Heckuva job, RNC
Ugh.
This is the number one story in the blogosphere right now:
Yes, Joe Biden is imploding, but Sarah Palin’s RNC-funded wardrobe budget is the headline. The libs are claiming that some unnamed Republican National Committee donors and members are “disgusted” by the expenditures.
Are you surprised? The RNC has squandered its time and money on a lot of stupid things.
I’m with Mark Tapscott:
Every time I think the campaign professionals at the Republican National Committee can’t possibly do anything else to sink the party, they do something else that simply defies logical explanation. Like taking a candidate who epitomizes Middle American values and spending $150,000 to dress her up in Saks Fifth Avenue finery.
Apparently, they just couldn’t stand the thought of a GOP candidate for vice president actually wearing the same clothes on the campaign trail that she wears in real life. No, they had to go make her look like … one of them.
Did nobody over there think it through and realize doing this would hand Obama and the Democrats the last perfect piece of evidence of how out of touch Republicans are with the real world?
Heckuva job, RNC.
Here is the real Sarah, pre-RNC makeover:
Fortunately for the party makeover consultants, it doesn’t matter what she’s wearing.
She’s got something special that money can’t buy.
SNL’s Lorne Michael acknowledges it:
“I think Palin will continue to be underestimated for a while. I watched the way she connected with people, and she’s powerful. Her politics aren’t my politics. But you can see that she’s a very powerful, very disciplined, incredibly gracious woman. This was her first time out and she’s had a huge impact. People connect to her…
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please explain what is hypocritical about it??
she’s not a holier-than-thou liberal who cares for the poor
With the whiny left it doesnt matter, they would ridicule her for whatever she was wearing whatever the cost….. wonder what Blackwell would say… oh wait.
Then why are you on this thread. Because, “honestly”, you should be here.
Yes. Essentially because they believe he’ll hasten American’s financial decline, in part due to his hawkish stance on the war. In their own words, per the article, because he will continue the “failing march of his predecessor.”
Too soon, aj. Too soon.
so AQ guys not only sound like liberal democrats, they’re as delusional as liberal democrats!!
aj,
Speaking of picking Gov. Palin as his running mate, did you happen to catch Boortz today? He played some soundbites from Imus’ show which were very enlightening. I haven’t been able to find a link yet, but one of his guys went to Harlem and started asking people who they were voting for. When each of them answered “Obama”, he said to them: “is it because he’s prolife and for keeping the troops in Iraq?” They all responded “yes”. Then he asked them if they were happy with Sarah Palin being his VP and they all answered “yes”. It would have been funny except they all said they didn’t like McCain’s stance on the issues, so they were voting for Obama!!!!!!!
Ultimate irony. It’s win/win for SaraCuda (and misery for Palin haters):
Either she’s going to be the next Vice President or she can make millions of dollars as a celebrity over the next few years.
Because you cannot (or rather you can, as the RNC clearly has, but more precisely maybe, you should not) impugn Democratic candidates for what you deem wasteful spending on their appearances, and then do the same for your own.
John McAmnesty: “Whether I have to go back to the United States Senate,” he said, “which I don’t believe I will, or go to the presidency, the issue of comprehensive immigration reform will be among my highest priorities.”</strong>
God, I hate this guy.
Well, I gave them money and I sure hope they do spend it on her clothes, the more the better! And yes dahling, she looks vonderfull!
No, Sarah Palin doesn’t prattle on about the poor. But she does run around pretending to be an every-man, calling herself a regular hockey mom and professing her love for small-town, ‘real’ Americans. And whomever she’s speaking of, they’re most certainly not blowing $150k in two and a half months on their clothing bills.
Do you still think Edwards’ haircut was a legitimate issue?
To Lefty hypocrites like you, everything is a story about Republican hypocrisy.
Ted Kennedy owing his own oil company? Your hypocrisy detector goes on the blink. The five hundred million dollar man pretending to be a blue-collar Joe? You see nothing. Obama and the Democrats saying ’screw that’ to the public finance system? You see no hypocrisy there!
But a GOP VP candidate dressing in the same manner as other similar candidates, and suddenly your finely tuned senses spring to life.
Self-awarness is not a liberal trait.
Navy, yeah, in e mails soap keeps reminding me of the stupid factor.
I want to hire whoever did the wardrobe for Sarah Palin.
