Who the hell would want Palin’s sweaty, coliform infested, VPL-inhibiting thongs? Certainly not anyone I want to know.
From Squink’s link: (…Squink’s link. Squink’s link. See Squink link. Linkety-Squink! 
Er, sorry.)
I don’t get it. Why didn’t she just get some staffers to help her sort through the clothes before she packed to go home? Wasn’t it kind of silly to cart all the clothes back to Alaska, where she now has to sort through them all herself and ship them all the way back to New York or wherever the RNC wants them?
And how is any of the RNC’s stuff mixed up with the family’s regular clothes, anyway? I thought the whole point of having her clothing purchases subsidized was that she needed fancy and expensive stuff for national public appearances that she didn’t have in her own professional wardrobe. Shouldn’t those fancy and expensive things have been easily identified as such, and easy to keep separate from the family’s own clothes?
Shoot, when I was a little girl and borrowed a fancy party dress from my cousin to be in a wedding in, my mom made me keep it in a box in tissue paper at all times when it was not actually on my body for alterations or at the wedding itself. (And no trying it on at random times to play princess in, either!) A fancy, expensive, borrowed outfit is not something to be treated casually, IMMO (In My Mother’s Opinion).
The RNC is having to pay lawyers’ salaries to get this mess sorted out just so they won’t be breaking campaign finance laws. ISTM that somebody somewhere was clearly being way too casual, and/or disorganized, and/or negligent, about this. Either Palin should have been more careful and systematic with the borrowed clothes, or the RNC should have kept better records about them.
Just as a guess: Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Rush, John, well maybe not John, I think they had a falling out there at the end.
I’m loving this thread. Sam Stone makes me giggle.
Bytheway, maybe this is or isn’t the thread to ask this … cuz gosh knows I wouldn’t want to imply anything inappropriate about the Palin’s family values BUT … have Bristol and Fucking Redneck set a date yet?
And all of a sudden Sarah can’t find her underpants. Coincidence? I think not.
In early October they said they were considering summer 2009, but nothing was settled:
Apparently the McCain campaign had been hoping for a pre-election ceremony:
Those poor kids. You know, if they really have decided they’re in love forever and want to build a family together and all that then I wish them every happiness, but if they are not feeling really sure about it, then I hope they manage to get out of it with no bones broken. Marriage is not supposed to be a celebrity stunt, although I know it’s not exactly unheard of to use it that way.
Maybe they’re trying to arrange a double ceremony with Charlie Crist and his Beard-To-Be?
Ok, that is just disgusting. We are talking about MARRIAGE here–the institution that conservatives deem so very sacred. And here it is merely a political ploy. If Palin is the one who reined this asshole in, good for her.
I doubt there’ll be a wedding. I pity Bristol–she’s the adult in this and will carry all the freight. I just hope that when they get back to AK, she can stop being her mother’s au pair.
Nothing here has changed my mind about Palin–I think she was on the make and like someone said upthread, got caught with her hand in the cookie jar. There was no reason to take those clothes back to AK, but then, there was no reason to spend that much on the clothes in the first place. So much for prudent conservative spending in a fishbowl. It’s just another example of “I’ve got mine”–the meme of the Rep party.
The imagery of Palin rooting around for the missing items is making me think about a teenage girl who’s been caught shoplifting and has to account for all the stolen merchandise in her closet. I’m picturing her sitting on her knees amist a pile of clothes, her father standing behind her with his arms folded, telling her to quit crying and just find the damn underwear already.
“I’M TRYING TO, DADDY! GAWD, GET OFF MY BACK ALREADY! I HATE YOU! I HATE EVERYTHING!!!” she screams, throwing a shoe angrily across the room.
If the plan from the get-go had been that the clothes would be given away, this would not be happening. At all.
It’s funny but it’s also kind of sad.
Any clothes that end up at a charity consignment will just be bought back by SP at firesale prices!
I think it has been Piper, and Willow pulling au pair duty, Bristol was getting fitted for maternity clothes on the campaign aerobus and training the younger au pairs, but I think she was mostly gone fromt he spotlight. But who cares about the child care, big families all pitch in, ever heard of the Duggers and their 18 buddies?
What I’m kind of chuckling about is how Obama has been spending the last week setting up his administration and the “experience” team of McCain/Palin can’t manage to sort through a wardrobe and set up a charity auction. Is this how these two jokers were planning to run our country?
I also can’t help but be reminded of the stereotypical dinner date where the woman orders the Surf & Turf just because it’s the most expensive dish on the menu, and she ain’t payin’.
In which Mrs. Palin says she will listen to what god has to say.
It seems she missed the memo. God said to go back to Alaska.
As far as I can tell, there doesn’t appear to be a Liberal dog in this fight. It’s one subset of Republicans rolling & scratching in the mud with another subset of Republicans, and scrambling to get to the Ministry of Propaganda (oops, Fox News) with the latest dirt.
It just makes me want to pop some popcorn.
I do not care about the clothes. What bothers me is she thinks god will help her get to the white house. The self importance of such a statement is shuddering. She really thinks some second rate bimbo local politician is gods chosen leader of the free world.
Where did she say such a thing? What were her exact words?
In the mind of the liberal faithful all across America. 
Link to the New York Times page.
The Fox News report on the interview is essentially the same, but includes a bit about criticism I thought was nice, coming from the woman who called bloggers a bunch of losers in their parents’ basements and said the national press corps were a bunch of jerks and meanies.
She is being called to the white house just like Bush.
Actually it was , “If it’s God’s plan then the door will open” or something like that. from the Fox interview on Huffpost.
I can’t get this new link thingy right :mad:
Still, I don’t see her as fit to lead this country and I hope as the GOP sorts itself out it’s leaders figure that out as well. Find a true leader with a keen mind who actually wants to serve.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/10/sarah-palin-fox-news-inte_n_142856.html