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AMERICAblog: Palin says the $150k in clothes were never hers, McCain campaign disowns her comments

  • JohnInTexas · 1 year ago
    All Johnny has to do is take her plane away from her and tell her she can't talk to anyone anymore. She better be careful she doesn't get dumped at the next layover and get left stranded at some airport.
  • anarchy · 1 year ago
    lying liars who tell lies!
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    I love it! The more Palin talks about this stupid clothes distraction, the more they lose. If they were smart they would have moved on by now. I just love it. This will be in the news for another 6 days. Then it's good bye Palin's.

    It is truly delicious when republicans eat their own. :-)
  • SCLiberal · 1 year ago
    I believe there is some thing that connects us all (Gregg Braden calls it the Divine Matrix). People everywhere are so ready for a change that it is inevitable. I expect to see a continued disintegration of the forces for greed, hypocrisy, and fear. It is SO MUCH fun to watch! I also hope people keep in mind that once we have an Obama administration we can't rely on one man or a handful of people to solve our problems. That is not their role. That is our role. Obama will be the one to run interference for us.
    I'm looking forward to some amazing years.
  • camille · 1 year ago
    Of all the bullshit, reprehensible things McCain has done, unleashing this Frankenstein monster on us has been the worst and this above all will be his disgraceful legacy. My fondest hope will be that after a humiliating defeat at the polls, this vapid, dangerous banshee will drag her knuckles back up to Alaska, never to be heard from again, but I fear she is going to plague us for a long time to come.
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    Joe the plumber wants to run for office?? What a moron.

    http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Joe_Plumber_for_C...
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Why not? Palin is living proof that anyone can run for office with minimal experience. From PTA to mayor to governor.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    OH I forgot the biggest one to VP. I think Joe the plumber has found a new idol.
  • SCLiberal · 1 year ago
    That's moran to you. ;)
  • luvboxer · 1 year ago
    They need to take Palin and that bimbo who was with her in Florida and ship them both back to Alaska. I will be sending an e-mail to the view about Elizabeth, plus I am sure more will be sending off her e-mails about her. She does not belong on the View.
  • Roxie_Beaver · 1 year ago
    Best comment on Politico about this, from mr. poopypants:

    "Going Rogue? I thought this was an article about Sarah not wearing any panties under her $10000 skirt. Darn."
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Just like Tina Fey said in the skit about Palin: "One part High School Bitchy"

    LOL
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Palin says she is now wearing all her own clothes and it shows. Yesterday a pink jacket and today some black top, neither of which seems to fit well or have the pizazz of the little red jacket.
  • JohnInTexas · 1 year ago
    She's wearing her own clothes cuz McDaddy took her new duds back LOL She should watch out who's flying her plane, an unfortunate accident could be around the corner if she doesn't put a cork in her piehole and straighten up.
  • Stevious · 1 year ago
    Two words: Clown Car.
  • mikeyDe · 1 year ago
    What did she wear? And when did she wear it?

    Couturegate has drowned out her real issues, such as her sleazy deal with Trans-Canada.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    OT

    Watching Palin and the crowd starts chanting " NO McCain use your brain"---I thought what the hell? Then I listened a little closer and it was actually" GO McCain use your brain" Damn, I liked the first version better
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    What the hell is this woman saying. I missed the context but she actual said "Jor momma"
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    $150,000 is nothing to these people. How stupid of them not to just go out and get her all those clothes and hide the expense somewhere. Who is advising them, Ashley Todd?
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    Will the clothes be donated to her favorite consignment shop and why did she buy stuff for the baby?
    She should have used that money for a nanny for the baby because he needs to bond with somebody.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Yes, I keep harping on the $300 stroller and the $92 baby outfit., like average Americans will spend $92 on a baby outfilt that will be too small in a month or two. If they spent that much on the baby what did they spend on the other children or was decking out the baby like dressing a prop?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    That poor baby IS a prop. For G-d's sake, I wish they would leave their special needs child home and not drag him to all those events. Its just not fair to continuously expose him to all that noise and treat him like he is a campaig prop.
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    I just can't imagine putting an infant especially a special needs infant through all of that noise, the lights and all of the different people. And they pass that baby to anybody to hold, I am surprised I didn't see McCain holding the baby.
  • UncleGlenny · 1 year ago
    They don't trust McCain enough to hold the baby. He might say something and use air quotes..
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    The baby is a like a prop, and if she is so frugal like she keeps saying she is, why would she spend $92 on a outfit for an infant. Are they going to take the stroller from the baby and donate it, and why didn't she already have a stroller?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Sarah just called Barack Obama, "Barack the wealth spreader"

