Gov. Sarah Palin waves to the crowd before dropping the ceremonial first puck prior to the Philadelphia Flyers playing the New York Rangers at Wachovia Center on Oct. 11, 2008.
If politicos weren’t so snide and dismissive of fashionistas, the McCain-Palin campaign wouldn’t be in the awkward position of having to explain the $150,000 tab for shopping trips, hairstyling and beauty makeovers for Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
How do you sell someone as a no-frills hockey mom who sold the state plane and fired the official cook and hunted her own moose meat, and then try to explain wardrobing her in clothes from Neiman Marcus — a store occasionally referred to by aggrieved, frugal shoppers as Needless Markup? How do you, in barely two months, lavish her with fashion swag worthy of a starlet and valued at more than her annual governor’s salary of $125,000?
Why, of course it is.
In her critique of the Palin wardrobe, Post fashion critic Robin Givhan lets slip in passing that Barack Obama’s suits go for $1500 and that Michele wears designer duds all the time (except when appearing on The View when she boasted of wearing an under $200 dress).
Yes the figure of $150,000 is eye-popping, but don’t forget it that it included the whole Palin clan. And finally, I cannot escape the suspicion that one reason everyone is so exercised (other than the obvious, i.e. that she’s a Republican) is that she is so gorgeous in those clothes. There is simply no other woman in political life to match her. The green-eyed monster strikes!
Nope – Crickets.
So, why pick on Palin?
ANSWER:
A sexist double standard, envy and the fact she is a threat to the left and the Obama campaign. Flap does not agree with the left-biased Campbell Brown at CNN very often. But, she has this one RIGHT:
The video link is here.
Update:
Palin’s wardrobe is being donated to charity in any case.
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