Well, it just occurs to me that this tells us how….lacking…Gov. Palin’s previous wardrobe must have been.

I think we should all send thank you notes to the RNC thanking them for spending $150K on clothes for the Palins instead of trying to win congressional elections.

They spent over $4K at some frou-frou store for clothing for the First Dude? I think the He-Man Woman-Haters Club is going to demand he turn in his manliness certification.

As an aside, that self-same Nieman Marcus in Minneapolis is the same Nieman Marcus where Norm Coleman had a suit purchased for him by Minnesota businessman Nasser Kazeminy:

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003661

This would make Minneapolis a center of couture for Republicans, I suppose, but God knows why they pick on Minnesotans.

And if you look at old vids of her, it’s clear that the effect of the Republicans’ makeover was to take someone who—however idiotic her positions—at least looked serious and capable, and turn her into yet another garden-variety RNC spokesbimbo: big hair, too much makeup and ‘way overdressed for the part. They could have spent the weeks after the convention getting her up to speed on a few substantive issues (especially after having decided to pretend she was an “energy expert”); instead, they decided to waste it basically on “packaging” her—and remember, this is someone who looked fine and was already quite talented at dealing with the public (even if the façade was a micron deep).

It’s just part of the general, repeating pattern of the Rs expending a lot of expense and effort in this campaign for the purpose of tripping over their own dicks.

Thank God they’re losing; you can assume a McCain administration would be run the same way as his campaign.

“Can we just call the election now, please?  Please?”

No worries Jesse, I think the republicans have been engaged in that process for some time now.  If they keep doing what they’re doing everything should be fine.

And with that said, I notice here in south central PA that there is a spate of new mcsame commercials as well some from nasty rethug 527.  It’s surprising that mcsame has been losing ground steadily here because he’s spent some serious money to be on TV 24/7.  And that’s fine.  As long as the RNC is pumping cash into this corpse of a campaign, they’re not sending it to their congressional candidates.

If Palin loses the election, does she get to keep the clothes?

$150,000? Do you know how much arugula you could buy with that kind of bank?

Cindy McCain’s outfit at the Rethuglican convention cost $300,000.  Spending just half of that to outfit Sarah’s entire (huge) family for ten weeks is incredibly frugal by GOP standards.

I’m past the half-century mark, and I doubt I’ve spent more than a tenth that much on clothes my entire life.

Apparently Jesse, Pandagon is one of the more “demented” blogs:

Some lefty readers of the Pandagon site (a more demented site I have not seen) demand I apologize. I tell ya what…I will do as Franklin Foer from TNR did once the Scott Beauchamp stories he printed turned out to be lies….Issue a retraction and NOT apologize. Why? Because it just has to be true somehow right?

Don’t need a receipt from a fancy hotel to know that the Obama’s are elitist’s who think all of us regular folk are just bitter gunnuts clinging to religion.

Love how he spouts off shit like it’s real and then when his ass gets handed to him he ducks and covers to, “Well, they’re elitist SOMEHOW!.....(under his breath) N***gers”

Oi. As long as McCain doesn’t win Nov 4th can’t come fast enough.

If McCain wins I will get shit-faced drunk for as long as my money holds out.

Hopefully I won’t need any bucks for ammo come the revolution.

If Palin’s red leather jacket is part of that expenditure it was cash ill spent. It makes her look even more like a doofus than she would have done otherwise. As with most of their policy shakiness, it makes me wonder how many Republican operatives are working for our side.

Don’t need a receipt from a fancy hotel to know that the Obama’s are elitist’s who think all of us regular folk are just bitter gunnuts clinging to religion.

Us here reglar folks whut dont use them faincy apostrophes correctly.

Newsflash: I do think you are a bitter gunnut, asshole.  You don’t speak for me.

Where did Jesse demand that this guy apologize?  He just called out the lie.

“Some lefty readers of the Pandagon site (a more demented site I have not seen) demand I apologize. I tell ya what…I will do as Franklin Foer from TNR did once the Scott Beauchamp stories he printed turned out to be lies….Issue a retraction and NOT apologize. Why? Because it just has to be true somehow right?”

I don’t suppose it would do much to good to send our wingnutty friend to read Spencer Ackerman’s piece, which severely undermines the case against against Beauchamp.

http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/08/scott_beauchamp_the_new_republic_scandal_01.php

I have a tape which proves Michelle Obama wasn’t at the Waldorf Astoria at the relevant time because she was in Kenya killing whitey.

I think it says everything you need to know about Palin that she is being compared to Michelle Obama and not Joe Biden.

Got qualifications?

Michelle Obama wasn’t at the Waldorf eating caviar because she was eating Nation of Islam bean pies with Angela Davis and Ward Churchill. Or was that last week. I can’t keep this stuff straight.

Wonder if she billed the state of ALaska for the kiddies Xian Right outfits -you know they are on official business as RNC props.

Don’t need a receipt from a fancy hotel to know that the Obama’s are elitist’s who think all of us regular folk are just bitter gunnuts clinging to religion.

Elitists who manage to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, and win financial and political success by their own efforts.

Yes, compared to most jokers on the right, that IS elite.