Well Palin still looks good anyway you slice it.
Hey Val, you want to hire the RNC…. lol.
Digshot, why aren’t you lecturing us about how the evil white man created AID’s to kill the bothers?
Where did that come from? Boy am I glad I didn’t give in and vote for him.
as usual you don’t understand what is going on, I’ll try to explain, but I doubt you’ll get it. Edwards, and other democrats, come across as populists, ‘we’re just like you po folk’ politicians. he talks about ‘2 americas’ and how much he ‘cares’ for the poor. He also rails against the rich, and wants more taxes to ‘care’ for the poor. So when he has a $400 haircut it is hypocritical.
but its not when republicans do, because they don’t have this faux ‘compassion’, that democrats do.
its like gore with his green ‘gospel’ having a huge house…get it?
probably not. sigh.
Well, that’s true.
Tell me you wouldn’t be up in arms if Michelle Obama was a member of an Illinois secessionist group?
I regret Sarah Palin is being wasted on the likes of the RNC and John McCain.
Palin/Jindal 2012 baby. A pity the system will be fully corrupted by then and no conservative will ever be elected again. We will be Zimbabwe West. “You say you want a revolution… ?”
if someone wants to spend 150k on my clothes, do you think I’d complain?
again, where is the hypocrisy? there isn’t any. just like everything else on the left, its smoke and mirrors…
I have a rather intimate friend
from zimbabwe…and she thinks we are headed in that direction…
Yes because he was the one talking about the two Americas. Duh.
what do you think the weather underground was? a violent revolutionary group that wanted to overthrow the government…thats why we’re upset with obama’s link with ayers…
For the first time in my adult life I’d be proud of her.
Digshot, why aren’t you lecturing us about how the evil white man created AID’s to kill the bothers?
Strange how you keep pretending not to see this now matter how many times I post it.
Are you kidding? Sarah Palin hasn’t said there are two Americas? How do you interpret her ‘Real America’ statements? She hasn’t been insisting that she’s just a regular person, like Joe Six-Pack?
Are you kidding?
The difference in appearance of a $400 dollar haircut vs a $40 dollar haircut = nothing. The difference in the appearance of a suit bought at Sears and an Armani…HUGE
Let me get this straight. Edwards, who is a millionaire, talks about “two Americas”, but gets $400 haircuts and builds a 23,000 square foot house. Because he is a liberal democrat, he got a pass from his fellow Dems. Gov. Palin gets a wardrobe worth $150,000. No, it’s not exactly what some of us would like to hear about, but considering all the crap she’s gotten for her clothes, hair, accent, etc. I can see why they’d want her to look very professional. How exactly does this make Palin a hypocrite?
It kills me how some of you don’t see the hypocrisy in what Edwards does and how he lives his life. It’s the same attitude these liberals who tell us to ride bikes to work and use one square of toilet paper per visit to the bathroom. Do as I say and not as I do.
I have no desire to even speak about Edwards, but since he’s the proverbial whipping boy today…
Uh, Sarah Palin is everyman – and you know it. She’s not pretending anything, and that’s why the media is after her, and that’s why they also attack Joe the Plumber. You can’t have it both ways. She has been criticized for being a red neck, trailer trash rube, but God forbid if she buys some nice clothes for her campaign.
So what if she got $150,000.00 for new clothes? I bet Todd used some of it for some new suits as well. And maybe they bought Piper, Willow, Bristol, and Trig some new clothes for the campaign trail too. So?
And yes, Edwards’ $400.00 haircut is an issue in light of his hypocritical rhetoric. You just admitted that. So why are you begging the question? Never mind. I know why you are.
Speaking of campaign fashion, has anyone noticed that Hillary went back to wearing expensive cocktail-party clothes as soon as her campaign was over, but made an appearance at the convention in her tacky “working girl” pantsuit at the convention, and then of course went back to being good old Hillary?
Personally I don’t give a crap what the candidates are wearing or how much it costs. I just found it amusing that the money was also going to glam up the kids – including Trig!
she’s not talking about economic status, like Edwards was. I interpret that as the ideologic split in this country.
No wonder Sheryl can’t seem to keep a boyfriend..
LOL… now THAT is Freudian! Bothers! lol
Not for some. That old ‘queen’ was disgusting and claimed to have had affairs with Tyrone Power, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott. Yeeeeeccchhhh!
