Shortly after Sarah Palin was named McCain's Vice President, everyone went crazy over her glasses. People all rushed to the eye doctor so they could get her glass. CNN even had a story of how people were waiting months to get her glasses.
Now this week the media has been going crazy of the RNC spending $150,000 on her clothes. It wasn't just the liberal blogs that were going crazy over the story, even mainstream media was all over the story, from the nightly news to even Fox News. The story was even covered by international news outlets. According to financial records from the RNC they almost $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue, $75,000 at Neiman Marcus, and almost $5,000 for hair and makeup in September alone. Its not just the Republicans that spend crazy amounts of money to make their candidates look good. Remember John Edward's $400 haircut that he paid with his own campaign money?? In an interview with Fox News after the story broke Palin said, she is a very frugal shopper and while in Alaska she and her family shops at a consignment store in Anchorage. "If people knew how Todd and I and our kids shop so frugally. My favorite shop is a consignment shop in Anchorage, Alaska, called Out of the Closet. And my shoe store is called Shoe Fly in Juneau, Alaska...It's not, you know, Fifth Avenue-type of shopping."
Instead of covering the real issues like the failing economy they are focusing on what Sarah Palin is wearing. Unfortunately Presidential candidates are products, they are marketed and managed by numerous people. They have to look a certain and talk a certain way. Now if Palin were a man, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be news on how much his suit would cost.
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