We all know what I’m talking about here. It’s really easy to pick on the McCain campaign and Palin for spending a fortune creating her image, but the really interesting part of this for me has not been the money. Rather, I’m intrigued by the cost of creating the hockey mom image. After all, if it weren’t for freedom of press, none of us would know anything about the cost. All we would see is the hockey mom image, and we’d still be arguing over its virtue. Instead, I’m fascinated by the fact that it’s cost close to a million dollars to turn Sarah Palin into a convincing hockey mom.
And people whined about $200 haircuts…
The actual figure was <US$151,000.00. A lot, but lets look at a few items.
She was given approximately 4 hours notice that she was selected for the VP slot. She hadf to be on the plane and prepared for a long, grueling campaign. The clothes were a necessary part of the deal.
The clothes are goiing to be donated after the election. She will not be keeping them.
All politicians benefit from ‘FREEBIES’ as to clothing during a campaign. The designer/store benefits from the advertisement as a result. Case in point - the ‘designer’ of Hillarys! pantsuits, which retail for US$6,500 gives them to her free for the advertisement.
And really, if this cheap shit childish stuff is all you’ve got to diss on Gov Palin…Just admit it…You ain’t got much.
Hell, even I admit that I’ve been a patron of Burberrys where Baraq Hussein Obama gets his suits.
[quote=“TainanCowboy”]
And really, if this cheap shit childish stuff is all you’ve got to diss on Gov Palin…Just admit it…You ain’t got much. [/quote]
I hardly think that this is all that folks could diss her on!!!
[quote=“Indiana”][quote=“TainanCowboy”]And really, if this cheap shit childish stuff is all you’ve got to diss on Gov Palin…Just admit it…You ain’t got much. [/quote]:lol: I hardly think that this is all that folks could diss her on!!! [/quote]And yet you offer nothing but ‘smiley’ faces.
This is my post and I hope the moderators would not let it turn into a 'dis the Palin thread. My original point was not intended as a derogatory comment about her. You’ll have to explain how you read that into the post since I made it explicit that’s not what I meant. My point was that she is being billed as just another down to Earth kind a gal who could be the mom next to you at the hockey game. The fact that she had to be ‘made’ into one at a huge cost is very interesting in what says about what a ‘hockey mom’ really is supposed to look like.
But please do have another look at the original questions I posed. While I know this is forumosa.com, I had an intention in posting this thread and it is stated in black and white.
Hey TC, since we are on the subject - got any update on Obama’s BC?
Personally, I like the nasty scag image. That costs about the same but in heroin.
I don’t think that the money that went into changing her image was to make her look like more of a hockey mom. Quite the opposite I presume…it was meant to make her look more vice-presidential and respectful. She still goes on about being a hockey mom / hunter / friend of Joe Six Pack, but the makeover was to make her look the part, and all, you know, mavericky.
[quote=“Indiana”][quote=“TainanCowboy”]
And really, if this cheap shit childish stuff is all you’ve got to diss on Gov Palin…Just admit it…You ain’t got much. [/quote]
I hardly think that this is all that folks could diss her on!!! [/quote]
Indeed. I see it more as an expose of Republican hypocrisy. Republicans regularly criticize Democrats for things like expensive haircuts, clothing and air travel, but they engage in the same behaviors. (They do the same hypocritical finger-pointing with fundraising and sex.)
Scott -
Thank you for your additional input.
I think that a good response tyo your post is contained in my comment.
The amount, was totally inline with what it costs to outfit a candidate running on a ticket for the VP of the USA. She, as mentioned, came into this with less than 6 hours notice. I doubt, can you specify otherwise?, that she had much time to put together a 24/7 wardrobe that would cast her in the correct image. The campaign put it together for her.
As to the cost…so what? It goes to charity and its a lot better than having rude, stupid comments about her looking like a hick from the backwoods of Alaska.
Well, at least I think so. Heck, I prefer seeing her in hunting clothes with a rifle in her hands.
I do not fear a strong woman.
If that’s true, it’s yet another example of the astonishing ineptitude of the McCane campaign.
Are you for real, TC?? It’s as though you’re fledgling in the journalistic minor leagues for FOX. How can you suggest that the [color=#0000FF]only[/color] thing people have against Palin is her wardrobe after these 86 pages, in which you consistently posted? Personally, I thank God for McCain’s desperate choice of Palin. It’s turned November 4th from an Obama win to a rout. That and Saturday Night Live has been gold.
