From Politico:
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
What’s this then? While the American economy is cratering, the "Hockey Mom Who’s Just Like You, Doncha Know" is at Neiman Marcus, dropping $75K of RNC donors’ hard-earned money on red leather numbers, fuck-me pumps, and underwear for the First Dude.
I guess that’s why she’s never photographed holding Trig — who wants spit-up on her $1,000 St. John suit?
And she still hasn’t paid back Alaska for those little junkets she took with the girls.
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Shit, that ain’t nuttin compared to Cindy Lou’s $300,000 dazzler at the convention
Oh, and WT, that’s a “sqiggly”, not a “*”
;~P
OMG…the graphic is hilarious!!
And don’t forget maternity for Bristol…
She will be back at Fred Meyer shopping for this years Juneau Boots and thermals soon, Insh’allah.
For their generosity, RNC donors get this: http://www.americablog.com/200…..ia-is.html
Sleep well GOPers.
poor palin – she won’t be able to out-do cindy at the inaguration
watertiger! thanks for sharing the bilking of the r’s by r’s. makes me smile a big ole smile thinking of the reaction of r donors.
The things one can do with moose hide these days!
Palin really has no boundaries between private and public, home and business, does she?
Whoever the dressers are…they are having a ball dressing McCain’s women like space cadets…they all have pointy bouffant space hair and spikey heels, and they dress Cindy like Heidi and Sarah like Yeoman…
Oy.
Holy cow that is hilarious!! Love the graphic!
I hope they saved the receipts.
It’s a repub trait. Rob everyone you can.
A Two Bit Whore in a Fifteen Hundred Dollar outfit will not give you change for a dollar.
Don’t worry, the MSM won’t breathe a word of this. See, Matt Drudge rules their world, and he’s utterly ignoring the story so far.
this is a commie, pinko, joke…right?
I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the McCain bedroom…ewwww….when Cindy says, “John, are you attracted to Sarah”…and he says, “shut up, c**t”…
Does the 25th Amendment apply to candidates?
I sooooo want his finger to be on the button.
Bullseye.
That probably wouldn’t be his first night in the guest house…
and when Cindy catches on and says, “John, why are they dressing me like Heidi and Sarah like a man magnet”…and John says, “shut up tr*ll*p, I don’t need your stinkin’ money”…
Thanks watertiger.
digg
…of the sixth house, er, seventh…
oh, nemmind
i wonder if joe the not plumber’s regretting his donation to the r’s – and how many years working would joe have to work to pay for sarah’s clothing bills for this one month?
No Victoria’s Secret budget?
and then when they lose…John says, “If you’d looked hotter, I would have won”….
Hopefully, neither one will be there…
*gag*
I love the picture ! McC is expressing my feeling exactly.
Are you al sure these bills went to the GOP? I thought the public was paying for the McSFB campaign!
What Sarah really needs to be buying is approval points. She seems to be a little short on them just now…
I’m surprised only 65% of Americans think the candiates full medical records should be made public.
http://www.cnn.com/
The rest think that they are Repubs.
you’ve got a MUCH stronger stomach than i do.
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin
I wonder how much they spent on that cow-coat Sarah was wearing in the picture where little Piper was photoshopped flipping the bird?
*that* was a real winner….
Right out of that three hundred and eighty thousand dollars that mysteriously disappeared from Liebermans war chest.
You Go Girl, it’s on me.
I don’t need a receipt either.
This is legal? I may have to run for office and get outfitted! Purses okay? Jewelry? What about automobiles?
We’ve been discussing the AP story on the travel junkets up here in Alaska most of the day, but the clothing bills are new, eh?
She’s the gift that keeps on giving….
She’ll get McCain down to 36% by November 4th, if we can keep two new stories coming out every day.
I joked that the Tampa Bay Devil Rays dropped ”Devil” from their name so that they wouldn’t be cursed by Satan as well as not offending their fan base.
This stuff just writes itself. A minister told CNN that dropping the Devil nickname accounts for their post-season success.
Well, Reverend, ain’t working out so bad for those Blue Demon Dukesters in basketball, baseball and lacrosse, eh?
Perhaps, Satan only curses football teams when it comes to college sports.
Short-ride Joe’s gonna find himself in no-man’s-land pretty soon, I reckon.
the photo is fabulous.
Why not? She has. Me pregnant? I thought that happened seven months ago.
i voted today. second day of early voting here in austin. waaay more people than usual. not much of a wait – they had many many voting machines.
HEy PW, any movements in the polls related to Bachmann? HAs Tinklenberg started spending his bucks?
It’s looking a little doubtful that either one will even be at the inauguration. Keep your fingers crossed.
twolf you’ve outdone yourself this time. That graphic is just, just…
So ET, when are you going to announce for the governor’s race in Alaska?
Dugg George Clymers Digg! George you out there or are ya just lurking??
