The cost of Palin
David Frum has a comparison which brings home to you just how much the RNC spent on a new wardrobe for Sarah Palin:
While the New York Times reports that for the first two weeks in October, Plain’s travelling make-up artist was the best paid person on the McCain campaign.“The median monthly mortgage payment in the US in 2007 was about $1500. In other words, Sarah Palin spent very nearly as much on clothing in a single month as the typical American family will spend on housing over the next ten years.”
Now, I appreciate that it is more expensive to be a female candidate in these respects than a male one. But at a time when the McCain campaign is being outspent by Obama this really doesn’t seem like the best use of the campaign’s cash.
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October 24th, 2008 7:09pmThe true cost of Palin is in the polling.
McCain on life support.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/todays-polls-1023-mccain-on-life.html
So the plane is really full of unworn clothes is it
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-sarah-palin-1023-2,0,136871.story
Yeah right- The lies never ever stop.
Craig Strachan
October 24th, 2008 9:57pmThe cost of Palin?
One presidential election.
Jon
October 24th, 2008 10:45pmPalin = "Plain" (sic)
Ha!
Freudian slip???
Familiar Clown
October 25th, 2008 5:09pmThe Republicans spent $150,000 on clothes for 60 days campaigning, but Obama spent $5m on the temple for his acceptance speech. And the RNC will auction off the clothes for charity after the election.
Reg
October 25th, 2008 8:18pmWestern civilization is on the brink (apparently) of being usurped and James Forsyth worries about the cost of Sarah Palin's wardrobe.
But what if Sarah becomes the new pin-up of the 'Hillary Babes'? And of all those influenced by these women?
What price a huge slab of the Democratic electorate?
The cost of Palin to the Republicans? Nothing. To Obama? Everything.