I don’t really give a rat’s ass about Palin’s clothes but I think this is another instance of what we have always known about Republicans (other than their tragic inability to use apostrophe like elitist’s!).  They don’t really give a rat’s ass about the “common folk.”  In fact they tend to be a bit embarrassed by them, though they’re perfectly happy to have their votes.  Remember their ugly elitism towards “Bubba” Clinton who was, in fact, an example of the American dream—a kid who did raise himself up by his brains (if not his bootstraps)?  Or both of the Obamas who come from pretty humble backgrounds are treated as elitists because they 1) got educations 2) got money (though, of course that is overlaid with the horrendous racial narratives that they are just affirmative action babies who whine and complain to get what they want handed to them.  Unlike folks like Dubya.)

The pick of Palin and the subsequent “make-over” is just more insulting the intelligence of the so-called common folk they court via hate and scapegoating.  They somehow thought they could distract the hoi polloi with a straight-talkin’ golly gee lady from the woods, though the truth is they’re a little embarrassed by her and treat her entirely as a prop.  As someone from bum fuck “real” America I can see—they’re laughing at us even as their sticking out their grubby hands for our votes.

Sorry.  Rant.  I hate faux populism.

Because, as it turns out, Michelle Obama did not order lobster and Iranian caviar at the Waldorf-Astoria.  We know this because she was not staying at the Waldorf-Astoria.  We know this because she was not, I believe, in the state of New York at the time.

She was indeed not in the state of New York on October 15, but in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Fort Wayne, for those Real Americans who have never been invited to one of Fort Wayne’s elite bowling alleys, is an elite haven for the out-of-touch elitists of northeastern Indiana.  Real non-elite Americans, who in northeastern Indiana are confined, Bantustan-like, to non-elite towns like Domestic and Petroleum and Tunker and the giant turtle city of Churubusco *, can only dream of the the vast elite wealth of elite Fort Wayne’s elite, where elite locals often spend $50 shopping for elitist groceries like whole wheat bread and name-brand soft drinks at their choice of elitist grocery stores like Kroger’s or Martin’s, before they get into their elite imported Hondas and drive down elite streets like State Road 930 on their elite way to their elite ranch houses where they can sit on their elite couch and watch elite movies from elite stores like Blockbuster on elite DVDs while sipping their elite Pepsi like the elite elitists they are.  Elite elite elite.

Also, they hate America.

* (Giant turtles?  Not elite.)

If anyone wants to see the inside of ugly wingnut minds, one need to go no further than the comment thread at Flopping Aces…numerous nasty comments about Michelle being big, black and ugly and possessing a big ass.

The smell of rotting carrion and leaking sewage there is so strong I can nearly smell it through the tubes…check it out if you want to see how the right wing mind works (or doesn’t!)

So much for the party of Pat Nixon’s cloth coat.

PS Please remove the nasty remark by Ginger Yellow in the above thread…it belongs at Flopping Aces, and not here…THANKS!

wagonjak, I’m pretty sure Ginger Yellow was being sarcastic.

What I do find galling is Palin waltzing around like she’s some sort of everyday person, but without the momjeans.

Indeed.  And parading herself as this fiscal conservative who cuts back on perks for herself to “put the people first”, although her record on that is very mixed indeed. 

I don’t have any problem with them packaging her; that’s how this stuff works.  It does, however, bring to mind a certain saying about glass houses.

What’s funny is her hair and makeup costs are about half of what it costs to belt-sand the lizard sheen off of McCain every month.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

What amazes me every single time is that lots and lots of people still fall for the blatantly fake populism of the Republican Party hook, line and sinker. I mean, it’s just so damn transparent. Seriously, how dumb do they have to be?

But Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime that we have got is honestly ours.

And you know, the kids, like all kids, loved the dog, and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.

Richard M. Nixon – “Checker’s Speech”

I think it says everything you need to know about Palin that she is being compared to Michelle Obama and not Joe Biden.
Got qualifications?

Michelle Obama is vastly more qualified than Sarah Palin.  Palin is qualified to be a news anchorwoman.  Obama is qualified to be a high powered lawyer.  Who would you rather have in government?

Anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, check out the vicious Daily Show evisceration of Wasilla.  I think it aired day before yesterday.  The mayor of Wasilla does nothing but hold once-a-week meetings and sign checks, and the current occupant of the office is delusional enough to think that she and Palin are qualified to be Vice President.

Oh, and Michelle Obama regularly wears clothes from the Gap and H&M;.  Elitist.  Sure.

Anyone who buys clothes anywhere other than Walmart is elitist.  Duh!

Oh, and if you’re black, if you ever buy clothes at all, then you’re definitely elitist.  Black people who know their place get all their clothes from a church coat drive and are THANKFUL to have even that.

The Daily Show segment on Wasilla was awesome.  The guy who explains that 9/11 showed that people in small towns are better than people in cities, the “churchgoing man” who has nude pictures of his ex-wife and his ex-mistress tattooed on his arm…how did they find these people?

To be fair, I’m sure the mayor of Wasilla does more than hold meetings and sign cheques.  I mean, Sarah Palin must have done something to accumulate $23 million in debt.

Ms Kate - I’m guessing Michelle Obama has a really great tailor.  I also notice that in public appearances she tends to wear skirts and dresses - probably because it’s much easier to have an off-the-rack dress or skirt tailored to fit a tall slim frame than it is to find the right inseam in pants.

And yet they don’t have enough money to make McCain look cool.