Okay, I have no problem with a political campaign, or political resources from the RNC in this case, being used to help a candidate look good for campaign appearances. The whole “dress for success” idea leaves me pretty cold, but I understand it. In this case, the “success” and the “dress” involve money spent by the Republican National Committee to put Gov. Sarah Palin and her family into some pretty fancy dress clothing for her campaign appearances. They apparently ran up a shopping bill of about $150,000 in designer clothing for the gang.
Now I really only have ONE problem with all that — whatever happened to the famous Two Joes Gov. Palin and Sen. John McCain were appealing (Or should I say “appealin’”? You betcha.) to.
Quick, Joe Six-Pack and Joe the Plumber, raise your good old small-town-real-American-values hand if you’ve bought your wife a $x,xxx dress. No?
Oh, for shame, that I, one of those evil Liberal Democrats, should bring this up. That’s exactly what the McCain Campaign thought, according to the article I linked to above. I quote from that article:
The McCain campaign released a statement late Tuesday night saying, “With all the important issues facing the country right now, it’s remarkable that we’re spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses. It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign.”
Oh, my. May God forgive me that I should even MENTION this issue, when I should instead be crying out against Sen. Barack Obama’s evil associations with terrorists. You know the associations I’m talking about, don’t you? The ones he and several Republican leaders had when they served on an education board with that evil guy in Chicago — a board funded by a foundation started by a conservative Republican friend of Ronald Reagan? Yeah, that one.