He did have some level of committment though. He was with his ahem ‘life partner’, Robert Spencer, for 60 years.
I feel the need to go wash the slime off of me now! Wait, can I say that? It is not very P.C. you know. Like I give a rat’s … bodypart.
Basically she is. She and her husband are Marxists which are, by definition, secessionist and seditious. Their philosophy is in direct conflict with the Constitution. Once America goes Socialist we will see all the world economies go into permanent decline. We were the last engine of personal and economic liberty. America kept the world afloat, that is until Congressional Marxists fully implemented their redistributionist plans in the form of the Great Financial Collapse of 2008.
Good luck with that socialist thing though. Frank Raines for Treasury Secretary!
Edwards is a Democrat. By defintion he can never be a hypocrite. Look at Al Gore living in house that burns as much electricty as a small town while lecturing us about global warming. You think it ever occurs to these phony hypocrisy police to give him a summons?
By lefty definition, only Republicans can be hypocrites.
umm, I would think it might kind of piss off some of our Republican candidates who have been seeing their campaign funds cut.
Saw that coming.
You’re 100% right. The drip only got a “conscience” after he figured out the only way he could beat Hillary and Barack would be to run way to the left of them in the primaries. He made income disparity an issue, and we have every right to call him out for his own hypocrisy.
Just as when Palin made being a good mom a reason why she should be VP, we have every right to call her out for dragging her kids around during the school year and using them as props for photo ops way past their bedtimes (assuming they have bedtimes).
No, but I’d be really upset if McCain was found to be hanging around with terrorists and America-hating preachers, and getting convicted con-men to help him buy his house. Also if I found out that these people didn’t come looking for him – but that he went looking for them.
Michelle thinks this is a downright mean country, which she has only become proud of recently. I think that is definitely worse than belonging to a secessionist group.
Please show us where Gov. Palin has used the phrase “two Americas”. She says she cares about the working people of this country precisely because she’s part of the middle class. She doesn’t go around talking about how the rich are awful people who don’t care about the little guy. There is absolutely no basis for you or anyone else to call her a hypocrit simply because the RNC purchased a wardrobe for her to wear.
What’s so bad about secessionists? Frankly, the way this country is going, I’m considering it because I don’t want to live under a Socialist State.
Why can’t you socialists just move to Europe instead of destroying a perfectly great country?
If Obama is elected, I submit that we conservatives should start migrating to red states to keep them red… and perhaps prepare for a schism.
snicker.
Send us better moby’s, please.
Please, God. Please, please, please let this attitude persist among conservatives. It will be so great to see your party humiliatingly swept out of power. A widespread belief that Palin is the future of the party? That’s the cherry on top.
Even stranger is spelling it “AID’s”
uh for libs its ok to kill unborn children, but not to keep them up too late…
That would be an improvement over her being pals with terrorists Ayers and Dohrn.
Good call on lib hypocrisy.
diggy, don’t you know the revolution devours its own first? ask trotsky…
Apparently, you’re the one that’s confused. So try to follow me here: Sarah Palin’s near singular role on the campaign trail has been to play the role of the down-to-Earth mom who’s “just like you.” That’s why she so often speaks of being a Washington outsider, makes family photo-ops central to her campaigning, lauds Joe the Plumber as the everyman in need in protection from Terrible Taxing Dems, why she talks about the “small towns…these wonderful little pockets of what [she] call[s] the real America.” This isn’t new; in fact, in advertising, it has a name: the “humble approach.” And yet, there aren’t many small town dwellers who can afford to spend $150K on clothes — and certainly not in an eight week period. Its smacks of hypocrisy, both for what it reveals about how unlike “real America” the candidate is, but also because the Repubs spent so much time criticizing Edwards and Hillary for the price of their haircuts, yet has spent exponentially more on wardrobes.
Hell no! I’ll contribute towards the ISFARN, or more appropriately, the IALAACB fund. (Illinois Secession From America Right Now, or the, Illinois Already Left And Ain’t Coming Back) And take Ayers, Wright, Daley, Barack and all of the rest of those scumbags with them into their own little sovereign nation. Then we can declare war on them, conquer them and put them all Gitmo so we can make sport of them while they spend the rest of their miserable lives busting huge rocks with ball-peen hammers.
Right, that’s so much stranger than the belief that it was created by white people to kill blacks.
Apparently, the disease’s first victim was a guy named AID.
