The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
There’s always been a certain multi-level marketing flavor to the Republican GOP Party. If a lot of their candidates remind you of infomercial hosts, it’s because basically they are. You too can enjoy (success, wealth, esteem, love, real estate fortune) if you too purchase Brand Republican! See, they’ve lifted up an obscure governor and elevated her to unimaginable heights of material plenty. You could be next!
Not that a lot of the hooting and hollering hard right types at her rallies will care. They’re in love, or more accurately (blood) lust, and such passion cannot be constrained by petty concerns over hypocrisy. So she’s standing there extolling the virtues of the “pro-America” parts of the country wearing clothing that costs more than a hundred El Caminos. So what?
She looks marvelous. If only political candidates didn’t have to speak.
Aye, there’s the rub – for in the act of speaking all mortal bonds may break – and then we hear how ill-informed and shallow Palin really is….
Obscene. Just obscene.
You KLOWNS have a bit of a point.
Michelle Obama looks more like she shops at Goodwill….and can only find clothes 3 sizes too small.
@2
I know, almost as obscene as a former Democratic candidate who based his campaign on alleviating poverty living a 28,000-square-foot, $5.3 million mansion set on 102 acres which includes an indoor basketball court, an indoor pool and a handball court. Oh, and he gets $1,250 haircuts, and cheated on his wife while she was battling cancer.
PS, John, your posts are boring.
Sarah Peron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PXSE-Ti0rg
Horses Ass promotes hate, divisiveness, and intolerance. How is this not a hate blog? Can anyone prove that it’s not? Help me. Educate me. This is a left wing hate blog, right?
You’ve been arround long enough to know what HA is Troll.
I wonder where all the anti-eletists are shopping this fall?
How much of that stuff was made in China by our communist enemies?
@3 I’d vote for someone who shops at Goodwill a lot quicker than I’d vote for someone who drops $150K on a wardrobe at Saks or Neiman Marcus. I figure the Goodwill shopper is more likely to care about the price of bread going up.
@4 You got something against success, you fucking communist?
@4-
Oh well. As Steve Martin said, “Some people have a way with words, other people, oh, not have way.”
But I’m a neat guy.
@6 “This is a left wing hate blog, right?”
No. Wingnuts come to this blog to get beat up for sexual gratification and we provide the service they want.
Now that McCain has helped Alaskans get to know their governor better (abusing power, cheating on travel vouchers, taking undisclosed gifts, putting childhood chums in high-paying state jobs, etc.), I wonder if she’ll be a one-term governor?
3
Maybe it’s just me, but if a woman is built well, I don’t mind her wearing clothing 3 sizes too small. This is totally irrelevant, but I think Michelle Obama is far more attractive than Sarah Putin. If I had a date with Sarah, I’d leave during dinner to go to the bathroom and not return.
@6
Well if you mean that a lot of posts on here are people getting called names by both left *and* right, and a lot of exposing right wing hate.. Yeah, this is a hate blog..
Weren’t you the one who earlier today told me to stick my “pc horse shit up your ass?” Oh yeah, that was you. Thanks for contributing your hate…
Hmmm. I remember when Mr. Cynical said “Rossi will be like Palin”.
The sense of entitlement to huge shopping trips to clothes, cars, interior decorating – all the trappings of royalty.
By coincidence, the news stories about Palin’s $150K wardrobe and her bilking the Alaska treasury for her kids’ personal travel broke on the same day.
The juxtaposition of these incidents against a backdrop of national economic pain create the worst possible symbolism for the McCain campaign. This could blow up his campaign — and blow the election wide open.
I won’t be surprised if a massive defection of moderate voters from the McCain camp occurs in the next few days. Even before this happened, some polls suggested McCain was entering the home stretch with Goldwater-like numbers.
It’s pretty sad to watch videos of some of those McCain/Palin rallies. You see people showing up dressed in their best and you can tell some of them are struggling. I wonder how they will feel about that $20 they sent in if they ever get to see this report. Instead of going for 1/20th of a new pair of boots for the first dude, it could have bought the kids some new shoes….
I’ve always wondered how the republicans can get people to vote against their economic interests in the name of something that doesn’t even have anything to do with them. Even after reading “What’s the Matter With Kansas” I still am a little puzzled. Like gay marriage, abortion and terrorism have much to do with any place in Oklahoma…
@15 A wingnut complaining about hate is like a Republican complaining about taxes …
@18 When you understand that you’ll be ready to understand why so many Germans followed an Austrian ex-Army corporal and paperhanger. You humans are weird, and we rabbits have known that for a long time.
troll,
Who got a $1,200 haircut? You really need to get the meds adjusted. I think you should try more. I think your reality is just not altered enough.
And troll, you are no Democrat. You are a Republican talking point spewer, but you anything but a Democrat. A goat fucker? Yep! A lying race baiter? Sure enough.
17 – Yep, the hockey mom is a tax cheat and an abuser of State funds.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/165012
Of course every wingnut dreams of doing stuff like this. They’re cheering her every step of the way.
