Who knew that your donations to a campaign might be put toward outfitting the candidate in designer duds?!? The headline today read: "RNC Spends Thousands on Palin Clothes" and the article began by revealing that they (the Republican National Committee) have spent over $150,000 in under two months to dress Gov. Palin up for the campaign trail.
To put it in a perspective I can relate to personally, that's more than most teachers earn in a year...maybe two or three times as much.
The campaign issued a statement saying they can't believe that with the serious economic issues facing the country right now people are fussing over pantsuits and blouses, and tried to justify the excessive spending by saying it was always their intention that the clothing "go to a charitable purpose" after the campaign.
So I should feel better that she'll only be wearing the outfits once or twice before passing them on to some other less fortunate soul? What's she going to wear if (or, God help us, when) she becomes Vice President? Her old Alaskan Governor clothes? Or will she borrow something from the infamous emperor of fairy tales when she holds a press conference?
Oh, that's right. She doesn't hold press conferences.
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