her for havin those clothes.

[Edwina's Secretary]

LOL we apparently need to agree to disagree here because I just CANNOT get on board with the idea that if she has nice clothes that it means she is a horrible person. DANG her for havin those clothes.

Is this a round dance or a square dance? Or do you just not read what you don't want to read?

Once again...I know what she is...a mean-spirited, not too educated or learned woman who has drunk for many, many years from the public trough she claims to disdain. In other words...a dull hypocrite.

I don't care what she wears....(for the third or fourth time...)

[Edwina's Secretary]

She's already on the chopping block for running for VP with *gasp* children.

I realize you might not know this....not being an American and all...

But she is not the first woman to run for vp...nor the first woman to run for vp who also had children.

That would have been Geraldine Ferrero. In 1984. She has three children.

Her selection gave her running mate - Walter Mondale - a bump in the polls. It did not last until the election.

[jennielynn1970]

yes jenn... I'm for taking ADVANTAGE of people

hehe, it was me being sarcastic and a smart ass...

I kinda like being in an ornery mood.

[jennielynn1970]

BTW... I like dancing

Can you dance like this???

[blue]

Can you dance like this???

Very nice chop, for bringing the funnay.

[jennielynn1970]

October 23, 2008
Look Is the Same; the Labels Have Changed
By ERIC WILSON

When Sarah Palin arrived at the governor’s mansion in Juneau, Alaska, for the first time in December 2006, she wore a pink turtleneck, a preppy track jacket and what appeared to be a knockoff Burberry scarf. She had often campaigned in fleece. Introduced as Senator John McCain’s running mate in Dayton, Ohio, in August, she wore red pumps that cost $89 from Naughty Monkey, a brand whose target audience is teenagers.

As a vice-presidential candidate, Ms. Palin’s look — which has apparently undergone a costly makeover — has not changed dramatically from a “Working Girl” formula of authoritative jackets paired with feminine skirts that seem calculated to suggest that she is ready to go to work on Day 1.

The Republicans spent about $150,000 on a clothing makeover for Ms. Palin and her family, according to financial disclosure forms. But looking at the before-and-after photos, it was not readily apparent what Ms. Palin got, exactly, from her shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.

What the number $150,000 suggests is that Ms. Palin traded up to designer versions of the clothes she wore before stepping onto the national stage, a surprising implication for a candidate who emphasizes her appeal to working-class voters.

“My first reaction when I heard about this was, ‘Honey, I could have dressed you for a lot less than that,’ ” said Cindi Leive, the editor in chief of Glamour magazine, which asked readers on Wednesday to vote in an online poll whether the expenses were too high; 72 percent said they were. “In general, she looks terrific,” Ms. Leive said, “but if you asked me to figure out where the $150,000 went, I’m not sure I could tell you.”

It is not yet clear whether Ms. Palin chose her new wardrobe or worked with stylists and other advisers, or what message her clothes were intended to broadcast. In fact, most of her bracelet sleeve jackets are so generic-looking that they could have come from any of the favored designers of Washington politicians: Oscar de la Renta, Escada and St. John.

The square ivory jacket she wore during her acceptance speech at the Republican Convention was a $2,500 silk shantung Valentino, reportedly bought at Saks. But the black wrap jacket she wore for the vice-presidential debate in St. Louis was a Tahari suit, according to a spokesman for the line, and costs less than $200; her shoes, according to the sleuths at ShoeaholicsAnonymous.com, were red imitation croc pumps from Kate Spade.

To her credit, Ms. Palin has been wearing those suits, and those awkward-yet-efficient, zip-close jackets (nothing says maverick like red leather) repeatedly over the last month, implying a sense of frugality that would belie the credit card statements of the Republican National Committee. To be scrupulously nonpartisan, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., her Democratic counterpart, seems to have a deep wardrobe of ties.

Some fashion executives went so far as to defend Ms. Palin for helping to support the economy.

“There’s no upside to looking frumpy or dowdy,” said Simon Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York, where the campaign reported spending only $789.72, or enough for almost one outfit.

[sparks19]

Can you dance like this???

yeah right... maybe at night in my dreams I could dance like that lol.

I couldn't even wear the outfit and fake it lol.

LOL BTW... Obama can't dance like that either. I saw him try on Ellen then his wife came on and shamed him lol.