A vote for Sarah Palin is a vote for the next season of "Project Runway".

[apocalypsos]

So Sarah Palin's been having the RNC pay for her expensive wardrobe. It's hard to avoid criticizing Palin as a female candidate rather than just as a candidate when there's lines in articles like this that read, In Palin’s defense, being a woman in the public eye has its own kind of pressures. I'm sorry, but that's bullshit, regardless of their intent to give them to charity or whatever. The article points out that Obama's suits cost in the $1,500 dollar range. I imagine John McCain's suits may cost more, but that wouldn't bother me personally because ... well, he can afford it. What bothers me is when during a time of economic crisis a candidate is charging either party for their extravagant wardrobe expenses and anybody would want to handwave it as, "Oh, well, she IS a woman." What? No. You're a governor, for crying out loud. You can afford to buy your own peep-toe pumps.

Oh, and she also, charged the state for her kids traveling with her, even if they weren't invited to the event in question. I know this won't come as a surprise, but Idon't exactly look forward to the prospect of paying for the Palin girls to fly to Hawaii or wherever to pretend to pull a raffle ticket when I can't even afford to go to Wincon during a weekend it's in a city five hours away from my house.

But the good news is that "God will do the right thing on election day." Whether or not He will still have done the right thing if Obama's the one who gets elected, Palin didn't say. What Palin has said is that Obama's camp is presumptuous for thinking they have the women's vote locked up, because they're the one with a woman on the ticket, clearly not understanding the exact reason why her unfavorability ratings among women have risen. According to the article, she also says, "You've got to ask yourself, why was Senator Hillary Clinton not even vetted by the Obama campaign? Why did it take 24 years, an entire generation from the time Geraldine Ferraro made her pioneering bid, until the next time that a woman was asked to join a national ticket?" While I certainly can't answer the second question, I can say that the fact that she appears to think Hillary Clinton is the only woman in the Democratic party and that Obama might not have a problem getting along with her after the oh-so-fun primary season doesn't make me want to vote for Palin's va-jay-jay the way she seems to want me to. No, thanks, I'd rather vote to secure the rights of ALL women, not just the one on the Republican ticket.

Urgh. I'm starting to believe that Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones's solution to the global economic crisis is exactly what we need right now as a country.

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Comments

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

$15,000 is one thing. $150,000? That's another thing. But hey, let them spend their money on her clothes.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

If Sarah Palin gave such a damn about my vote as a woman, she wouldn't spend the equivalent of more than six years of my salary on glasses frames and shoes.

[newredshoes]

Someone on dKos has pointed out that Sarah Palin's wardrobe, as its own entity, is eligible for a tax cut under Obama's plan.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I don't know. At the rate it's going, it might not be by the time November 4th rolls around.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Natalie & Rashida are on to something; it's not for nothing cuteoverload.com is one of the first things I look at every morning, after fivethirdeight.com and factcheck.org.

The Republicans are trying to regain some points, this morning the news outlets had something about Palin donating "part of" her new wardrobe to charity.

[liliaeth]

Obama also has about five suits, that he uses over and over, patches up, and then replaces when they can't be patched up. And he pays them himself. Michele on the other hand wears dresses in the 150 to 300 range which she also pays from her own money.
(Unlike say... Todd Palin, who's wearing armani suits also paid for by the RNC)

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

"I'm a super professional woman but also pretty and unthreatening" kind of woman? Yeah, I just bet that image is expensive. One more way to make women in power unacceptable - as First Lady, Senator Clinton was constantly criticised for her wardrobe and haircuts, and powerful women like Quentin Bryce (Governor General) and Julia Gillard (Deputy Prime Minister) get the same stupid flak. No wonder the RNC quickly polished Palin to their standards - more fool Palin to accept it.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Did you see the A Softer World (http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=361")?