Oh, f*ck they are dancing as fast as they can about CariBoo Barbie! Morning Scoop

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

MSNBC..

A Twerp is rationalizing Barbie's (she really is Barbie now) clothes expenditure about all of the appearances she has to make. That Barbie has to look as perfect as possible. Twerp saying it's as if Barbie is making 29 appearances on tv series!

This is totally sick.

Tell that to someone who's trying to put food on their table for their kids, trying to get medical care and can't afford it... they can't dance their way out of this one.

Shame on them.

[demnan]

1. If Hillary had done such a thing

they'd be all over her like white on rice.

[remember2000forever]

4. Hillary always rotated her pants suits on the Campaign trail. Sarah never wore the same outfit 2Xs

[oviedodem]

9. Very true. The black jacket with the green trim she wore at one of the debates I

saw 2X's on the campaign trail after that. Yes, even though an Obama supporter I watch as much of everyones rallies as I can.

[DangerousRhythm]

2. I saw that woman...

It was amazing how hard she was spinning. "I can wrap my head around this..." and she goes on about actors and actresses. Oh boy.

[TornadoTN]

5. Yeah, using the actors and actressesess analogy is going to get them really far

Especially with the center-right independents. Besides, this is the same group of people screaming about "personal responsibility" and "we know how to manage money", not to mention "Sarah Palin is better qualified than Barack Obama". They are acknowledging that she is little more than a pretty face and an (empty) suit.

[Phredicles]

26. Right, but remember: It's Obama who's the "celebrity".

In short, :eyes::eyes::eyes:

[lisa58]

3. You're right - she really is Barbie now...

...I've hesitated using the term, but if all she's done so far is dress up - that's all she is.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Retro Barbie!

[ErinBerin84]

6. Again, I don't really care about this in terms of issues

but Marc Ambinder wrote that Republicans were pissed about this, and I think they have a right to be. It really makes their socialism thing look hypocritical. It's not that this much money was spent, it's that it was the RNC's money....I can't even imagine how much of a field day they would have if this was a Democrat.

[Two Sheds]

34. Of course it's small potatoes; but this late in the game...

you ride this for as many news cycles as you can. If the Dow keeps sinking so much the better.

[Clio the Leo]

8. I didn't understand her math....

.... as I said here last night, you can get decent, designer stuff from those stores for $500 or less .... if we give Palin the benefit of the doubt and assume that's all she bought, that's 300 outfits .... OR she's spending WAY more than $500 per outfit.

Either way ...... not good .... not good at all.

Not that I'm a clothing elitist, quite the contrary, but even if I have enough sense to know that you have to be cognizant of the money you're spending, whether its public money or not. Remember when Michelle was on The View? The big talk was that her dress only cost $120? Then Cindy at the RNC? Her suit costing $4,000.

Do these people not think?

[lisa58]

10. The math goes like this: When you shop at SAKS every price tag has an extra zero at the end....

...a pair of shoes you may pay $60 for is $600.

...a dress you may pay $120.00 for is $1,200.

...a suit that you may pay $500 for is $5,000.


That's how you run up a $50,000 tab at SAKS

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. Years ago, I worked a block away from Saks in NYC, and when they had clearances,

they would reduce those clothes between 75-90%. I had some wardrobe back then.

[lisa58]

17. The only way to shop!

[riqster]

24. Naaah. Hit Goodwill for the REAL deals.

Good suits for $8.00, shirts for 3, trousers for maybe 5 bucks at most.

Thrift shopping is definitely the berries.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. I have been known to hit thrift shops in my life and focus on the ones

in the high end areas near where I live.

[leftynyc]

25. I worked in the same neighborhood

And you're absolutely right. Saks had the best sales. Expensive neighborhood but I do miss the window shopping. It's Neiman's (or Needless Markup as I call it) that is very chi chi.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. I loved working in that area. Lunch time was fabulous. All of the bookstores,

Central Park and Saks. I first worked at 57th and Madison for a law firm and we moved to the Olympic Tower building. Right across from St. Patrick's. Later on, working for a different law firm, I had the privilege of having my own office in the Chrysler Bldg. Sometimes I really miss living in the city. I am completely priced out now.

