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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
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So now we have clothes-gate. Which, in my mind, is nothing more than a resurrection of tanning-booth-gate.
Which, by the way, kinda dropped under the surface like a bowling ball plunking into the ocean last month. Haven’t heard much about that ol’ tanning bed lately. That scandal seems to have died kinda like that chap James Bond killed in the men’s bathroom in Yugoslavia…it didn’t die well.
I’m surprised to see it resurrected in another form. It looks like — what’s the word? Ah, yes — desperation.
Well, here’s the thing. Can someone tell me what exactly would happen if Sarah Palin went shopping at Ross Dress For Less, Marshall’s and T.J. Maxx for all her clothes to wear on the campaign trail? Kind of a support-your-local-redneck wardrobe program? What would happen then? Would all the talking heads look upon her with respect, as the icon of a redneck tidal wave not to be taken lightly? As an oasis of venerability in a desert of hypocrisy? As a noble public servant, decent down to the marrow of her bones, living a life of consistency? Truth? Believability?
No.
No.
No, no, no.
What we would hear from our news-cycle talking heads, is a bunch of pious rot about what a lofty office the Vice Presidency is, all the transformation that has been thrust upon it throughout history since it was first occupied by John Adams…how it should be looked-upon with reverence, respect and awe by all of us…especially by those of us who seek it.
And then, with varying degrees of subtlety, we’d be left to ponder the injustice of someone holding herself up as somehow worthy for this high office, while she runs around in moldy old clothes.
YEAH. There’s some hypocrisy going on with regard to this issue. But not the kind people are discussing much.
Maybe there’s even some of that old-fashioned sexism, too. What are the gentlemen wearing? And how much did those duds cost?
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Has a contributor to the RNC, multiple times this year alone, I DON’T GIVE A RAT’S ASS. To the rest, what’s it to ya’?
Yea, like she’s gonn’a wear hip waders while running for VP. Get a freakin’ clue!
Extremely disappointed in Michelle Malkin for calling out the RNC on this one.
I just wish some of the skirts were shorter 😉
- tim | 10/24/2008 @ 09:00Hear hear.
- mkfreeberg | 10/24/2008 @ 09:52It seems obvious to me that if you could have this clothes/makeup conversation outside of the context of The Abominable Sarah Palin, just about everyone (and in that case I really do mean everyone) would agree that they accept and expect, without hardly a whit of complaint, that high-falutin’ people in high places with high salaries pay ridiculous amounts of money to look the way they do. Just the way things are. The fact that this question has never come up before in the context of politicians, or any other type of celebrity, underlines that. Same old self-loathing projectionism that has been using the “if I can’t have it, nobody can” mantra to make mountains out of molehills for as long as there have been people on the planet.
- Andy | 10/24/2008 @ 10:24