    My G-d, when will they stop? She is such an a-hole!
  • MNUSA · 1 year ago
    What's so amusing is that when Palin or McCain criticize Obama for wanting to spread the wealth around, the audience cheers. They talk about eliminating the capital gains tax and the audience cheers. I guess they're made up of CEOs and senior executives, otherwise they'd have no reason to cheer. Sometimes, when watching them in the lines shouting unspeakable things to Obama supporters, I wonder if they even know what capital gains are. Yet they cheer as though cutting taxes on capital gains is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    They don't process what they hear. It doesn't matter to them. They listen to the cadence of the speech and whenever they pause they cheer on queue. They each have their own little hateful reason for supporting them and it doesn't matter what is said to them or how illogical. They cheer no matter what. Its disgusting. There are TWO different Americas. One America has the ability to critically think and analyze and they are called Democrats. The other America survives on their preconceived hateful notions of what others stand for. They have NO LOGIC and accept everything fed to them on FAITH as long as the proper buttons are pushed.

    McSame or Palin could shout, "All the Republicans here are bastard sex offenders!" and the crowd would widly cheer! They don't even process what is being said.
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    .....or something crazy like....oh.....say......"'Drill baby drill!". Which is borne not for a lust for oil, but a pent up sexual frustration that is endemic with right wingers. I think all of the men had hardons while they were chanting this to Palin at the convention of hate last month. It was a revolting display.
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    Yes, I think the same thing. The audience does not have a clue. No one has capital gains anyway lately, so there is not much to tax these days. His constituency is clueless. All of the Rockefellar republicans are voting for Obama. That my friends will be the opposite 'bradly affect'. I know quite a bit of repbublicans who are voting Obama this time around. The only people McCain has left are the extermist nut bag fringe. The people who would most benefit from Obamas economic plan.
  • Patriot · 1 year ago
    So, whose clothes are they, then?
  • stephenl · 1 year ago
    Joe Biden's? (DUCK!)
  • ronfromnh · 1 year ago
    election night drinks: obama hq = champagne; mcstain hq = koolaid. but don't quit yet. remember 2004
  • truebluecoondog · 1 year ago
    When McCain chose Palin, he created a monstah! Poor Sarah is going to be so bored after next Tuesday when she has to go back to selling snow machines in Wasilla. Cindarella.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    "Use your brain... Vote McCain?" Sarah giggled and said, "That's good!"

    PUKE.

    I hope when this is over I don't have to hear that annoying bitchy voice for a REAL LONG time.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Sarah is SUCH a SHAMELESS LIAR.
  • bluestockton · 1 year ago
    She's a girl after McCain's own heart. Not following the orders of a superior officer is how he crashed all those planes and got shot down.
  • cyninbend · 1 year ago
    How many times has he called her the "c" word by now?
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Has someone come up with a special Obama cocktail drink for the evening of Nov 4th?

    Maybe Rachel Maddow has come up with a drink?
  • Older_Wiser · 1 year ago
    Everyone needs to take a deep breath and realize that the Aryan Goddess and self-described "First Dude" aren't your average Joe Sixpack, either. Only those who drink the KoolAid believe that. Actually, this couple has assets worth over $1 million, and it would be smart of some reporter to find out exactly how this was obtained (by hook and crook?). It's already been alleged that their personal house was practically donated to them for political favors.

