So when is Palin giving back all the clothes?

What kind of Mom “gives” her kids all these fancy Gucci clothes, knowing perfectly well that they’re going to be taken away from the children and auctioned off?

Asked and answered.

I find the tax thing facinating (I find tax facinating). This might be taxable income - it might be a gift from the donor, though I’m thinking that the donor might not be willing to back up the personal gift thing (and if they do, that creates all sorts of violations because you can’t gift politicians significant value). Plus, tax experts have said the Palins are probably responsible for unpaid taxes on Todd and the kid’s travel.

Now, this puts the IRS in a strange situation. Its publically known that the Palin’s MAY have underpaid their taxes. It certainly is the case that the Democrats in power have no love for her…and the GOP appears to have thrown her under the bus. Will the IRS back up the bus and make sure she is good and dead with a complete audit? If they do - they’ll get accused of it being politically motivated. If they don’t - they aren’t doing their job since many tax experts do believe they owe significant back taxes - and it isn’t fair of the IRS to go after some people suspected of breaking tax law and not others.

Paula Poundstone is my hero. She was on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” this weekend: The host, Peter Sagel, brought up the $150,000 wardrobe, and Poundstone said, “Only guys have found that reasonable. No woman has. Look, there’s only 150 days from the convention to the election. If you can’t dress yourself for less than a thousand dollars a day, I don’t want you near the federal budget.”

I’m trying to think of a guy now who would find that reasonable if it was HIS WIFE spending $1000 a day to outfit herself.

Yes, but have you looked at Paula Poundstone’s wardrobe lately? :smiley:

I think the guys of the world were just assuming that women’s clothes cost a lot, plus, you’ve got to buy accessories, which men mostly don’t. Also, that when the women go shopping, the men get out of the way.

I’m not saying this makes sense, mind you…

Also, the people who provided the credit cards… burn me for a sexist pig male chauvinist, but it’s been my assumption that they came from guys. Do we have any info on this?

IF a high Republican Revenue official were to order it, I think that would provide the political cover they need. Now, understand that I don’t think an audit of their finances would be a political attack. There seems to be enough there for this layman to at least have an inkling that there’s something wrong. I’m just saying that the way to get it done without triggering an enormous protest is to have a Republican official order it.

Now mind you if laws were broken (and perhaps they were) there needs to be an accounting, and promises that were made should be kept (and are in her clear best interest to do so, a slam dunk good pr move), and clearly she was much more of a loose cannon than McCain bargained for and his choice of her indeed confirmed his poor decision making skills … but this implication is not fair.

A Mom whose kids are going to be on a stage with her and who need costumes for the show. It is completely fair for her to have said to them that you will be wearing these costumes for the duration of this show - enjoy it if you want, suffer through it if you must - but we are all on stage and will be dressing up this way until election day is over. Then the costumes come back off.

That she went way over the top is poor judgment sure, and maybe even not legal, but it isn’t poor parenthood to dress your kids up and give it away after any more than it would be to put a boy in a rented tux for a black tie wedding.

I mean this isn’t like her getting on a plane to Alaska in active premature labor was. Now that was being negligent. (Assuming that her version of event was true, which we will never know since she failed to live up to the promise to release her medical records that would have answered that question.)

Not having a wardrobe that’s suitable for campaigning? While that may be a matter of concern, it’s the sort of thing that I’d greet with a great big “Meh.”

By golly, you’re RIGHT! Hillary Clinton must give back all the pantsuits the DNC bought for her, immediately!

Oh, wait.

Look, Hillary Clinton’s priciest pantsuits certainly have price tags well into four figures. Cindy McCain goes even higher-end. And John McCain, Obama, and Biden don’t buy their suits at J.C. Penney’s, either. But nobody much cares, or should, because they buy their clothes with their own money. Sarah Palin’s wardrobe was bought with campaign funds, which makes it a rather different matter.

Of course, certain Republicans seem to be pushing the clothing problem themselves. Blaming their losses on Palin is so much easier than trying to figure out what really went wrong…

Well the eating of their own is part of the dance that has begun for control of where the party goes from here and when. Now is when they can afford to do it most bloodily. Another two years and the knives get sheathed in favor of poison darts that are harder to trace.

The same Republicans who are busy telling Newsweek and Fox News that she didn’t know Africa was a continent?

So, first she is so careless with her email that she lets it get hacked. She can’t name a single newspaper she reads. Then she “loses” thousands of dollars worth of expensive clothes? And yet the GOP still thought she was qualified to lead the country during wartime?

I’m figuring she was stupid enough to think she could hide the stuff she bought for the kids, or they’d say, “Oh, well, I guess we can’t take it away from them!”

I mean, c’mon, this IS Sarah Palin we’re talking about. Ms. “I can see Russia from my house!”

They may not make take the items away from the kids-but they sure as hell will make Mom and Dad pay for it-AND they’ll have to pay taxes on it as well. Ha! (What 8 year old needs Gucci and Louis Vuitton anyways?) Jesus!

Oh, and as for women’s clothing costing a lot, if one knows where and how to look-and I assure you, most women DO, you can get a LOT for a lot LESS. Well, most intelligent women know this. This IS once again, Sarah Palin we’re talking about.

“And now up for sale, Auction Item # 233: a pair of men’s silk boxer shorts. Slightly used. What’s my opening bid?”

Okay, as a fellow leftie, I need to call you on this. That was Tina Fey who said that. While Sarah Palin did try to make the case that because you can see an island that belongs to Russia from another island that belongs to Alaska, she had foreign policy experience, she did NOT use the words you quoted.

While SNL did use a lot of her own words in those sketches, try to remember that they ARE a comedy sketch show, not even a comedy news show like The Daily Show.

What the hell are the clothes doing in Alaska in the first place?

Everyone seems to agree these clothes were intended to be worn while campaigning. If there’s one state Palin did not need to campaign in, it’s Alaska.

“From her cold dead hands.” Those clothes aren’t going anywhere but her closet.

Well given the nature of humanity, it is the slightly used female undergarments that will bring in the big bucks.