[leftynyc]

37. All such nice areas

I was at 640 Fifth (corner of 51st) and used to go to Rock Center every day for at least a few minutes just to chill. Now I'm at Park and 32nd. Not as fun an area but cheaper food for lunch. You worked in the Chrysler??? What a great building and certainly the prettiest sky scraper in the city. I lived in Brooklyn for 8 years but could never make the move to Manhattan - too much concrete. I live in Westchester now.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

39. From Queens, I started working in Manhattan at 18 (before then, it was my playground).

I moved into Manhattan right after I was married in 1980. I was in a 15 minute walking distance to the Chrysler Bldg. We started to get antsy because there was as you said, too much concrete. We decided to bring my car into the city (I had left it at my parent's place in Queens) so we could escape on weekends when we needed to. We also looked to move to Park Slope but couldn't find the right fit. We wanted to buy and the prices kept escalating for what we wanted. A little bit after that our building was going co-op and because we wanted to have children, we took a buy-out to leave and moved up to No. Yonkers for four years. I stopped working, got pregnant, had my first son in Yonkers and needed to get out of there. I wanted to be surrounded by NATURE! So I'm in northwestern Westchester now for the last 21 years! Still surrounded by Nature in a condo townhouse development. The deer don't even run anymore when cars drive through. :)

I do miss the convenience of living in Manhattan. Falling out of bed and everything being right at my fingertips and not having to wait for my car to warm-up or having to keep my fingers crossed that my car will start-up at all!

:hi: neighbor!

[leftynyc]

41. My whole family

is in Westchester. Folks in Somers, twin in Bedford, cousins in Chappaqua and I'm in Hartsdale. My commute is 30 minutes to GCT so it's a piece of cake and then I walk to the office. Park Slope is where I lived in Brooklyn and I did love it but my roommate wanted Manhattan and I didn't so to the burbs I went.

We really are neighbors!! My nephew is working for Jon Hall (sp?) this election season. It was really sweet to get rid of Sue Kelly two years ago. My rep (Nita Lowey) is running unopposed.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

43. lol! John Hall is my rep and it was fantastic that Kelly was ousted. Hartsdale is lovely

and we did look at co-ops there before deciding on Yonkers (incredibly gorgeous tudor riverview co-op). Commuting time into Grand Central from Yonkers was less than a half-hour.

I'm in Cortlandt Manor, near Peekskill. My ex-in-laws followed us into Westchester and lived in Mt. Kisco then Chappaqua. I remember when the Clinton's moved there and my ex-sister-in-law couldn't wait to show me their house! I was shocked. A not too large dutch colonial on a cul-de-sac, very little set-back from the street. The Secret Service van was halfway in the driveway and halfway on the road. :)

My ex's brother and his wife are now split and returned to Manhattan. My brother and sister decided to move out to California and my mom is in Florida. So it's just me, my ex (we still reside together) and our sons here. Actually my youngest is upstate at college as a freshman and I miss him so much it hurts at times. It's great for him though.

You are so lucky to live in such a true blue district. Although his competitor doesn't have very much money to run on, I'm concerned about John holding the seat. He eked out his win in 2006. I've signed up to make calls for him next week.

Have a great night and keep warm! :hi:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. It's easy to understand. McShame thinks middle class is someone with $5 Million dollars.

Enough said.

[marions ghost]

11. I don't see where the money went....

the same form-fitting skirt suit in multiple colors....nothing special. I don't even understand how they managed to spend that much.

Typical Republican extravagance. Gotta shop at the "right" stores....and pay a whole lotta money to prove themselves. They're always trying to prove how special they are with their clothes.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. I bet those lapel pins add up up to a tidy sum. Then she had to clothe the girls and Tawd......

[marions ghost]

19. yeah really

the big rococo flag pin just screams Hollywood, with it's royal curlicues

This has such a Beverly Hillbillies flavor....Tawd's Girls go to Washington. One of those retro movie scripts with underlying Cinderella theme....everybody's all shiny clean and they drive up to the White House in their new white Buick (Tawd's letting her drive for a cute twist)...when they get there a white cockapoo with a rhinestone collar runs down the driveway. Joe Plummer and Joe Sixpack peek out, on break from their manual labors, and wave "hallo Miz Palin! welcome home."

Just an average American family....

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. lol! I love your synopsis except I'd make one change... not a Buick but a Cadillac Esplanade..

after all, she's gonna drill, baby, drill..

[marions ghost]

28. yeah LOL, how about

in the movie they drive around front in the Buick after dropping off the Esplanade around back (Joe Car Mechanic is gonna have to tinker with it before they can take it over to the hockey rink this afternoon).