    Here's an excellent article you probably won't find in the states, with a couple of former Palin friends who have "regrets":

    ^ Gargill, David. “Mystery, Alaska”, The National (2008-10-03).
  • jt307 · 1 year ago
    Is this now less about saving face and more about her assessing ownership so she doesn't get hit with the tax bill. The IRS is sitting here taking notes, and if they aren't "props", as she wants everyone to believe, but actually hers, then she is paying a very nice gift tax on them.
  • MNUSA · 1 year ago
    "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
  • vwcat · 1 year ago
    Palin has been known to use those who can give her a boost and when they do, she discards them like trash.
    Now that McCain is no longer useful to her ambitions, knowing they lost, she is out for her own self for 2012. If they were to somehow succeed and get elected, can you imagine the trainwreck of the duo for the next 4 years. mccain would have to hire a taster.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    I was for my $150,000 wardrobe before I was against it.
  • malibuyorkie · 1 year ago
    I remember when John McCain was a POW and when he returned home. It is a shame to see him at this age of his life and see his service to the USA being questioned. Why, of all the people he could have picked for a running mate, he chose Sara Palin. She would be our President if something happened to him? Does he really think she would be a good President for all Americans.? Certain things trigger my emotions in a way that I question why I acted/responded to them so emotionally. McCain needs to go talk to someone he trusts and will tell him the truth about his choice/choices. I will try and remember him as someone I respected for his service to the USA and how he handled his POW capture in Vietnam and his strength during that time. GOD bless the USA and Senator McCain!!!
  • hrh · 1 year ago
    With napkin tucked under chin, a knife in one hand and fork in the other, we are salivating at the possibilities of what sumptious gaffes and debacles Palin-McBush will by serving us in the coming week. Yummy, yummy!
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Let them wear polyester.
  • EmGD · 1 year ago
    They're not hers because she technically doesn't own them I guess. She just wears them for Johnny and the RNC as she plays out their "dress up" fantasies as their own personal "Electoral Suicide Barbie".

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
  • IAmATVJunkie · 1 year ago
    "Gussy her up?"

    John, do you live in the old West now? I thought you still lived in DC.
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    Hey, I use the phrase Gussy up too. My parents use that phrase....It's fun to bring back old coloquialisms (sp) every once in a while.... :-)
  • therepguy · 1 year ago
    This just like the republican christian fascist... lets all fight over the $150,000,00 rag bill and not focus on the nation's failing economy!

    DO THEY THINK THE PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID!

    YES!
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    gee whiz...the GOPers are a joke!
  • CamilleClaudel · 1 year ago
    The woman is RNC Barbie (and if Mattel steals my idea...)
  • ivyfree · 1 year ago
    She is such an opportunist. Wear the clothes when they are given her, deny they're hers when she realizes it's not helping her. I am SO hoping the Alaska people impeach her and throw her out of office in disgrace.
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    What I love is the McNutty camp told her to not mention the clothesgate thing again....and she continues to go off script and discuss it. How very 'Mavericky' of her. She is driving the McCain camp insane. They are on pins and needles with her......I love it.

    There is nothing like the crackling sound of the McCain camp foundation just before it implodes.
  • kado · 1 year ago
    I'm far from a Palin supporter. I can, however, understand the need for a proper wardrobe for a campaign for VP of the United States.
    If Pain is saying the clothing isn't her's its because McCain has commented that after the election, the clothes will be donated to charity.

    The problem is all of this, as with most everything in the McCain/Palin campaign is the timing. She should have been groomed, including hair, clothing, and POLITICAL EDUCATION prior to McCain announcing her as a running mate. Could no one see, from the outset, that this woman needed a lot of help?

    That aside, the fact that "charity" was not discussed till complaints flooded in from outside is just another indication of the write-them-as-we-go rules of McCain's campaign. On the subject of honesty, Bristol Palin is a "hands off" topic for the campaigners but not for the public. Question: If she is pregnant and planning to marry, why is she, months along, still single? Is this another "convenient truth"? In other words, when Palin is not elected, will the marriage also be off because its no longer needed? And, if so, what does that say about Palin's true self as a mother? I think there is just so much untruth here....all over the place. The piddling $150K for clothes is NOTHING. Just let it GO.
  • CamilleClaudel · 1 year ago
    I think it's something. The clothes are very chic.
  • wakeupUSA · 1 year ago
    It's painful to admit that these people are Americans - and that they still have a scary amount of support in the country.

    Sarah Palin - butthead extraordinaire.

