What $75,062 Will Buy You at Neiman MarcusOctober 23rd, 2008 | 21 Comments | Posted in Fiscal Discipline, John McCain, Sarah Palin, electile dysfunction
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I am so stunned by this report that I am at a loss for words. From what little I know about the report, I understand that the figures come from the Federal Election Commission website. If this is true, I can’t see any scenario for this ticket other than defeat.
This report would seem to blow up the narrative of the populist soccer Mom, selling Alaska’s state owned airplane on E-Bay at a profit, stopping the campaign bus at a Wal-Mart to buy some cheap diapers, and being a cost cutting budget hawk.
Now we are told that after the election, the clothes will be donated to charity. Since I can’t read minds, there is no way for me to know if that was always the campaign’s intention or if they are in major damage control after having been caught with their hands in the cash register.
The soccer Moms I know don’t shop at Neiman Marcus. They also don’t have access to hard won, donated money that is supposed to be used to win an election. It will be interesting to see what the post Neiman Marcus polls have to say about Sarah’s excellent shopping spree.
~~John Cronin~~
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/10/what-75062-will.html
What $75,062 will buy you at Neiman Marcus
Tags: Neiman Marcus, Shopping SpreeWhen we heard that the RNC racked up a $150,000 department store tab for Gov. Sarah Palin, it was hard to immediately put that in perspective. The most either of us has ever spent at one time on clothes or other personal items is under $1,000. But thanks to the beauty of online shopping, we’re now very clear on what you can get for that kind of cash. We just got done going on his and hers online shopping sprees at Neiman Marcus’ website, where we each managed, after an undisclosed number of hours, to spend $75,062*, the precise amount that Palin et al. spent there.