And Rossi? He’ll be just like Palin.
bwahahahahahaha.
$150,000 from sources that are exactly known.
$150,000,000 from completely unidentified sources, in small bills no less.
Man, if I would have only bombed a little more (sic), I would be doing 1000x better.
@21
My Left Foot, you asked me who got a $1200 haircut. John Edwards did. Here’s the proof.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....9277.shtml
24:
A campaign financed by the people, not the special interests.
Amazing, ain’t it?
As for the $150,000 for clothing, well, not so much.
troll at 25:
You left out that that included airfare to Atlanta from L.A. and for two days of missed work.
Edwards is a very wealthy man. Lots of celebs like their hair cut by one person and fly them around.
He earned the money representing the little guy against insurance companies and such. I say let him spend it any way he chooses.
McCain has the money for such a luxury. He just does not have the hair.
Haven’t seen Stupes in a while.
His favorite Murdoch publication admitted a little boo-boo.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10.....134490.htm
Why admit it? Lying is like breathing to a bottom-dwelling Murdoch rag.
@28 You gotta give the NY Post credit for knowing how to write a flashy retraction:
“The source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too. Bread and water would be too good for such disinformation.”
(ROFLMAO under fair use.)
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Maybe they know better now than to rely on rightwing “sources.”
GOPer’s ‘Anti-American’ Slur Backfires
Batshit-crazy rightwing Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann should have kept her stupid mouth shut. Her slam against Obama’s “anti-American views” is going to cost her her job and increase the Democratic House majority by another seat.
“Bachmann’s comment uncorked a gusher of donations to her opponent, transforming a race she had been favored to win into one more worry spot for Republicans.
“Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg said his campaign brought in $810,000 in less than 72 hours, an amount he could only have imagined before Bachmann’s remarks. It took the former state transportation commissioner a year to raise $1 million before that, and Bachmann started the campaign’s critical final month with almost four times as much cash as he had.
“Before Friday’s ‘Hardball’ aired, Bachmann was favored to win a second term despite being one of Minnesota’s most polarizing political figures. … National Democrats, sensing opportunity, announced Monday they would pour $1 million into TV ads in the district ….
“The comments also prompted Republican Aubrey Immelman, who lost to Bachmann in the primary, to say he would wage a write-in campaign.”
(Quoted from Newsweek under fair use.)
Roger Rabbit Commentary: It sure looks like America is up to here with wingnuttery. Let the purges being!
This is really funny.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.c.....015302.php
For all those stupid wingnuts who read NewsWhacks – yeah the right wing whackjobs.
@31 What else can you expect from the Black Helicopter Brigade?
Well, it’s been a rough two weeks for the wingnuts! Nothing’s going right for them! Their best option now is to pray for the Rapture to get here ASAP!
33 – I’ll join in.
Let us pray.
Dear God,
These silly wingnuts who buy those crappy Tim Le Haye books believe you’re going to beam them up.
Do it already! Please! I’m asking nice.
Please. Beam. Them. Up.
Amen
@ 5
I think that would be Evita Palin.
“Don’t cry for me, Oh Wasilla!”
You gotta love this zapporo critter. John McCain doesn’t have to actually prove that he’s paying someone to enter every $5 check from the Aunt Tilly’s of America, despite the fact that doing so would wipe out most of those small donations. Zapporo will simply take John McCain’s word on that one.
But this Obama guy, Zapporo doesn’t trust Obama. Nope. Can’t do that. Obama’s too shady a character for zapporo to let him get by with merely complying with campaign finance laws.
Gotta love the double standard there.
By the way, wasn’t zapporo the one who made some snide comment about the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday? That was almost as good as delbert and the New Mexico GOP’s fraudulent claims about voter fraud.
Damn, but these Republicans sure have a hard time getting their facts straight.
wags, supposition and assumptions @36 –
Thanks. I am here to stand in as your social conscience as you obviously have none.
Beluga caviar is the most politically incorrect food on the face of the earth. But I guess the sturgeon don’t matter if it’s Michele Obama; anything goes, according to you, right?
No, I’m not a big fan of $150K of dresses and Dior. But how important is that when $150 million arrives in a single month in small unmarked bills with 0 accountability?
That my friend is a much larger ethical dilemma.
You cannot possibly be serious about “doing so would wipe out most of those small donations”? That small feat is accomplished millions of times each day. Ever heard of ATMs? electronic fund transfers? How about Paypal?
Back to you Joe.
zap, my man, the Mrs Obama not only did not stay in the hotel as reported by the NYPOST, she also did not order the caviar.
But don’t let facts get in the way of your posting.
zap,
As for the $150m in donations. In America, in the America that I live in, when one is accused of wrongdoing it is the accuser who must prove the wrongdoing. Throwing out what ifs does not qualify as proof. Bring us receipts, bring us IP addresses, bring us bank account numbers…….