So, Palin is a bad mother? Wow, what a suprise! I guess having her family with her during this very important, historical time, isn’t educational at all? They probably aren’t getting tutored while on the road, right? Her family is just a photo op and she has no desire to see them or spend time with them while on the road? I have kept my kids up past their bedtime, so I guess I’m a bad mother too.
Nice.
You would let them LIVE?????
Like the L’Oreal commercial says, “She’s worth it”. She looked great all the time, attracted extra attention for setting fashion trends. McCain’s campaign needed a jolt of excitement to equalize the Obamamania.
It was an excellent investment and I heard the clothes will be auctioned off after the campaign, so the RNC stands to make a profit.
Still here?
There are not too many small town dwellers running for VP and appearing on stage and television.
Joe Biden plays the role of “regular Joe” on the Democratic ticket, or tries to. Any guess as to how much his hair plugs cost?
#239, #240
Has the rationalization for your candidate stretched as far as backing seccesionism now? My God, the right is eating itself! What proud patriots you are. Love it or leave it, I guess.
I would give Palin the benefit of the doubt here. Male politicians can be “man of the people” and get away with wearing thousand dollar suits, because that’s what’s expected of them. Unfairly or not, voters expect politicians to look like money even when they expect them to understand their middle class concerns.
It cannot be said better than this. If Edwards’ haircut singularly cancels out his speeches on the stump about the poor, then Palin’s wardrobe singularly cancels out her self-aggrandizement as a regular Joe. If you’re willing to make one of those statements and not the other, you’re a hypocrite.
You just destroyed your own argument. The fact that Sarah Palin could NOT afford new clothes congruous to the office she seeks demonstrates that she is like the rest of us and needed the money to purchase said wardrobe. I would not be surprised if the $150,000. (which is not a lot, taken into context) was also used to purchase shoes and clothing for her family, who is also campaigning.
Again, why are you harping on this thread on a subject with which you claimed that you “don’t care”?
Why are you not on the thread about Obama’s campaign funding fraud?
Hypocrite.
They weren’t paid for by the party.
You’d never catch the Obama family doing something like that, no siree!
The amusing thing is the way all the lefties here screeching about “hypocrisy” are being such completely two faced hypocrites themeselves.
And they, or at least the pathetic “nyk”, are too dim to even realise it.
You know that how?
And by all means, explain why it makes a difference whether the party pays. I mean, the $400 dollar haircut that has you so agitated was paid by Pretty Boy himself.
Obama’s kids go to private school.
Sarah sends her kids to public school.
Who is the elitist, and who is the everyday Joe Six Pack?
Especially when the right — and this very site, in particular — has done so much to criticize Obama for using his kids as “props” while campaigining. But of course, when a Republican candidate does the same, it’s just a nice picture.
At least the McCain/Palin campaign is not stealing campaign funds via credit card fraud.
Any comments, digshot and nyk?
He could not be honest if his life depended on it.
I just got here.
Did Dems pay for:
Uncle Joe’s Botox?
BHO’s nicotine patches?
Michelle’s etiquette classes?
Curious
The RNC doesnt have professionals
This is priceless. Someone save these people from themselves.
So the story of Sarah Palin spending $150,000 on clothes? Brother, it gets better. See, the RNC is required by law to list who exactly bought all the fancy clothes. And all the Sarah Palin fancy purchases—at Barney’s, Bloomingdale’s, and Saks Fifth Avenue—were made by one guy: Jeff Larson. Jeff Larson is one of the men behind FLS Connect, a Republican robocalling firm! They’re famous this cycle for terrible robocalls about Barack Obama and Bill Ayers. And back in 2000, they made their name with robocalls smearing John McCain. It’s funny because John McCain sold his soul and all it got him was a fancy new wardrobe for Sarah Palin.
via Gawker.com.
You know, at the very least, you guys should be mad about this because of the selling out factor. That alone should get you riled up.
Me too, but not as a campaign prop. Her son did his senior year in Michigan to play hockey, her husband didn’t even go to college, and her son-in-law-to-be is dropping out of high school to be an apprentice. This is clearly not a woman who makes education a priority. The Palins are extremely affluent, but they won’t support the father of their future grandkid just to finish high school (if not go to college).
I await your excuses.
watershed:
When you can prove that Larson is an unrepentant terrorist get back to us.
