To put it in perspective:

If Edwards had gotten one of his legendary haircuts every single week, it would still take him 7.2 years to spend what Palin has spent.

Palin's fashion budget for several weeks was more than four times the median salary of an American plumber ($37,514).

Palin received more valuable clothes in one month than the average American household spends on clothes in 80 years.

Her clothes were the cost of a year's worth of health care for 15 or so people.

Just a good ol hockey mom indeed

At least she's not one of those dang ol' elitists like Obama!

McCain's September payments of $8,672.55 to "American Idol" make-up artist Tifanie White, who has also worked on the reality dance show "So You Think You Can Dance," are a drop in the bucket on the campaign's beautification front compared to the GOP vice presidential nominee.

Palin's high-paid traveling make-up artist is Amy Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work as head of makeup on "So You Think You Can Dance." Strozzi was paid $13,200 by the McCain-Palin campaign last month alone, according to the campaign's latest financial disclosure report filed this week.

That's $4,527.45 more than McCain's make-up artist made last month. And as we mentioned yesterday in our exclusive on McCain's make-up artist, the 72-year-old Arizona senator, who has prominent scars from battling cancer, requires more work than does the more naturally telegenic 44-year-old Palin.

She's been in the spotlight for something like 60 days. That's like, 2.5 thousand per day.

I promise you that she could buy two brand new outfits every day that no one could possibly criticize for less than half that.

She had to dress the family up, too, and she's got a damn big family seeing as how she doesn't believe in Planned Parenthood.

Really, 2.5 thousand a day if it means 1.25 thousand per outfit (if you are getting two a day and not counting haircuts, makeup, etc.). That's pretty normal if an outfit requires pants/skirt, blouse/tip, jacket, shoes, some accessories like earrings or a necklace. Hell, most of my crappy jeans cost more than two hundred dollars. I could easily see pants for national tv being 3-400, a blouse being 2-300 and a button-down jacket being 3-400. Then, earrings around 200 and shoes around 200. Now its getting cold and you have to have nice looking winter jackets, too. You people really think that your debut on the national stage is the time to start counting pennies? Media impressions are everything, and I still do not find 150k to be all too shocking.

Palin has been scrutinized so intensely every time a snapshot of her hits the papers. Did you expect her to show up in jeans and a tank-top she purchased at Caldors? The RNC offered to cover this in its attempt to spice up the campaign. Palin was always picked because she of her ability to produce herself as a celebrity in the public's eyes. She did what it took. And you know, if someone offered to pick up my clothes shopping tabs, damn straight I would take it.

The Fox News "coverage" of this story: "Let's find out why Sarah Palin looks so good..."

Oh by the way, it's because the media is sexist:

A woman, CANNOT, doesn't matter how politically correct or unsexist you may try to be, in this day and age, pull off recycling the same clothes. for every 1 suit obama or mccain invest in, hilary or palin would normally have to have 4 or 5 dresses to compensate, along with everything matching. i would also figure that clothing in general, for a woman, would cost more (if my inventory of clothes and that of my wife is anything to go by).

Does your wife spend $150K on clothes in just six weeks? Does anyone outside of Hollywood or Park Avenue? And again, this would be at the time they're trying to portray Obama as an out-of-touch celebrity elitist.

It would be interesting to find out what Hillary spent on pant suits the first six weeks of her primary, or Michelle Obama on the first six weeks after Barack's winning the nomination.

Irrelevant!

your country is burning and your concerned about the fashion of a Milf...


Just tells you how America got into this mess.