Sorry, Scott. Perhaps the mods could reopen the Palin thread in case TC needs another 86 pages to be convinced that her wardrobe isn’t the only issue people have against Palin. :loco:
news.aol.com/elections/article/p … ree/224699
The Inconvenient Truth:
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gN2U … gD940L4780
She’s come out and said:
-1/3 of the clothes were returned
-1/3 of the clothes are as yet unused as they don’t match her style
-1/3 of the clothes have been used
Therefore she has done all this campaining with her family on 50,000 $ of clothes, which is amazing actually.
She has been vehement that her family is frugal and careful with their money.
It’s just another ill-informed sexist beat-up by the Obama fascist supporters who seem incapable of looking objectively at anything, and who have problems with details that inconvenience them.
[quote=“Kea”]http://news.aol.com/elections/article/palin-disputes-150000-shopping-spree/224699
The Inconvenient Truth:
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gN2U … gD940L4780
She’s come out and said:
-1/3 of the clothes were returned
-1/3 of the clothes are as yet unused as they don’t match her style
-1/3 of the clothes have been used
Therefore she has done all this campaining with her family on 50,000 $ of clothes, which is amazing actually.
She has been vehement that her family is frugal and careful with their money.
It’s just another ill-informed sexist beat-up by the Obama fascist supporters who seem incapable of looking objectively at anything, and who have problems with details that inconvenience them.[/quote]
Both the links you gave simply point out that Sarah Palin now says she never got $150,00 worth of clothes. Neither of them deal with the fact that the RNC bought $150,000 worth of clothes for her and her family, as documented by their own filings.
I’m completely willing to believe- and have indeed posted evidence on- that somebody in the RNC was involved in financial shenanagans and was stealing from the Committee.
Maybe they should find out what happened to the money, if it didn’t go to clothes for Sarah?
Waiting with bated breath your explanation for this one:
[quote] Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch?
Not Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser; not Nicolle Wallace, his senior communications staffer. It was Amy Strozzi, Gov. Sarah Palin’s traveling makeup artist, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night.
Ms. Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show “So You Think You Can Dance?”, was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records. The campaign categorized Ms. Strozzi’s payment as “Personnel Svc/Equipment.”
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The campaign’s payment on Oct. 10 to Ms. Strozzi made her the single highest-paid individual in the campaign for that two week period. (There were more than two-dozen companies that got larger payments than Ms. Strozzi). She easily beat out Mr. Scheunemann, who received $12,500 in the first half of October, and Ms. Wallace, who got $12,000. Ms. Lew [Sarah’s hair-stylist]was the fourth highest paid person in the campaign during that span.[/quote]
While all of this makes sense, there’s something missing. If Ivana Trump or even Babara Bush tried to claim ‘hockey mom’ status, no one would accept it. Sure, they don’t slaughter whole herds of caribou or partner up with a snow mobile racing champion, but even if they did, they still couldn’t do the ‘hockey mom’ thing. There’s something about them that makes such a claim completely incompatible. So why is that wearing clothing and make-up far beyond the budget of real hockey moms is not a problem? How is that no one said she looks likes like an extremely wealthy well put together woman, more like the daughter of John McCain out for a weekend at a casino, than anything I’ve ever seen at a sports field?
The Obama campaign spent 5.3 million dollars for that phony Greek temple in Denver’s Invesco Field. That’s a lot of money…uhh…that could be uhh…spread around. 
Sarah Palin spends $150K to look like a million dollars. Barack Obama spends five million dollars to look like an arrogant ass.
The Obama campaign spent 5.3 million dollars for that phony Greek temple in Denver’s Invesco Field. That’s a lot of money…uhh…that could be uhh…spread around. Sarah Palin spends $150K to look like a million dollars. Barack Obama spends five million dollars to look like an arrogant ass.[/quote]
Obama spent 5.3 million dollars for speaking at Invesco field, that includes everything, not just greek columns. The entire DNC convention cost 53 million or about a third of what the RNC spent on theirs.
Can I make a pseudo-intellectual post that illustrates my own curiousity as well? You know, I am very interested about how much it really costs to look like a sofa. 
can you people stop carping on about the cost of clothes in an election campaign? haven’t you got anything better and more significant to argue about?
I would expect a campaign to be managed for clothing as tightly as anything else. it’s an image thing. it’s a legitimate expense, no matter which side of the fence you’re on. and it’s part of what people donate money for. next you’ll be complaining about the cost of food for the candidates, and the fact that they stay in hotels instead of dossing down on the sofa of some local supporter.
now, if there was some funny stuff going on with the accounting, whereby some stooge pocketed $100,000 by diverting it from Palin’s clothing expenses, then that’s worthy of investigation, but not the fact that the GOP spent a lot of money on her and her family’s wardrobe. and it really is not a lot of money in the long run.
and chewy, nice sofa picture. pity it doesn’t match for pattern or texture, but that’s shortsightedness for you.