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Palin got $30K more in clothes
Politico ^ | 04 Dec 2008 | Kenneth P. Vogel

Posted on 12/04/2008 2:25:50 PM PST by BGHater

The Republican National Committee will report Thursday that it spent about another $30,000 on clothes and accessories for Sarah Palin during her vice presidential bid, a GOP source tells Politico.

Palin took a major public relations hit when Politico revealed that the RNC in September shelled out $150,000 for clothes and accessories from high-end retailers for the Alaska governor, who built her political persona around a folksy, regular-gal demeanor.

The additional spending will be detailed on the committee's post-general election report, which is due to be filed with the Federal Election Commission before midnight.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clothes; gop; palin; rnc
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Michelle could take a clue from Sarah, and dump that black widow dress, and half/half. could start dressing like the up coming POTUS, I liked it when the Bush Presidents dressed out of respect for the office.


21 posted on 12/04/2008 2:33:53 PM PST by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: BGHater

As opposed to $30,000 for a ring.


22 posted on 12/04/2008 2:34:00 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: BGHater

I want a total list spent by the Obama campaign on Obama’s and Michelle’s clothing. Until then, I will consider this sexist.


23 posted on 12/04/2008 2:34:21 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
So how much did Barry and Michelle’s clothes cost and who paid for those?

I believe that Barry is not required to report to the FEC, since he did not accept public financing.

That also goes for all those bogus donations, many of them probably from foreign sources.

The difference in how the two campaigns are treated is courtesy of McCain-Feingold.

24 posted on 12/04/2008 2:35:06 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: BGHater

BFD

Someone at AP needs to get a life.


25 posted on 12/04/2008 2:36:13 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: BGHater

I wish Sarah would joke “they haven’t seen my lobster bill yet”...


26 posted on 12/04/2008 2:36:47 PM PST by eureka! (Must not let the election continue to depress me so much.)
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To: BGHater

And in other “NEWS” today, India and Pakistan are on the verge of a nuclear war.... when we come back, a local boy makes good on a promise to ride a donkey at the state fair....


27 posted on 12/04/2008 2:37:56 PM PST by 11th Commandment (2008 was an historical election - the first time a socialist was elected President.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
During the same period the Honorable Ted Kennedy (RAT-MA) spent $30K

No he spent it on his brain tumor, has anyone seen old ted are is he about to get very cold???

28 posted on 12/04/2008 2:38:31 PM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: muawiyah

“Problem with AP is they buy too much dope and not enough toilet paper.”

OK. You can Freep mail me where I’m supposed to pick up the keyboard you owe me. You caught me mid-sip!


29 posted on 12/04/2008 2:39:28 PM PST by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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To: BGHater
This is such a waste web space. It doesn't matter to her supporters how much the GOP spent on her clothes...Sarah only wore them at their direction.

Her fans don't care, and the left is not going to support her anyway.

They CAN'T get to her on the substance of policies and government, so they go after the clothes, hair-do's and whether or not Tina Fey looks more like Sarah Palin, than Sarah Palin.

These are silly little games being played by media members who are still stuck in high school cliques. Let them rant, steam and seeth...it doesn't matter.

One huge difference be liberals and coservatives is, liberals are lemmings - that's why both of those things start with an 'L'...they match. Lemmings believe and do whatever the MSM and party bosses say; Conservatives make up their own, individual minds.

That's why it means so much more for conservatives to go "gah gah" over someone like Sarah...because we've listened to what she's had to say...not because her skin is a different color and the "party" told us to support her.

I think that is one of the reasons we lose sometimes, maybe too many independent thinkers. Too splintered.

So let AP, Politico, Oprah, and all the rest have a hissie over Sarah...the stove doesn't burn unless it's red hot.
30 posted on 12/04/2008 2:40:29 PM PST by FrankR (“Turtle up”, economically, for the duration of 0bamanation.)
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To: BGHater

obama took in nearly a billion dollars in contributions. what’s $180k, even if that were true.


31 posted on 12/04/2008 2:40:31 PM PST by sappy
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To: 11th Commandment; All
"And in other “NEWS” today, India and Pakistan are on the verge of a nuclear war.... "


32 posted on 12/04/2008 2:40:40 PM PST by musicman
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To: ronnie raygun
WOW 30,000 compared to the fleecing congress and the senate are giving us in the trillions.

Thing is, just about everyone knows what 30k is, most people have no clue what a trillion is or can even relate to the number.

33 posted on 12/04/2008 2:44:07 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (When homo's can procreate - then they can get married)
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To: BGHater

Order a latex catsuit with the Presidential seal for 2012.


34 posted on 12/04/2008 2:44:08 PM PST by Jim Noble (I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel)
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To: weegee

I don’t know if that logo is yours or not, but consider it STOLEN!!!


35 posted on 12/04/2008 2:44:11 PM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: weegee

I’m stealing that graphic!! How great is that?


36 posted on 12/04/2008 2:45:10 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (Tagline on vacation during the grand experiment.)
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To: BGHater

What I’d like to know is why is the press obsessed with this story? Sure, they want to take Palin out, that much is obvious. But why do they think this story will do it? I know I don’t care. But they must figure someone does. Maybe they figure it will diminish her appeal with women who will see her as an uptown wannabe and get all huffy about it? That must be their theory because men don’t care about how much a woman’s dress cost.


37 posted on 12/04/2008 2:45:18 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
How much did Obama pay for the jet flight to suspend his campaign and visit his ailing grannie?

... and go twist the governor of Hawaii's arm to seal whatever birth records there may be of O in Hawaii.

38 posted on 12/04/2008 2:45:33 PM PST by webschooner
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To: BGHater

Well good, I hope she keeps the clothes; she will make a damned good looking President Elect in 2012.


39 posted on 12/04/2008 2:45:50 PM PST by boxer21
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To: BGHater

30K more for charity, then. They ought to get on the stick getting that organized and figure out the right timing to get the maximum PR value out of it.


40 posted on 12/04/2008 2:46:15 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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