    Go to: www.buttheadpolice.com

    Vote for her, and others like her to get an ass stamped on her head. LOL. Pass it on. :)
  • Crazy8 · 1 year ago
    Follow the money. If Sarah admits the clothes were a gift and thet she owns them then she has to pay income tax on their value. She wants nothing to do with them or their tax burden.
  • JohnRJ08 · 1 year ago
    The clothes that Palin purchased are custom-tailored designer pieces. These were not 'off-the-rack' purchases, so the idea that they would end up on some homeless person is utterly preposterous. While it's not all that unusual for a political campaign to provide some clothing to its candidates, there was no reason on Earth for Palin to agree to the extravagant $150,000 expenditure. This is yet another example of how completely clueless Palin is about national politics. Personally, I wouldn't care if she got a million dollars from the RNC to buy new clothes. The problem lies in how incongruous that is with what she has been selling to voters for the last two months. Hypocrites are rarely aware of their own hypocrisy. This is called hubris.
  • CamilleClaudel · 1 year ago
    amen
  • jupitor · 1 year ago
    She did not need these cloths.. If Mechelle Obama can wear 30 to 150 dollar cloths, so can she. Mr. Obama often wears shoes with woren soles. It was Mccain/wife who thought she wasn't dressed well enough to run with their group. This is just another example of how Mccain is out of touch with the american peoplewho don't live on their financial level. I believe Todd will make sure his wife says and does everything possible to further her own career. I do believe they have grand ideas for her own career after this.
  • mbe · 1 year ago
    So why didn't she say "Thanks, but no thanks." She could have shopped at a department store like Dillards or Macy's. Could have found nice suits for hell of a lot less. I imagine Joe SixPack and Josephine Waittress can't even afford to shop at those shops. She is the govenor of Alaska. Surely she already had an appropriate wardrobe. And why were clothes bought for her children and her spouse. THEY aren't running for VP. I'd love to hear how some of the people who contributed to the campaign feel about how their contributions were spent. If I had contributed, I'd be demanding my money back! "I'm just a plain, down to earth hockey Mom gosh darn, you betcha wink, wink.... She's a joke and SHE is the reason McCain is losing the race.
  • dkaur · 1 year ago
    Palin says "Those clothes, they are not my property."
    I would like to ask her "Which other candidate spent a comparable amount to dress for the campaign? Did you not have some decent clothes to dress yourself for the campaign? Will you use our money to dress yourself when you become the VP or God forbid the President of USA? Is that a reasonable amount to spend on clothes, especially when it's donor's money? "
    If you had excess money in the campaign account, you could have donated some to orphaned kids due to war.

    Mrs. Palin also spent a huge amount of money for her kids travel. Don't they have school to attend? Why should the people donate for your kids travel? There are so many consultants in this country who travel for their job. Do they get any allowance for their kids to travel with them all the time?
  • BeanerECMO · 1 year ago
    Barack Obama has spent well over that, as well as Michelle's stay at the Waldorf and room service with lobster appetizers, lobster tails and champagne. How about those columns for his inauguration, oops, acceptance speech. And, if Palin had been wearing clothes from Target, Kohls, or WalMart, she would have been blasted for just demonstrating her backwoods profile. Who else wears clothes that don't belong to them; about every news anchor and anchorette (look at the credits - clothes provided by...) Come on, there's something more important here; Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson driving Fannie and Freddie into the dirt; Chris Dodd, Barney Frank et al abetting the driving; spreading the wealth from people who work to people who don't have much motivation to do more than get a GS-2 government job (or equivalent). Notice that BHO says he wants to spread Joe's wealth, not his own. I hope people do stop and think before they vote. As much as people bash the high flying CEOs and their 'golden parachutes' (including Frank Raines and Jim Johnson who aren't being bashed at all even though they are the real culprits in the collapse of Freddie and Fannie), has anyone thought what raising the taxes on the corporations and small businesses will do - they raise the prices of the goods being sold because the purchasers ultimately pay those taxes. And, if those products are not purchased, what happens to the stocks and employment of those companies - they plummet. And, if the stocks and employment plummet, what happens to the dividends in the 401K / 403B accounts - there won't be any. And, now George Miller (D-CA) has introduced doing away with the tax breaks of 401K / 403B accounts, because the government is losing money - think about that for awhile. And, now, John Kerry wants a New Deal II - the first New Deal wasn't doing anything but putting the US further in debt and started the nanny state. The only thing that brought the US out of the depression was WWII. Unfortunately, it took a war to solve that issue, but we still have the nanny state, and it will only get worse. And, now, Joe B wants to go after the retirements of those dastardly CEO's. If he goes after those, yours and mine aren't far behind (because Joe B says that's patriotic). Remember, congress' retirement fund is guaranteed by laws passed by congress. However, I'm voting Democrat because: 1) I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn; 2) freedom of speech is fine as long as everybody agrees with me; 3) when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing; 4) I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years; 5) I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies as long as we keep all death row inmates alive; 6) I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits (they should just give any excess to the government to spread the wealth); 7) I believe we need to rewrite the Constitution every few months to suit the liberal kooks who have never been able to get their agendas passed by congress... or past the voters; 8) I believe that when the terrorists don't have to hide from us over there, and then come over here, I don't want to have any guns in the house to fight them or ACORN off; 9) I believe oil company profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 18% isn't; and, 10) I don't want to be called a racist.
  • mralex · 1 year ago
    I stopped reading your post when started off with the part about Michelle Obama ordering lobster and champagne at the Waldorf Astoria.

