10.26.08
Ms Extreme Makeover
Not to give you guys too many links, just a little catching up for those of you who haven’t been following the saga too closely…
But after the receipts were submitted by the Republican National Committee for the $151,000 in clothing from better stores, $13,000 and then $22,000 for her makeup artist—or was it more than that, I forget? Then Palin denied outright having spent that much money, making her either the worst liar in the world or somebody who shopped like she thought she wasn’t paying for it.
Of course, she did pay for it in the end, or at least she will, when tax time comes around. The IRS will consider this consumption, rather than an expense. She had clothes, even if they weren’t as tasteful as the ones bought for her by the chief robocall manager. And the clothes they bought her can be worn again, unlike a McDonald’s uniform.
It will bump her into a higher tax bracket.
They weren’t a loan, unlike an evening gown that a celebrity may wear once to the Academy Awards. When she gets done with them, they’ll be nothing but used clothing in the eyes of the IRS. Somebody said to me that she can auction them or sell them off to rich Republicans. Something tells me that there aren’t too many Republicans thinking kindly of her right now. But even if there are, if they give her money for clothes that aren’t worth anything, that’s declarable income, too. It’s definitely a no-win situation, which is why she should have taken advice from the likes of Michelle Obama, who’s quite the thrifty dresser, or even the folks at Lifehacker, where they’re showing us how to dress like a Veep for a fraction of what she spent.
Now there are those who say that it’s just a double standard, because we expect women in the public eye to dress much more expensively than men in the same job, and there’s certainly some of that. There was a blog entry on HuffPo that came outright and said she should be able to spend whatever she wanted, and she should also be able to take her kids with her wherever she travels at the expense of her employer, because she’s a woman and… Uh, didn’t go over very well.
Please, she spent twice as much as my house is worth on clothes. Her makeup artist is the most expensive McCain campaign worker they’ve got. HELLO? People are living on pasta and potatoes. They are skipping new shoes so they can buy fuel.
And now the McCain campaign doesn’t know what to do with her. The Veep hopefuls that McCain passed up when he picked her can’t think of anything good to say about her. She’s decided to go all rogue on them, won’t listen to anybody’s advice, and spouting all kinds of bizarre extreme rhetoric. She has decided it’s all the campaign’s fault, none of it hers for being incoherent and ignorant of the simplest facts. And now she’s announced that Obama’s tax plan, by allowing expiration of Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy, is the beginning of Obama’s nightmare communist plot.
Ship that bitch back to Alaska. Somebody please sedate her, give her a Xanax or two. Or anesthesia, even better. Anything to shut her up.