You’ve got to be kidding. THIS is why talking with you is just silly (Note that that’s not true of a lot of conservatives here. But it is for you). After this next response, I’ll just ignore you from here on out. Permanently.
Edwards’ haircut didn’t have me agitated, it had the right — meaning people like you — agitated. And it matters because it implicates both the “down-to-Earth” hockey mom and the party that pretends to be the defender of all the little people.
That is so true. Hannity would implode. What’s more unpatriotic than wanting to secede from the United States?
Even for you, thats carrying the hypocrisy a bit far. Obama’s family were on the cover on magazines in gauzy puff pieces designed to get The One elected. The only time you see Palins kids in a magazine is when your scummy friends in the media are speculating about who the father is.
#273
There are a few people here who apparently think its cool. See #239, #240 for great examples of COUNTRY FIRST!
Planting bombs to kill soldiers and policemen.
Like Obama’s close friends did.
Oh, jeez. The plot thickens, I guess.
Paying for your kids to get a better education isn’t elitist. It’s caring about their future.
We should be so lucky.
Nice to see that you people have taken time out from spitting on the flag long enough to pretend to be devout patriots.
On October 22nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
The Palins are extremely affluent, but they won’t support the father of their future grandkid just to finish high school (if not go to college).
Are you freaking out of your mind? “Extremely affluent”??? Did you take a gander at their tax returns which were released recently? Their 2006 and 2007 tax returns reflect a gross income of less than $200,000! Do you know how much it costs to raise five kids?
Secondly, why should they support someone who is an adult and can take care of himself? You socialists are not only weak, but you’re delusional.
Unless, of course you’re just lying, which is par for the course for libtards.
What exactly is “terrible” about people finding out the facts about Obama’s friends?
I suppose you’ll be calling it “swift-boating” next.
I could care less how much the RNC spent on her appearance. That’s part of the campaign process and quite frankly, in light of how much is costs to run a campaign, $150K is lost in the rounding. Go research what Obama’s suits cost… or Biden’s recent BoTox shots to his face. Who cares…
Did anyone expect Sarah to campaign in hip waders and a fishing vest?
This is an example of the hypocritical left applying its usual double-standard.
According to many of the responses I’ve seen to that question, talking is more unpatriotic. So on the great Republican scale of patriotism, talking is more out there than being an active member in a secessionist organization.
By the way, what’s more out of touch than a candidate actually calling voters “Joe Six Pack?” Who looks in the mirror and says “I’m a Joe Six Pack, just perfectly average.”
That’s something that Mr. Burns (on the Simpsons) says as a derogatory term for the commoner.
I can’t believe anyone on this board is defending public schools. Usually all you hear is the “home school” or “private school” mantra.
So, you Obamatons, how about some comments on Obama’s credit card fraud?
No comments? Excuses?
Maybe they all should bone up on birth control methods.
Show me the Obama campaign perpetrated it and I will comment. I had someone steal my card and make a purchase at a gas station. I did not blame Texaco.
Waterspout
I think #240 is as frustrated as I am to see liberals, such as yourself, trying to change this countries founding principles. If you don’t like the USA, then move to a country that reflects your principles. I know I did, some 25 years ago, I didn’t like how England was going [socialist], so I moved here knowing that I could live in a country that better reflected my principles in life, that is, with hard work and some sacrifices, I could obtain a better life for me and my children.
chapoutier:
Uh, the thread is on this site. Go read it.
A) Palin was never an “active member in a secessionist organization”. Or even an inactive member.
B) Being an active member in a secessionist organization, assuming the organization is peaceful, is a good deal more benign than being an active member in a violent terrorist organization. Like Obama’s friends were.
Since all the America-haters are pretending to be patriots, here is something to chew on.
So criticizing your government, or country is “worse” and less patriotic than wanting to break off from the United States of America all together? Yeah, right. Rightwingers have likely searched high and low for evidence to dispute the past secessionist views of her husband. They can’t, so now they just excuse it/defend it? Unbelieveable. Well you can bet your sweet one that Palin’s primary opponents will make an issue of this if she actually decides to run for president. This blog notwithstanding, I think most conservatives are offended by the notion for wanting to break off from the Union. Wow, just wow.
#288 That was a low blow, but what do you expect from a philosophy that thinks that children are a punishment.
Oh please….. This guy will never get it. He has no common sense.