    She was not in New York the night of the Al Smith Dinner. The New York Post had to print a retraction of that story.

    Maybe when you fact check the rest of your post, it will be about 1/3 as long.
  • JohnRJ08 · 1 year ago
    I find this post very sad. It's typical of the current campaign, which presents distortions and discredited rumors as fact. Like just about anything that has been coming out of McCain's and Palin's mouth lately, none of it is the complete truth. It's just divisive, polarizing, mud-slinging politics as usual. And that's probably the biggest reason that McCain is going to lose this election. It's a self-inflicted wound.
  • daecon · 1 year ago
    Sigh...Michelle's lobster feast at the Waldorf has been thoroughly debunked. Even the NY Post admits the story is fake.
  • tigers51 · 1 year ago
    Beaner ECMO:
    Where do I begin?Uh ...$148 bucks for the dress Michelle wore on the view(not quite Saks or Neiman Marcus) and by the way it was Th RNC who decided to release the info....just like it was the RNC who made the horrible decision to purchase them in the first place.
    Second, you are focused on the fact that people are complaining about the clothes and you fail to see the hypocrisy of a candidate and campaign who are barnstorming the country saying small town values blah blah blah....yet I do not know many small towns where you can shop at Saks.
    Third, it is not inappropriate to question if the purchase was legal in the first place and consider Mccains plea on the floor of the Senate asking the same questions about how campaign funds are spent and blasting othe polititions who spent money on personal items...again hypocrisy.
    Last, I find it ironic that now the wingnuts are screaming about how we should focus on issues when the whole game plan of the Mccain campaign has been the opposite.
    So focus on issues if some story about Palin is not to your liking? Now you wanna focus on issues?Please spare me the sanctimony....nobody is buying it!
    Obama resoled his shoes......Palin was the recipient of dare I say...welfare....or would you prefer a "speading of the wealth" from the RNC.
    Waldorf story....not true...debunked like all the other smears......and whats wrong with Target? I live in a city of 450,000 and we have a Target......last i checked L.A. had a target.......the only people who call her hat wouldbe people who focus on dumb things like that in the first place......ahem....the RNC.
    Put your hair out and check some facts.
    Fannie and Freddie only make up 1/4 of all sub prime loans anyway.
    In surprised you did not claim ACORN bought the clothes
    New deal BS:
    According to government stats since the New Deal, Americans have done better under Democratic Presidents and in fact it was the New Deal that led to the building of the strongest middle class this country has ever known.
    Under New deal policies America was the largest lender of money and the largest producer of finished goods......since the Reagan revolution, based on economic theories of Milton Friedman, and pushed by neoCONS, we are now the biggest debtor nation and we are far from leading the world in any economic stat......except maybe the bad ones.....so enough of the New deal caused this mess BS.
    I counted at least 5 talking points all of which......debunked either here or elsewhere but facts don't matter to Repubs much these days....unless they favor you of course.