washingtonpost.com - 10/22/2008
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Thursday, October 23, 2008; Page C03
msnbc.msn.com - 10/22/2008
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John McCain's presidential campaign said thousands of dollars
worth of clothing purchased by the Republican Party for
running mate Sarah Palin will go to a "charitable purpose" after the campaign.
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GOP spends $150,000 for Palin's wardrobe
corner.nationalreview.com - 10/28/2008
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One of the things I've seen at Republican
rallies is that people just don't believe Barack Obama
when he says he'll raise taxes only on those who make more than $250,000 a year. It's not that these people make that much money or even think they'll ...
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Obama's Moving Tax Threshold: $250,000? $200,000? ...
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Expensive Wardrobe Goes Against McCain-Palin Story Line
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... presidential nominee Sarah Palin. How do you sell someone as a no-frills hockey mom who sold the state plane, fired the official cook and turned down travel per diems for her family 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? Continue reading Posted at 4:50 PM ET on ...
The Clothes
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] 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 ...
Sarah Palin - The Sexist Double Standard
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Is all of this banter about Sarah Palin’s appearance, wardrobe and make-up a sexist double standard?
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 ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 11/5/2008 — I like this picture of Sarah Palin voting. Heavy on the Caribou, light on the Barbie. She didn't need to be dunked in RNC bling. And the more the campaign went on and the more she wiggled free of her minders, the better she sounded. If you've got ...
$150,000,000
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 10/19/2008 — B. Obama raised $150,000,000 in September; he's raised more than $605,000,000 -- nearly twice what the Democratic nominee in 2004 raised. The average donation was $86 bucks. 3.1 million people contributed. Watch for the McCain campaign to try to ...
What could you do with $150,000?
democraticunderground.com 10/23/2008 — ...which has managed to suck all refunds and stimulus checks away from me for the past 5 years... I could erase my bad debt from my ex husband...I could trade in my car and get a hybrid or something cleaner... and maybe have some money left over to ...
GOP Donors Respond to Palin's $150,000 Makeover | Newsweek Periscope
newsweek.com 10/26/2008 — The disclosure that the Republican National Committee spent more than $150,000 on clothing and accessories for vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family set off recriminations among GOP officials—and, more important, party donors. It ...
Sarah Palin’s $150,000 Wardrobe
oliverwillis.com 10/22/2008 — McCain supporters won’t like seeing this at the same time they’re pulling out of swing states. Couldn’t they have used that money in Michigan? Sheesh!
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to ...
Sarah Palin's $150,000 camp wardrobe
swamppolitics.com 10/22/2008 — by Mark Silva
Turning out the vote can be expensive. Turning out a candidate can be just as costly.
It's always worth digging into the spending side of the financial disclosures that candidates and parties file with the Federal Election ...
$150,000 vs. $250,000
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 10/28/2008 — From NBC's Mark Murray and NBC/NJ's Mike MemoliThe McCain campaign is jumping all over Biden's interview yesterday with a Scranton TV affiliate, in which Biden said that people making under $150,000 per year would get a tax cut under Obama's tax plan. ...
RNC Has Spent Over $150,000 On Palin's Clothes: Report
huffingtonpost.com 10/22/2008 — 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.
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Palin Couture: To Put $150,000 In Perspective
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 10/22/2008 — That's one good week of television time in Colorado. And folks wonder why even Republicans are angry about the provenance of Palin's wardrobe. BTW: Saks's tagline for women's clothing right now is "Guilt free and gorgeous." And, of course, before ...
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First Read 10/22/2008
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- While Palin continues to hammer away at Biden , the Delaware senator is for the most part focusing on McCain , hitting him again today for a “wait-and-see” attitude on a second stimulus ...
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