As that wonderful and intelligent Mika Brzezhinski keeps saying, how on earth can you people expect Palin to afford quality clothing on a governmental salary? She can’t be earning but a very low six figures as the governor of Alaska! It’s just so unfair to expect that that money will allow her to dress in anything but rags. It’s not as though she made a big deal about her just plain folks image during the campaign either–she clearly identified herself with the elites, who dress themselves like zillionaires and pay no attention to the price tags. It’s deeply offensive to ask her to dress like a person of the middle class when her educational background, her income tax bracket, and her sophisticated ways clearly place her in the very topmost of top drawers. What, are you all socialists or something? Palin should abide by Marx’s dictum “From each according to her ability to pay…”? Fuck the poor. Fuck the middle classes. The only ones who should get cool stuff for free are the rich, or maybe just the super-rich. That’s capitalism, baby!!
And here we have the most rational statement I have seen on this thread.
But I guess this thread is a good way to let those of you who are at crescendo peek of hatred for your American fellows that you continue to spew nastiness at a woman for daring to call Obama on anything in public.
Realize of course she was doing the job they brought her in to do. Letting them dictate who you will be angry at in the aftermath is quite naive.
What a load of crap. Palin is an opportunist? She’s a diva? This is the woman who sold off a private jet and flies commercial. Divas LIKE private jets. So do opportunists. She sold off the governor’s limousine and got rid of the private driver, and drives herself to work in a Volkswagen. If you’ve seen pictures of her in her own clothes, you’ll know that she doesn’t exactly buy high-end clothing. Her family still lives in Wasilla and she commutes to the big city, instead of living in a Governor’s mansion.
The RNC had to buy Palin a wardrobe precisely because she’s NOT a Diva. Her own clothes just weren’t up for the kind of world in which people who come to your fundraising dinners are wearing $100,000 pearls and designer clothing. She would have looked like a schlub. And since she’s actually from the middle class and not wealthy like Hillary or Kay Bailey Hutchison or most other women in national politics, there was no way she could afford to buy the kinds of clothes she needed.
So the RNC bought the clothes, and now she’s given them back or will be expected to pay for anything she keeps. I actually think that’s pretty tacky of the RNC. Do you have any idea how much money she raised for them? Millions. The least they could have done was let her keep those clothes and been gracious about it. And for people to attack her over this issue is just another example of how deranged people have become over Sarah Palin.
By the way, public figures are loaned clothes all the time. A lot of the time they keep them. it’s to a fancy designer’s advantage to have the world know that the powerful wear his or her clothing. When you see a woman giving a national address, and there are $500,000 pearls around her neck, there’s a good chance that those belong to someone else. Hillary Clinton wore the ‘Kahn Canary’, a multi-million dollar diamond, and even had a special setting made for it, so she had it for a while.
The people that really come off looking bad in all this are the ‘insiders’ who are attempting to trash her for their own reasons.
Come to think of it, this might not be the fault of the RNC. They probably can’t let her keep those clothes, or it would be a campaign contribution and in violation of federal election laws. My guess is that the way this is usually done is that the RNC makes a ‘loan’ to get around campaign laws, and then never really goes to any trouble to get the ‘loaned’ material back, and the whole issue is quietly forgotten. In this case, enough noise has been made that they’ll probably have to take it all back and sell it for pennies on the dollar - maybe back to Palin.
I suspect that any clothes Palin actually wore could be auctioned off for dollars on the penny.
I am pretty certain that she would not buy them for any price now… so the dollars on the penny auction looks like the way to go. They have no value in Alaskan lifestyle anyway.
“not wealthy” my ass.
Just a stupid screw up, IMHO. The RNC should have just said they were a gift to her and someone could have paid the taxes and that would have been the end of it. It was the ridiculous hypocrisy, all part and parcel of “presenting” Sarah Palin as being something she isn’t. I shudder to think, but I do think it, that had they left her alone to be herself, she might not have turned off so many people and might, right now, be Vice-President-elect.
So does Palin.
Put down the Kool- Aid Sam.
That way, she can charge a per diem for staying at home.
Oh, puh-leeze. She was the governor of the state – she had a perfectly good professional-woman wardrobe already. You make it sound as if she was discovered out on the tundra garbed in moose pelts accessorized with wolf teeth.
Behold the Republican who resorts to class-warfare rhetoric!
Campaign finance laws are such a drag.
Well, then, the RNC should have talked to one of those fancy designers and struck a deal.
Bookmarked under “Sam Stone’s Admission That The RNC Routinely Circumvents The Law”.
According to McCain unless you have at least 5 mil you are not wealthy. (liquidateable funds not assets)
Especially campaign finance laws sponsored by, and named after, your running mate.
I am busy [del]forging[/del] [del]manufacturing[/del] preparing one for posting right now. Here’s some vidcaps.
Uh, the people calling her a “diva,” and a “whack job” and some downright unflattering terms are your folks, Sam. Republicans. McCainites. You know, the salt of the earth: morons.
That’s the way we like it. You tear each other up, and defend yourselves, while other tighty-righties are gnawing on your ankles.
Tastes yum, don’t it?
Further, under “hoist with your own petard,” let’s examine, shall we, exactly why and how her clothing and her appearance generally became so prominent a subject in the campaign, so much so that this story has considerable legs: she was chosen by McCain because he wanted ink, lots of it, rivers of it, flowing non-stop, and immediately, and he figured the best way to get that would be to shine a spotlight on his VP, announcing her on the Friday after Obama’s nomination, and choosing a hot-looking young woman whose physical appearance certainly set tongues a-waggin’ (and McCain’s eyes a-wandering’) to a greater degree than with any other VP candidate in history. We never wondered where Fritz Mondale bought his suits because we never noticed that he was wearing one, or wearing one different from the one he always wore. And Mondale didn’t get the buzz that Palin did, precisely because zero attention was being paid–and rightly so–to how he looked, and what he wore, and all that crap.
You were loving it when her appearance got your guys weeks of very favorable pub–this is the other side of that pub. Deal with it.
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Are you actually posting this as a rebuttal to Sam? No this supports his argument. Anyone that knows even the slightest, smallest, tiniest bit about Alaska knows that people fly everywhere, and that she would have had to charter someone’s plane to do it, so she chartered the state’s plane. Good for her, I am glad she found a way to save money, as prop planes are much less expensive than jets.
Considering Sam’s from Canada, they wouldn’t be his people at all-nor would it be his tax dollars, or donations at stake here. :dubious:
I think it’s still safe to refer to tighty-righties as Sam’s folks–ideology knows no national boundaries. (Neither does Palin, of course.)
Where did I refer to tax dollars or donations?
Yes, it certainly is a rebuttal to Sam, as Sam was the one who said:
She is not “flying commercial”, she’s still using a state plane.
And, apparently, getting involved in some squabbles over it as well:
THAT part wasn’t directed at you, but at those who were saying that Sarah Palin had every right to spend so much on designer clothing and accessories for her entire family-when she knew damned well she wasn’t going to be able to keep it.
I should have been a wee more clear, I appologize. 
What’s the big deal about Palin’s clothes?
Honestly who really gives a fuck?