I know, it was all anonymous so there has to be a crime. Never mind that in polls Obama is kicking your boy’s ass. You know, a poll where money has nothing to do with it, no one buys polls, dipwad.
hint of fungus @39 –
You kind of jumped off the deep end there.
It would be more accurate to say that McCain is your moderate democrat that you are now cannibalizing with $150 million from who knows where.
Confusing MILF with VPOTUS is never a good thing.
@37 “I am here to stand in as your social conscience as you obviously have none.”
How about if we put you on retainer and let you know when your counsel is needed? While you’re waiting, enjoy the crickets chirping.
@37 (Part 2) “Beluga caviar is the most politically incorrect food on the face of the earth. But I guess the sturgeon don’t matter if it’s Michele Obama; anything goes, according to you, right?”
See #29 above, idiot! In every group there’s one individual who’s always last to get the word. That would be you.
@37 (Part 3) All donation reporting laws have been complied with. (Don’t you think the Bushevik dominated FEC would be all over Obama’s staff if they weren’t?) So, go fuck yourself.
@40 “from who knows where”
From America, dipshit. Are you too thick to grasp that the citizens of a country where 80% of the populace thinks the Current Occupant is doing a stinking job are fed up with the party that gave us 8 years of corruption, fraud, incompetence, and an endless stream of disastrous failures are ready to do anything — including donating money — to see that party gone?
@40
Me for one. I donated to Obama. I’m also voting for him. Also voted a straight democratic ticket.
Where does zapporo live? Some basement where the Faux Noise and the Limbaugh is blasting 24/7?
REALITY is measured in millions upon millions DISGUSTED with right wing corruption and misgovernance.
Factless @ 37
Looks like folks have pointed out your factual faux pas WRT Michelle Obama and the Waldorf-Astoria, so let’s deal with this:
You cannot possibly be serious about “doing so would wipe out most of those small donations”?
Quite serious. You see, squirt, there’s still a large portion of the population that writes checks. And your suspension of disbelief regarding McCain’s contribution disclosures requires us to also believe that the McCain campaign is paying someone to enter all of those checks into their database regardless of the size of the check.
According to the RNC, there’s really no problem with all that designer apparel. They’re going to donate the clothes to charity after the election is over.
“Let them eat Versace,” she said.
Oh, can you imagine THAT charity auction? Bid to get a blouse worn by Palin! Act now!
proud leftist spews:
Really PL??
You find Michelle Obama far more attractive than Sarah Palin?? Politics aside, Sarah is hard to beat in my book.
Next time you see a Michelle Obama picture (untouched up)…try to consider her naked and get back to me on that.
I mean Michelle is certainly not ugly…but has kind of a hard face and weird body shape.
I guess if you are into that PL, you got the RIGHT Gal!
9. Roger Rabbit spews:
“@3 I’d vote for someone who shops at Goodwill a lot quicker.”
I thought rabbits ran around neked!!!
Why would a naked rabbit care about clothes anyway!
Michelle Obama is a DOMINATRIX.
Sarah Palin is a ….shiner & a spinner!
I t comes down to whatever floats your boat.
You LEFTISTS obviously like women who will tie you up, slap you around..perhaps even spank you???
Actually, the figure being reported to today is in excess of $177,000 being spent by the Republicans on Sarah Palin’s dress, hair, and grooming – apparantly all during the month of September. I wonder what the October numbers will reveal.
The campaign is trying damage control by claiming that they “always intended” to donate the clothes to some charitable purpose after the campaign. I had to laugh at that one – I imagined some homeless lady wearing a red designer suit dress worth thousands of dollars which had been donated to Goodwill. But I guess they mean that they will auction her clothes and donate the proceeds to charity – which I’m sure was never Palin’s expectations at the time.
Aside from the rather impressive expenditure on someone who claimed the be a “regular gal”, one of the things which brings this into focus is that it was paid from funds of either the McCain campaign or the GOP party funds. Use of such funds for “personal exependitures” is illegal. When Edwards was so roundly criticized for having a couple of haircuts for around $400, it was because the campain mistakenly paid the bill, and Edwards had to reimburse the campaign. I haven’t heard Sarah Palin yet say that she intended to reimburse the campaign for her dresses.
Of course, I’m sure she didn’t think of this issue at all. Her short time as a weathergal, and as a beauty contestant, probably had her thinking that any “investment in her image” was an appropriate expense to be paid by whoever else benefited (contest sponsors, TV station, whatever). Her billing the state for personal travel by her children indicates a similar thought process. She probably didn’t think at all about whether she should be the one paying for it.
rhp–
My guess is a lot of this stuff will be auctioned off…however, I think the Republican Party needs to keep the proceeds.
Obama has promised his BIG GOVERNMENT will be the source of future charity…so let him do it. Why should we??
boy…cynical’s a kinky bastard isn’t he?
…who knew…
…oh yeah…
Typical rethuglicant sexual repression….
cyniclown has it all wrong too.
Palin is the freak between the sheets. I am guessing she makes Todd get all “Marv Albert” while she dresses up as Cruella DeVille.