All Votes are Final -- Campaign Couture? Not So Much

The McCain-Palin ticket promised to do something to boost the economy, and even though it lost, it kinda sorta did.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the luxury store Neiman Marcus got whomped with a 26.8% decline in sales from last October. Other chains like Saks and Nordstrom took a big hit, too. And the month before, in September, Neiman Marcus' sales figures were down by 11% from a year earlier.

Imagine how much worse those numbers might have been if it hadn't been for the shopping sprees reported by the RNC for the Sarah Palin candidacy: $75,062 at Neiman Marcus, $49,425 at Saks, and an afterthought-looking $9,447 at the mid-market Macys.

The Times also reported that the RNC may be heading north to Alaska to repossess what it can of the Cinderella wardrobe, but on the campaign trail, Palin herself had already said she regarded them as props: "These clothes -- they're not my property, just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased. I am not taking them with me.''

What, I wonder, is Neiman's return policy? Full refund up until thirty days with the tags still on? And after that, just store credit?

But is the store credit good until 2012?

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Comments

[Pacojam]

If her honesty during the campain is any indication, she will never return the clothes. In any case, so what?

[WarriorLemming]

If Palin said the clothes are "just props" then why does the RNC have to go all the way to Alaska and retrieve them. I think Palin might have a true problem amongst all the other problems like geograghy, etc. Makes me wonder what was in those medical reports that she never seemed to make public although everyone else made theirs public. We may have found out she was clinically assessed as a narssasist. Someone from the campaign did refer to her as a wack job.

[LeftRight]

Because she was just saying that, just like she was just saying that she was qualified to be anything more than a housewife and mother!