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You get what (someone) pays forBy lex, on October 24th, 2008
October 24th, 2008 | Tags: Small Stuff | Category: Small Stuff
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I’m sure you gentlemen haven’t noticed the picture of sweet Sarah in the red suit, but that’s a darn good figure for a woman in her forties who has five children, the last of them only six months ago. She has the kind of figure that the great beauties of classic Hollywood had, before anorexia took over, and witty guys started saying things like “Sleeping with a model is like sleeping with a bicycle.”
You go, girl.
Marianne
I bet Hillary about peed herself when she saw Sarah motor onto the state at the convention. Yes, not only is she dynamite as a person, someone who doesn’t take no for an answer, who doesn’t take crap at all, she is just dynamite.
WOOT!
I recently had to buy some clothes in a hurry for a trip to China. I paid $55 bucks for a tee shirt from Macys for gods sake…
Macys in the heart of NYC…
I was blown away by the prices…
Don’t forget the 9% sales tax on that purchase.
Nothing says power and prestige like 4 inch do-me-spikes.
But seriously, I’ve always said a woman with a low enough scoop in her neckline could make any guy do ANYTHING. She may be on to something here. . .
Ditto this Bob, albeit Bad.
b2
Marianne, you are quite correct that she’s one rockin’ momma.
But for me, that’s just the icing on the cake. She has a pretty darn good record and can give a heck of a speech. Her heart is in the right place.
And as for entering politics, unlike some who decide somewhere in middle school, it looks like she took a look at her community and decided she could do better. I like that.
But yeah, she’s smokin’
To answer the question in the linked article about ‘who got more bang for the buck’…..I’m voting for Todd Palin. Hands down.
And just how do you spend $6,000.00 for a Hillary pantsuit? That is completely ridiculous (unless they charged by the yard for the material used). Then again, maybe they up the claimed price so they can write off the inflated number to make up for the fact that the Princess of Cheap won’t give them back.
Dang! Hillary’s pantsuits cost more than twice as much as my first new car after my wife and I got married–that ’66 Pontiac LeMans with a 326 V-8 rolled out the door at $2,600; and Hillary’s pant suits cost $6,350! Heck the 66 Pontiac looked better.
Here’s the thing I don’t understand…
The money that was spent on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe (correct me if I’m wrong here) came from the campaign fund, NOT from taxpayer monies.
So why are people wrapped around the axle about this?
HF6: they are “wrapped around the axle” because…
they can be.
The media have eviscerated this woman on all fronts. Why not attack who paid for her clothing, ignoring that all of it will be auctioned off for charity.
Palin also told Hannity a couple of nights ago that in fact, 1/3 of the $150K purchased was returned and 1/3 hasn’t even been taken out the bags & boxes yet; those unused items will also be returned.
But no one talks about that. No.
But no one talks about that. No.
And I would hope (albeit naively) that no one bases their vote on it. The media voice is only as effective as we allow it to be. More and more (70% in that recent who-is-the-press-in-the-tank-for survey?) are realizing that they are best ignored when it comes to “reporting” on presidential candidates,
Ah yes … the She got expensive new duds story. Let’s dump on Sarah about that, since she’s actually pretty squeaky clean about most everything else they’ve tried to pin on her. I’m with Kris on this. The media are in true poo-flinging mode.
As far as expenditures go, the RNCC paid for those clothes [which are to be auctioned off after the election]. Let me point out gently, that this young governor *is* Governor of Alaska, one of the coldest states in the Union, and also one of the wildest. The clothes people wear Up There are radically different from those worn down here in the lower forty-eight. Parkas and snow-boots are vitally necessary up there and would be extremely uncomfortable down here while campaigning and communicating with those of us from warmer climes and even from the inexecrable Effete East.
The in-the-tank media should untie the twist from its knickers and think shame on themselves. But they won’t.
Marianne
Even before Alec Baldwin made his remarks about SNL, a workmate had seen her here in Clearwater and came back saying “Wow! She’s even hotter in person!”
Once more, the women who sit back and let the “poo” (thanks, Marianne) fly are just asking for the day when they are subjected to the same, and this precedent will be held up when they cry “UNFAIR!”
The thing is that she’s a soccer mom from Wasilla! Seriously, Carhartts and Sorels don’t play well on the national (and international) stage.
*I* love them but I doubt the rest of the world would.
All this talk about clothes and Troopergate, and, yet, we can’t seem to get a birth certificate out of somebody?
I’m thinking Trace Adkins ought to write a song about Sarah…oh wait! He did! ‘One Hot Mama’!
Didn’t someone at the last presidential debate whine about how their opponent’s campaign was characterized by abject negativity and mud slinging? And then scarcely make it out the door they own self ‘fore doing a whack job on a plumber and the opponent’s runnin’ mate? Any body that can pull that off is a true master of distraction…or is that deception?