Taking a page from the soon to be ex-VP's playbook. ;-)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

31. We need a bit of conflict here... Sarah takes the Esplanade over to the

hockey rink where her former paramour Brad (Todd's ex-partner) now coaches.... lol!

There is also a great mystery! Squirrels start disappearing from DC. People wonder if that has anything to do with shotgun blasts heard in the dead of night.....

A month or so, after the Palin's move in, they open their home to Architectural Digest, and the whole house is decorated in stuffed squirrels........

[marions ghost]

38. ah the plot thickens

OK LOL-- Sarah has insisted that the Second Dude of Alaska come along for the joyride in DC. Brad is installed nearby coaching at the rink and the Palin kids call him That One. He becomes kind of a family pet like the famous Kato Kaelin at OJ's house. The First Dude puts up with it because Sarah makes the big money and y'know all those stressed-out powerful political figures have affairs...wink wink. But he doesn't like it and one day gets drunk and runs the 2nd dude down with the Esplanade. Brad plots against Tawd when he finally gets out of rehab (stay tuned). Meanwhile Sarah is conducting the Architectural Digest photographer through the house and some interesting pix end up on the internet from one of the pelt-covered rooms. Sarah's also trying to push Polar bear fur coats around Washington because what are they going to do with all those Polar bears starving on the ice floes from global warming--it's the humane solution and every Republicon in Washington wants to get the Palin Look (the RNC is giving them as Xmas gifts).

Maybe those people who did W would buy the script? :)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. Queen Sarah is out of touch with her Joe Sixpacks

[Avalux]

16. Not just her but her mascots too. And then there's the travel expenses.....

the woman is a mess and as much as this stuff may seem insignificant, it matters when she's out there saying what she does.

My mom calls baby Trig Palin's mascot. Funny.

[radfringe]

18. spin it as they may - GOPers are subsidizing CB's wardrobe

couldn't this be considered "socialized fashion"? isn't this a form of "welfare"

if a bill came before congress which provides $100 per child for "back to school" clothes - what would the repubs say?

[justiceischeap]

20. I could understand clothing the VP nominee, I really can

But her family? That's just too much. And they could have clothed her for less too.

[davidpdx]

21. I caught the tailend of their discussion about Cariboo Barbie

and it sounded like they were getting a lot of hate mail.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

33. and it seemed many were directed at Mika, herself. Defending the indefensible.

Then she has the cojones to question how much Obama spends on his suits. That would be none of her damned business because he doesn't spend his clothing money from his campaign funds (as per Politico).

[EffieBlack]

22. Mika said that because Palin's a woman, she's under much more scrutiny so she has to spend more

Uh-huh.

[yardwork]

35. It's true that women are under more scrutiny but that is even more reason not to do this.

If Hillary Clinton had used DNC money to pay for her wardrobe and makeup we'd never hear the end of it. I don't care that candidates spend hundreds of dollars on haircuts and makeup - I understand that they have to look good for the cameras all day long.

But spending 150 THOUSAND dollars buying designer clothes at Neiman Marcus? That's just stupid. And spending the campaign's money to do it? Double stupid.

[bushisanidiot]

27. So they're saying the voters only care about Palin if she looks good, right?

She can't be just an "average Jane", she has to be hot or the repukes won't come out to her rallies. They like the high heels, tight shirts and short tight skirts. That's what they come out to see. She could be reading from a phone book for all they care. what idiots.

Hillary wears a pantsuit and the repukes accuse her of being a lesbian.. as if that's a bad thing.

[krkaufman]

32. Was there a similar defense on Morning Schmoe re: Edwards meager-by-comparison $400 haircut?

(rhetorical)

[Quantess]

36. $150,000 could buy a small house in some parts of the nation.

$150,000 for new clothes and accessories is excessive, to put it mildly.

[RoyGBiv]

40. It could by a large house in some places ...

A friend talked her husband into moving back to her old home town in Oklahoma 'cause they were able to buy a ~5000 square foot home for $120K.

Thing was huge.

[Left Is Write]

42. It's a little hard to paint the Democrats as elitists and spendthrifts...

...while dropping 150 large on clothes and makeup.

[Disturbed]

44. Greedy Palin will autograph those clothes & auction them off

to her adoring Cult.