This may be true. I’ve noticed a pattern with McC of blaming others for all his (for lack of a better word) sins. At first I thought it was just political bs, but now I’m wondering if he isn’t like all those sociopaths that blame the victim for their own violent behavior. It was Obama’s fault that he was forced to go negative since O wouldn’t go to his town-hall setups. It was also O’s fault that he mentioned Ayers in the last debate. Now, it’s Lewis’s fault if he is forced to talk about Rev Wright.
Hey I just learned if you click on the graphic it makes it larger — lol
Can we get the dates of those purchases? When was she in New York? Wasn’t this all when McBush was there to bail out the Financial houses.
“We’ve decided to suspend the campaign so that Sarah can go shopping!”
That is what abusers do.
and then they apologize…and it goes on and on and on…I’m sorry, it was the worst day of my life, I’ll never do it again…
Until next time.
Whoa man, that is some fine photoshoppin! To think the McInsane Gene Simmons impersonation photo came from a Presidential debate no less! What a goober.
Hmmm …
Can we say something like 400 of John Edwards $400 hair cuts?
Can we talk about about 80 years of clothing for the average household?
I hope that those who gave to the RNC feel that their money has been well spent.
And, one would hope, excellent shoes.
In short: it’s a Republican thing.
Was that a red leather top she was wearing today?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…../91/637578
When hell freezes over!
Off to a rehearsal of Liszt’s Totentanz – in the snow, so I guess we’re halfway there, eh?
Methinks the McCain campaign created a monster with Ms. Palin.
And anyone catch that Sarah is going up to Alaska to campaign on Friday…we should start spreading the rumor she’s going to help out Ted Stevens and Don Edwards! Then the Repugs will have to respond…
“NO…she’s up there testifying in her ethics trial!”
Palin’s little 5 day junket for a 5-hour conference was with Bristol, while she was on Alaska’s dime.
The $75K she dropped in one day was in Minneapolis.
Who paid for the plane tickets, lunch, dinner and the Hotel?
Did she also claim a Per Diem because she was traveling?
Oh don’t worry those type think it is money WELL Spent!! They don’t know the true value of money as they never really had to make any or suffered from the lack of it. “It is so passe to talk about money”
Just take it all away from and then listen to the tune they would sing.
Back to 90% taxes on anything over 1 million a year!
Gee we might be able to get health care for all that money that would flow into the Treasury!!
With a little luck, they’ll destroy it, too.
they thought of it as an investment. one that has gone by way of wall street
Hmmmm…. Monster?
We need to keep pushing this or she’ll be back, for 2012.
DrBong – LOLOLOL!
Totentanz, nice metaphor for the dwindling Palin campaign.
A thought. McCain has been under Cindy’s money thumb 4evar…until now…Now, he is under the RNC’s money thumb…with a new cute chick at his side, to boot. If he wins….he’s out from under her “money” control….if he loses…Hmmmm…back to the whims of Mrs. Moneybags.
Interesting, if you consider his history.
Methinks you could run with that
Leave Sarah Palin alone! She’s just helping Joe Habadasher make a living.
-G
Love the picture!
See, here’s what ticks me off about this situation. Politics is akin to show business! Always has been, always will be. When people beat up on John Edwards for his expensive haircuts, I’m like “Uh, do you really expect the guy to show up for a rally with as much as a single hair out of place? Do you really say, Hillary Clinton, is going to show up for a debate in jeans and a t-shirt?”
Seriously, people need to get real about politicians and clothing/grooming expenses.
All that having been said, are Palin’s clothing expenses grossly excessive? Wel-l-l-l…considering she IS being sold to the
rubesvoters, as a sex symbol as much as she is a politician…I noticed that during the convention, Bristol was sporting a very large diamond engagement ring — it could be seen as she was sitting in the audience. Wonder who paid for that?
how to eliminate coal upstairs
I wonder who their stylists are? They both look like Stepford wives.
“No need to remove the tags, just turn them on the inside, girls.” — Liquid Sky, just before the fashion show.
” I had to show them my bunny boots and my North Face clothing.”
BTW There may be a lost Palin interview somewhere on Charlie Rose back in 2007. Any care to look?
There will still be a need for coal, for Santa to deliver to Republicans in their Christmas stockings.
Why, it’s right here.
Ni and Gov. Napolitano in 2007.
Hah! Did anyone catch the interchange between Ted Stevens and the prosecutor today about his gifts.
She got him saying that a large leather chair he got wasn’t really a “gift” because he was just “storing” it. Well he did use it, but it was there after all. It wasn’t a gift, because he said it wasn’t. He had “lots of things in my house that belong to other people.”
Sarah’s wardrobe is our socialist gift to her. The RNC campaign (unlike Obama’s) is funded by the taxpayer. We can now call her the “welfare queen”.
Nice one, twolf.
;>)
Lipstick on a pig.
Mika Brezinski’s head is exploding.
Revlon has created a new shade in Palin’s honor-”Pitbull Pink”.
Maybe they hired the stylists fron the AMC series “Mad Men”. Its set in the early “60’s.This would echo McCain’s “salad” days.
Well you may take the girl out of WalMart, but its hard to take the WalMart out of the girl.