Forget About the 150K
Posted by DB on October 26, 2008
For all those fixated on the Republican National Committee’s $150,000 expenditure on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe and accessories, STOP! You’re taking your eye off the ball.
This is a small part of a much larger, and increasingly clear picture.
First, they wouldn’t allow her to answer any questions posed to her until she had undergone a two-month “re-education” program [to borrow an expression from China, et. al.] Meanwhile, they determined that this state governor would also not be adequately presentable to the public without a wardrobe upgrade.
What a bunch of elitists! Ms. Palin ran a successful campaign against overwhelming odds and won the Governor’s seat in what is still part of the United States in spite of the best efforts of her husband and other friends she pals around with. But these ‘Real America’ snobs deemed it necessary to lock her up for two months with Henry Higgins (among other experts) and give her a wardrobe and cosmetic makeover as well before she could be presented to American Society. All this so that they can represent her and themselves as being more like Joe the Plumber and less like Aubrey the Banker or [gasp,] George the President.
What’s really important here is how this move exemplifies the obvious, and most important factor in this election to be dismissed out-of-hand by both the RNC and the McCain Campaign – Governor Palin’s lack of qualifications to hold the office for which they have nominated her. It also shows the lack of sound judgment involved with her nomination to begin with.
Citing GOP hypocrisy is no longer an intellectual exercise. They’ve dumbed-it-down to the point that their base’s no-longer-well-educated children can see it. For now, let’s even ignore the fact that shopping at Sak’s Fifth Avenue even goes so far as to support the economy of their real enemy, ‘The Other America’.
The RNC and McCain campaign, contrary to their words, have clearly demonstrated their own lack of confidence in their candidate. They needed two months to give Gov. Palin enough preparation to satisfy them that she could even be a suitable campaigner as a VP nominee, yet they expect us to believe she is ready to assume the office of President of the United States on a moment’s notice.
This is even bigger folly than William Seward spending $7.2 million of taxpayer money on that remote ‘Share the [Oil] Wealth’ socialist patch of ice this would-be President hails from.
