Why is it newsworthy? For one, it’s being reported on, at least by DFH’s. Another reason, I think, is that she piles on new gaffs, new hypocrisies, fresh examples of her ignorance every day, but manages to make them all glisten when near each other, as if they were the magic stones in the second Indiana Jones pic. A better politician would sidestep and lose them in the press of daily news. Thank goodness for small favors.

In Ms. Palin, an adult’s power is married to the frustrations and lack of inhibition of an adolescent. Based on her short time as a working politician, I’d say she also has an elephant’s memory and gets more satisfaction from payback than from watching men straddle snowmobiles. She will far surpass McCan’t as a loose cannon in tomorrow’s GOP.

Some of her outfits are OK, other are not so good. Not as bad as Cindy McCain’s, but then she is only first lady.

Some of Clinton’s outfits where quite bad – but I recall some anger at discussing such things. Now the main theme of the post is the amount of money which is obscene.

But hell the Pope wears like $700 shoes.

PPS – TDS piece on Wasilla was hands down the funniest hard news I seen in a few weeks. Especially Daily Show correspondant walking down the middle of a 4 or 6 lane Main Street getting beeped at by everyone. Or the church going guy with the nude tat’s of the women he cheated on his ex-wife with all over his arm. Or the new Mayor of Wasilla who could not even answer what she did beyond a 1 hour staff meeting on Tuesdays and signing checks on Thurdays (no services to oversee even like police or fire).

Oh, and Kerry, Chucky S, and that other bozo shut your mouth and get off the coattails – you are already in the Senate. I was fine with what Barney said.

Well, isn’t the McCain campaign funded by the taxpayer? That means all of us paid for Palin’s shopping spree.

I live just outside of Pittsburgh in a small county of about 179,000 and I can guarantee you, an ad like that would just KILL. A house costing $150,000 is one hell of a house around here. $250,000 homes are mansions of a large scale. The average wage is just over $30,000, median rental cost is $340/mo. and average home price is about $100,000. The home price seems inflated to me because my home would list at about $80,000, each of my sisters’ at about $70-90,000. And we have quite nice average homes in good neighborhoods. In large swaths here, you can get 2-3 bedroom home for less than $50,000.