Did You Hear About Sarah Palin's $150,000 Clothing Expenditures?

Wow! You can't call anyone an "elitist" when you shop at Neiman Marcus & Saks. Those are some super posh stores for a "regular" small-town girl. I guess Macy's attire just isn't good enough for plain folks like Sarah Palin. Now, this is not really suprising. I'm sure all of the candidates spend money to look good because they're in the public eye. But it just emphasizes the hypocrisy of the McCain/Palin claim that they're fighting for the regular "joe". What's normal about spending $150,000 on clothes & makeup in just 3 months? Are they just like you & me as they claim? Hell no! I don't even make that in a year! According to Huffington Post, this is what she spent:
"Mainly, however, Democrats (in this scenario) are not prone to forgiveness. After all, it was during this same campaign cycle that Republicans belittled the $400 haircut that former Sen. John Edwards had paid for with his own campaign money (the funds were later reimbursed). And yet, the comparison to that once-dominant news story is hardly close: if Edwards had gotten one of his legendary haircuts every singe week, it would still take him 7.2 years to spend what Palin has spent. Palin has received the equivalent of $2,500 in clothes per day from places such as Saks Fifth Avenue (where RNC expenditures totaled nearly $50,000) and Neiman Marcus (where the governor had a $75,000 spree)." (END OF EXCERPT) Follow this link for the full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/palin-clothes-spending-ha_n_136740.html

The McCain campaign says that they will donate the clothes to charity after the election. I guess politicians really are like celebrities after all.