Palin Defends RNC Clothing, Discusses Accessories (VIDEO)

Sarah Palin addresses the $150,000 in clothing purchased for her by the Republican National Committee at a rally. She compares the outfits to the lighting at an event, saying it doesn't belong to her and that she will go back to shopping at her "favorite consignment store" once the race is over. She went on to highlight some of her inexpensive accessories. Watch:

John McCain also defended the purchases on "Meet The Press" Sunday morning. He said that a third of the clothing has been returned, and that the rest will be donated to charity.

However, Palin's remarks were apparently not approved by the campaign. The incident is another example of tensions in the ticket that were reported over the weekend, as the vice presidential candidate is starting to go "rogue."

Some aides to Sen. John McCain say they weren't happy that running mate Sarah Palin went off script Sunday and turned attention back to the controversy over her wardrobe.

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A senior McCain adviser told CNN that those comments "were not the remarks we sent to her plane." Palin did not discuss the wardrobe story at her rally in Kissimmee, Florida, later in the day.

A Palin aide, however, told CNN that the governor clearly felt like she had to say something to defend herself, because "that's really not who she is."

Over the weekend, sources told CNN that long-brewing tensions between Palin and key aides to McCain were on the rise.

Several McCain advisers suggested that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue."

Comments

[Obama-Biden-08]

Palin isn't very wise to talk about how she's giving the clothes back and how she'll go back to wearing her "regular" clothes after the election. It's especially unwise to compare the clothing to the lights, and "sets." She--and her fans--should be smart enough to realize that she's openly admitting that the campaign is creating a false persona for her by dressing her in costumes. She is admitting that she can't even stand up for herself enough to dress herself, or to fight against the ridiculous waste. Why can't she wear consignment shop/charity shop clothing on the campaign trail? They offer nice enough clothing. Wouldn't that be a much more positive message? It's understandable that she needs to look neat and professional, but she had decent enough clothing to appear in public as a governor. She is not walking the red carpet, but that's what it seems like. She is pathetic, and the people defending this are just ridiculous.

[lunchlady]

Who's paying for her attorneys? She also threatened CNN with a lawsuit if they ran the story about the AIP so they scrubbed it.

[KathyinCT]

People,people, people -- it's ALL ABOUT SARAH, to Sarah. She doesn't care what they tell her, she has a fatal compulsion to tell HER SIDE OF THE STORY no matter what it does to the campaign.

Man, with her narcicissim and McCain's repressed anger issues, maybe they could get a group discount from a good psychotherapist!

[420]

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[keepacoolhead]

The way she said "RNC" it sounded like she actually harbored some real resentment. Like a woman who was used as a trophy and then discarded.

[k1k2legend]

Sarah Palin, you took the clothes with every intention of wearing and keeping them. America watched as you flaunted your new "duds" and then listened as you denounced the team members when the ratings dropped...again! Ironically, this crisis evolved because you assumed that you are worth all of the glitz and glitter. Bad mistake! You have yet to earn the right to even speak independently in public. The McCain team was correct from the beginning...you are incapable of learning. Not quickly, not within days, not in months nor even years because you do not have the background which promotes higher learning. Your intelligence quotient precludes your proficiency in anything other than conditioned responses, hence, you must be scripted. You cannot function within an impromptu environment because you have no frame of reference for anything other than pretending to be what you are not, an American politician.
Your most recent assumption that you will be a viable candidate in the next presidential election is sheer insanity. Caution! You must accept that the women politicians who have spent years earning the respect of the American public because they are educated, intelligent and patriotic will welcome you into life in the fast lane. Please do not spend time or money on a self-improvement course, however, as this will be a futile endeavor. Alaska's electorate will have long since voted you and your family into obscurity. Just go back home and shop in your nearest consignment store.

[tbone99]

Put two mavericks together and where do you go? Nowhere ,they're two busy declaring the other one is
a conformist.

[Yermammy]

One bull in a china shop is plenty.

[Shelly1970]

Notice how her hair in this speech isn't so "perfect" as it usually has been since she started campaigning? It's all smoke and mirrors folks. This is someone who found politics as a way to fuel an extreme case of narcissist. These aren't "off-scripted" remarks. They are trying to both downplay the fact that she's a puppet and a mannequin at the same time.

[Tropiholic]

sister maverick will talk about whatever she wants whenever she wants to!

[gopSTEALSyourTAXmoney]

Yeah she'll talk about what ever she wants,
just like what I hear when I pass a drugged-out
homeless woman on the street.
They ramble on but no one is listening.
(that be p-a-l-i-n)

[foneric]

choas.

[PDinCA]

nucular

[PoliticalOutlaw]

Being female, normally I would consider concentration on the style and expense of the clothes a woman candidate was wearing would be offensive to me. That is to say if those clothes were of the style and cost she normally wore.

However, Sarah Palin has attempted to cover herself in the mantle of American Motherhood - a Soccer Mom tending to a Special Needs Baby with a pregnant unmarried daughter. If that is the image she honestly wanted to project, she would have turned thumbs down on any shopping spree. That she has manipulated and allowed herself to be manipulated into becoming a parody of what American mothers are really all about offends me the most. Especially when the claims of sexism are coming from an over-bleached bimbo- Pamela Anderson wanna-be.

[forthepeople1]

The clothes and her statement ......defending her over the top purchases, "Not who she is"......... is EXACTLY, WHO SHE IS!!! As governor of Alaska, she wasn't in office a month, and had her office remodeled to the tune of $50,000 without city council approval. She took zero debt to a debt now standing at $25 MILLION DOLLARS. She had a Hockey Rink built at the cost of $15 Million, did not follow proper procedures to secure the land the Hockey Rink was built on, and subsequently created a long legal battle to the tune of $2 Million dollars and still going as it is now resolved. THIS WOMAN IS WRONG, WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS!!! She and Todd's taxes reveal a lavish 1.2 Million dollars. Do not be fooled. Besides, she is unqualified, ill-educated, and talks in circles because she has to FAKE IT!!!
Get it????? With our nation in all the trouble it now faces, how can you possibly put her anywhere near the OVAL OFFICE and TAX DOLLARS?????/

[forthepeople1]

You are right, she has no business being near public office, especially the WHITE HOUSE!
Superman, as fast as he is, could not pack her back to Alaska FAST ENOUGH!!!!!
She Remains Unqualified and ILL-EDUCATED, INCOMPETENT AND DANGEROUSLY OVER AMBITIOUS. Dumb as Dirt. Please send her back to Alaska. (6) MORE DAYS!!!!

[Squigibo]

Can we pay Palin to just "go away?" Seriously, can't we democrats pull our resources together, say $25.00 each, and just pay her directly to leave?

[wrylass]

My $25 goes to Obama. My expectation is that she will naturally fade away as a byproduct of events one week from today.

[CP18]

My second favorite part of Meet the Press on Sunday was when John McCain tried to defend the $150,000 Palin shopping spree by saying they are salt of the earth, middle class people. Yet the Palins are MILLIONAIRES. My favorite part, of course, was when he got uppity about the five secretaries of state who endorse him, but he couldn't remember their names.
I can hear Vin Scully now: "Swing and a miss, and McCain goes down on strikes."