Rick Davis Calls Palin's $150,000 Shopping Spree A "Failure Of Management"

CNN:

(CNN) -- Rick Davis, the campaign manager for former John McCain's White House bid came to Sarah Palin's defense in an upcoming interview with the National Review, saying the now-infamous $150,000 clothing tab for the Alaska governor was caused by a "failure of management."

In the interview, set for publication next week, Davis notes Palin's appearance at the Republican convention came only days after she was named to the GOP ticket, and the Alaska governor had few clothes on hand that were appropriate for the event.

"We flew her out from Alaska to Arizona to Ohio to introduce her to the world and take control of her life. She didn't think 'dress for the convention', because it might have just been a nice day trip to Arizona if she didn't click with John. Very little prep had been done and if it had, we might have gotten picked off by the press. We were under incredible scrutiny."

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Comments

[chronic]

When will the r e p i g s realize "ugly" isn't in vogue?

[mamos]

As a nation we dodged a bullet.

[Freesia2]

Hush Rick. Shhhhhh.

You were hired for kazillions of dollars to run a campaign. Run it you did. Right into the ground.

And along the way a comely but illiterate, mean spirited, pathalogically ambitious and terrifyingly uneducated (and she doesn't care!) little gal played you. AND made time to go shopping. I'm thinking if someone that dense could reduce you to this pitiful defensiveness then why should you think anything you have to say would have weight with us?

Be quiet. Be gone. Take her with you.

[janice1227]

if only he'd listen, dear Freesia2. She's gum under the counter of life, dog shat on a shoe, the Thing that wouldn't leave...

[LemonMeringue]

Trooper Wooten reassigned because the troopers are getting death threats. http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/589279.html

[IhaveaDREAMwhitegirl]

Trooper Wooten should run for thr Alaskan Senate. I'd send some $ .

Pastor Muthee, we in the lower 48 have our own MutheeVoodooDolls ... BOO.

Hang in there Wooten! Palin is circling the toilet.

[mamala4]

enough about this mor.onic woman...

[Catlion1]

Oh honestly, she's supposedly a qualified, progressive, mavericky, Governor! BUT....she needed....­clothes??? But, she's a Hockey Mom, and tough, too, cause she's Alaskan, by gosh! And Heck, shouldn't she have known enough? Oh DUH, Davis, get a LIFE!!!

[Archivist1000]

yes Catlion ... and also .......

[dadw5boys]

OK, say we by that line Rick.

What about the $1000's put on an assistants credits cards that the RNC does not want to refund ?

Plain demanded those purchases on her own and told the person to bill the campaign.

[diamonds61]

If the McCains thought that Sarah Palin needed a new wardrobe, why didn't the beer heiress take hockey mom and first dude shopping and foot the bill? With all of Cindy's millions, $150,000.0­0 would have been a drop in a bucket and could have been a business tax write-off!!! Why didn't Sarah Palin just bring her own wardrobe; after all she is governor of Alaska and I am certain that she is not the empress who wore no clothes!! Obviously she talked down to the voters with her folksy betcha's while wearing sheeps (designer) clothing. Too bad all the glitter and glamor in her attire could not improve her grammatical skills THEre!!! Your children do not need Joe the Plumber for inspiration; they need Sarah the caring mother and Todd the attentive father in their lives.

[watchingthings]

you know the sayings...­..all that glitters is not gold, beauty is only skin deep, you can dress her up but you can't take her out.......­.

[wwoody]

Rick, was that the only time you exercise poor judgment, I could think of easily half dozen at least. $150,000 a big one.

[mdresch]

Davis is as stupid as Palin, if he vetted her and thought she was vp material. And is it just me or does it sound like graft when his paycheck is signed by Freddie Mac, when, he's been spending all his time on the McCain campaign? In a time far away, and a land long ago, that was buying influence, when a business paid the salary of a politicians stooge.

[DaBluAce]

lies lies and more lies.....t­rying to help sista girl set the stage for a 2012 run.....li­es lies and more lies....lo­ok how long his nose is growing...­.

[SeriousBlack]

"Rat-Face", loser Rick Davis is a total and utter nimrod.

[IhaveaDREAMwhitegirl]

Is it just me, or does R. Davis look like Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters, SNL)?

SNL, please do a skit w/RickMoranis and Tina Fey!

Priceless

[entropy2]

"Failure of Management" just about describes your whole campaign, doncha think Rick?

[chriss0114]

You betcha!

[hotstuff]

wht ya mean not click with mccain? He said he vetted her good, and meet with her and clicked right off! they were both mavericks, soul mates! My gosh what more did ya need to know they clicked/

[MargaretO]

I'm thinking Mr. Davis is fibbing. I seem to recall the Palin's were flown from Alaska to Ohio. She had time to pack business clothes.