$110,000 for Palin's hair and makeup

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Republican National Committee's total fashion bill for Sarah Palin's nine-week stint on the GOP presidential ticket is in: $180,000.

That's $30,000 more than the RNC previously disclosed it had spent outfitting and styling the Alaska governor and her family, according to Politico and the RNC's latest filings with the Federal Elections Commission.

The latest filing, which includes the final 3 weeks of the presidential race, shows the committee directed close to $55,000 to Palin's fashion stylist, New York-based Lisa Kline.

The RNC also spent close to $24,000 in several high end stores, including Ann Taylor, Bloomingdales, Brooks Brothers, Neiman's, Nordstrom, Macy's, Saks, Target, and Victoria's Secret.

The RNC has said all the clothes purchased will be donated to charity.

Meanwhile, the McCain campaign paid a total of $110,000 on Palin's traveling hair and makeup stylists, according to the New York Times and the McCain campaign's latest FEC filing.

News surfaced shortly before Election Day that Republicans had shelled out more than $150,00 on Palin and her family in clothing costs — a revelation that posed an unnecessary distraction for the struggling McCain campaign, and undercut Palin's hockey-mom credentials.

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Who gives a crap? Just let it die. Maybe if we stop talking about her, she'll just disappear.

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I see the obcession with this woman continues.

This is too funny.

She is going to make a fortune because of these idiots.

Money well spent, because I was digging the dirty librarian vibe.

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She has travelling hair? Wow.

Anyway, I bet that price tag made McCain glad to be male and baldish.

haha . Yeah it has it's merits! oh yeah

Crap. For a second there this looked like a bounty notice.

I can imagine Dog the Bounty Hunter going for this one. Actually, Dog has pretty nice long blonde hair -- for a guy.

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IN the grander scheme of things this is no big deal.

All it really does is give some of us some idea of how the other half lives.

But all I can say is: if it took reading Sarah Palin's bill for a makeover to make you feel some reasonably appropriate class envy, then you must not have been paying much attention to the world you've grown up in.

I've known people whose families spend more on vaction homes than my father and mother made in their entire lifetimes combined.

I personally don't begrudge the wealthy their perqs of wealth, except when they start whining about about how unfair it is that they pay a higher rate of taxes than I do.

All those complaints make me want to do is form up the pitchfork and torches posse and storm the barricades.

I confess If I were loaded I'd live well, too.

And I would sleep like a baby, too, undisturbed by the poverty of my fellow citizens just as I know most of them do.

What I would not do is expect those poorer souls to CARE than I paid more taxes every year than most of them make before taxes.

Now that kind of arrogant indifference to most people's reality is apt to make the class war go from cold to hot rather quickly.

At some point down the road, obviously way down the road, this woman should publicly thank the DNC and associated radical fringe groups, as they are setting her up for a very wealthy life. She must chuckle all the way to the bank.

Naturally she isn't the first and she won't be the last, she is just the current one, from either side.

As for her politically, who knows. It is entirely too early to even begin to guess, but, she clearly did something right when the opposition still can't let it go or the Hollywood bunch.

If I were her, I would sit pretty in Alaska, help as a coordinator for the RNC, make my rounds to keep the fires burning and then capitalize and cash in on those fires.

Buy a new plane, maybe some new snow machines, invite Greta up more often. And send Christmas cards to the DNC, The Late Show, The Tonight Show, SNL, The View, CNN, MSNBC. NBC, CBS and so on!

And maybe, just maybe down the road if she got bored enough, run for the house or senate just to irritate all of the above.

It is fun to watch.

OMG you didn't say that.

Very sensible.

Yeah, Sarah is the poster child for some who think she's the ideal Republican candidate, and the poster child for some who think she's everything that's wrong with the Republican Party, too.

They're both right in my opinion.

I think the Republican Party is really two very different schools of political theory...the bluebloods and monied interests, and the social conservatives who are basically anti-intellectuals at heart.

She is appealing because she is not as varnished as the rest, you feel like she could be your neighbor. And she is a living example of pro life values. Look she is obviously authentic in a lot of ways. You know where she stands on stuff, I'll give her that.

She is 'everything that is wrong' because she is so polarising and extreme and perhaps inflexible in some of her views. You can't effectively lead a society as diverse as the US if you don't understand the perspective from other parts of the political spectrum. Her strength is 'rallying the base' but I don't know that she has much beyond that, time will tell.

Oh please expound on that assertion.

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