Sarah Palin Spent $40,000 On Luxury Goods For Todd

Washington Post's Reliable Sources column reports on more Palin clothing expenditures, this time for Todd:

On top of the $150,000 first outlined in Federal Election Commission filings, Palin spent "tens of thousands of dollars" on additional clothing, makeup and jewelry for herself and her family, including $40,000 in luxury goods for her husband, Todd, our colleague Michael Shear reports. The campaign was charged for silk boxer shorts, spray tanners and 13 suitcases to carry all the designer clothes, according to two GOP insiders.

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Comments

[billreef]

They can hardly be blamed for thinking they could do what they wanted. I mean their role model for the job was the most corrupt President in the nation's history. Why would they think anyone would care about a couple of hundred thousand for clothes and spray tans?

[colemangc]

So I guess she's going to give back those silk boxers of his too, right?

[i approve this message]

not if they have skidmarks...

[macbabe]

ewwwww lol

[Actionmac]

silly but funny... and most likely true, not to mention her's... oh, I disgusted myself with that but will not remove.

[nvzephyr]

Do they make silk boxer shorts in camo?

[Emerald1943]

LMAO!!!

[DingoDave]

Yes. My son has a pair.

[sean6886]

This must be part of John McCain's "You'll know their names" promise!

[i approve this message]

I've fought the big spenders in both parties, who waste your money on things you neither need nor want, and the first big-spending Neiman Marcus bill that comes across my desk, I will veto it with this Sharpie.

I will make her famous, and you will know her name. I can't wait to introduce her to Warshington!

How 'bout that Sarah Palin, HEHHHH HEHHHH?
How 'bout her, HEHHHH HEHHH???

[Actionmac]

very happy to lol and smile about those two political mismatch buffoons. That the Lord they didn't make it to the White House.

[SuzyQ08]

LOL... that's so right on target!

[jerrypl]

I do agree that we are getting Palin fatigue, yet, nevertheless, she is an example of Republican looting, as they did with the overall economy. She showed no restraint, nor self-regulation! She IS NOT just like us! Who does she think she is to take dollars donated to the campaign and take advantage of it all. She really is an Alaskan Hillbilly. It demonstrates that she is only one thing--an opportunist of the worst type.

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com

[sandpiper1]

A family of grifters, to quote John Stewart.

[Whinger]

Hey RNC, fools and their money are easily parted, stand and deliver suckers!

[macbabe]

"according to two GOP insiders."
.... Romney, this isn't going to help you get elected in 2012, I don't care HOW MUCH $$$ the Mormons threw in and promised to help you, for helping them with Prop 8 ..
YOU S U C K !!

[DirkNLExpat]

Tell them they can keep all the clothes but they will need a visa and special invitation if they ever plan on coming back to America (the lower 48)

[inluvwkeitholbermann]

if i had a nickel for even time john said he was gonna cut wasteful spending.......

how's it feel, john?

[BIG JOHN]

GET YOUR HAND OUT OF MY POCKET.

[Dodge]

... and out of my silk boxers!

[angelrunning]

I can believe this clothes scandal, but do you guys really think Palin thought Africa was a country? I'm perfectly ready to think badly of her, but that one is giving me pause. What do you think -- true or s*mear as punishment for contributing to R*epub loss?

[RedWhiteandBrooklyn]

100% of this is coming from republicans. This is NOT gloating from the Democrats. Those who knew her & worked with her are supplying these bits of info.

[angelrunning]

Yes, but are the R*epubs trying to punish her for torpedoing Mc*cain?

[Indo001]

I bet thats made up, and all this trash is coming from Romney supporters trying to tarnish her with her own party to make way for the Romneybot in 2012

[lmrgreen]

Quite frankly, nothing would surprise me. As a former HR Manager, I've conducted testing for potential employees that involved geographic knowledge and have had many tests returned with the answer that Florida was on the West Coast. I've had tests returned that put China in Europe and India in South America. Why should Palin be any different that a large percentage of our population that has had a poor (or none) education in geography, world culture and current affairs. Not to mention Civics.

[Beninn]

“We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.” —President George W. Bush, at a news conference in Europe, June 14, 2001

When we said she was like Bush (even moreso than McCain), we weren't kidding.

Neocons and social conservatives, and even fiscal conservatives to a great degree, celebrate their ignorance. They don't want to be bogged down with details. More information leads to nuance, and then confusion sets in.

[darleneslee]

Yes, I believe that she is just that ignorant. Her two oldest children are educationally limited. The
young man her daughter is planning on marrying is a high school drop-out. I'm not even sure if Bristol has finished high-school. This is also the same woman who could not name anything she had read recently, not even a newspaper. So to America I say thank you for not having her a
heart beat away from the Presidency.

[Smirk]

Yes, I believe it. Even during the Reagan years, Americans were notorious for being poor students of world geography. Many of us have little interest in life beyond our national borders.

[KeepMeLearning]

They still are poor students of world geography. A National Geographic poll found that most young people can't find Iraq on a map--IRAQ!!!

[bakingmom]

Pale-in's entire claim was to end corruption in government. But she is the one with an ethics violation and, in my eyes, a serious problem with entitlement that is just an extension of her narcissism. The problem with the rethugs is the glass houses problem: focus on the family until it is their family; focus on corruption until it is their corruption; focus on ethics until they are the ones with the ethics violations; focus on extravagances (Edwards' haircuts or Hillary's pantsuits) until it is their own over-indulgences.

This is not a gender issue. It is a fundamental out-ing of Pale-in who declared that she was all about "transparency in government" ~ until, of course, it was she who was being asked to be transparent with respect to the press, to her spending, to her witch-doctor-preacher, to her parenting. THEN it became off-limits. She is just the epitome of hypocricy and I keep protesting b/c I fear the short attention span of the American electorate and the idea that she will "re-fashion" (ee gads!) herself for a national run is more than I can stomach. So my contribution is going to be to keep the accountability alive and well as long as she keeps looking for the spotlight.

[nvzephyr]

The really sad part is that we'd probably be astounded to find out who all got silk boxer shorts during the last 8 years.

[norkas]

silk boxer shorts do not hide sht stains well. My wife gags when she washes mine

[RedWhiteandBrooklyn]

Why not learn to clean yourself, then? If your shorts are like that, then you are walking around smelling like s--t.

[JimMan35]

But they wouldn't be paid for in violation of the McCain Feingold Act on campaign finance reform.

[CleveJim]

You mean to tell me those morons came all the way from Alaska and didn't think to pack their UNDERWEAR?? Ooops! Now really, the RNC was expected to buy them underwear? What utter ridiculousness.

[Dodge]

I go on business trips and would not dare put underwear on my expense report... that would be considered abusive expenses!
Besides that, I would look like an a$$ to my boss and co-workers!

[mairs]

You guys are foolin', right? This was all just a reality show. Right? "Who Wants To Be VP', on CBS.