my campaign wardrobe

With so much ink being used about Governor Palin's pricey campaign wardrobe purchases and make-up artist fees, I thought I'd offer some badly-needed advice to her and the RNC.


My total wardrobe outlay for this campaign has been $12.95. I shopped via the internet. If the governor had spoken to me first I could have saved the campaign $159,987.05. Think of the stir she would have made all tricked out in that terrific T-shirt. And she wouldn't have to donate it to the Goodwill when she goes back to Alaska.

As for the $20,000 for her traveling make-up artist, I could have offered a much more economical way to do this. She could have gone to the cosmetics counter in any department store in the various cities in which she has appeared. She buys a lipstick (or two; one for her, one for the pit bull), for example, and gets a FREE make-up job. Think about it; Clinique one day, Estee Lauder the next, Chanel the next, Lancomb, Yves, and so on. It's easy. She would have spent maybe $15 for each tube, probably never used it, and donated them to a women's shelter. If her appearance is advertised, hundreds of women flock to the store, buy goodies, spend money. This is an all-around winner; she gets made up for free, women buy stuff, the store makes money, women in crisis get a treat, and the economy soars. She (and the RNC) could have avoided one of the campaign's more embarrassing PR disasters. But then, it wouldn't be any fun, would it?


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