Palin on WardrobeGate: "That whole thing is just, bad! Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Sarah Palin responds to wardrobe flap
An exclusive interview: 'If people only knew how frugal we are'

By Jill Zuckman | Tribune staff reporter
October 24, 2008

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-sarah-palin-1023-2,0,136871.story



Sarah and Todd Palin sit with their son Trig during an interview with Jill Zuckman of the Chicago Tribune. (Photo for the Tribune by Jeff Swensen / October 23, 2008)

PITTSBURGH - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin insisted in an interview with the Tribune on Thursday that she did not accept $150,000 worth of designer clothes from the Republican Party and "that is not who we are."

"That whole thing is just, bad!" she said. "Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are.

"It's kind of painful to be criticized for something when all the facts are not out there and are not reported," said Palin, saying the clothes are not worth $150,000 and were bought for the Republican National Convention. Still, she has been wearing pricey clothes at campaign events this fall. She said they will be given back, auctioned off or sent to charity. Most of them, she said, haven't even left the belly of her campaign plane.

Thrust into the national spotlight as John McCain's running mate in late August from relative obscurity as governor of Alaska, Palin has found herself under the microscope ever since, accused of being inexperienced, a drag on the ticket and, most recently, the recipient of racks of expensive clothes.

[TornadoTN]

1. Frugal? O RLY?

So that's why the highest paid staffer in YOUR ENTIRE CAMPAIGN is your freakin' Stylist?!?!!?!?

[SallyMander]

29. LOL!

:spray:

[pdxmom]

2. Hmmm...I wonder what happened to the "mavericky" Palin, who stood

up against those in her own party? She couldn't say no to Neiman-Marcus?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. She traded in her Maverick for a Lexus

[thereismore]

3. "haven't even left the belly of the plane" = She has so many. nt

[thereismore]

5. Yes the whole thing IS just bad, mavricky Barbie. nt

[chitty]

6. She's a fucking liar......

she got caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

[Raschel]

32. And they're sitting there in the interview wearing the clothes! LOL n/t

[TwilightGardener]

7. It's over for her. Her run for VP has been officially revealed as nothing but

a greedy quest for fame, stardom, and goodies. The Alaska Grifters can go back home now, we're about done with them.

[Jennicut]

8. All the clothes look in the similar style...she is a liar. She has been wearing her

$150,000 wardrobe since the convention, must have been Cindy's idea as God forbid she had to stand next to a woman with clothes from the Gap or something.

[TwilightGardener]

11. Why would she say that all $150,000 worth of clothes were just for the convention?

That would just make her look even more extravagant--and it's clearly a lie.

[napi21]

9. An AK reporter who is on KPOJ every AM said today that her stories

about being frugal are all BS! She spoke about some teenagers who visited Sarah's daughter seeing the closets open and there were 100 designer jeans hanging there. The reporter said "Even IF the kids were exaggerating, that's 98 more jeans than MY daughter has!" It sounds like Palin is a complete fraud!

[Matariki]

10. And the LIES flowed and flowed...

[Shakespeare]

12. So frugal that the 7-year-old carries a Louis Vuitton bag.

What, you compromised with her from the Birken she REALLY wanted, right?

[Disturbed]

14. "Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are."

She is so "frugal" that she charged the State of Alaska Per Diem pay while she was at her own home. She charged the State for travel of her children that had nothing to do with State Business.

Gob. Palin is a liar, an ignorant, money grubbing Sociopath & a fraud.

[LisaM]

24. EXACTLY

I guess it's possible she's frugal with her own money - not so much with other peoples'.

[Richard Steele]

36. So frugal, we pay for our "Lifestyle of the Witch and Shameless" with OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.

You want FRUGAL? Here's frugal:

$150,000 on clothes in 6 weeks: Paid for by the RNC.

Weeks worth of luxury-hotel bills and spa treatments? Paid by Alaskan taxpayers.

More thousands of "lodging expenses" for living at home? The same stupid peonspatriotic hardworking Alaskan taxpayers.

And that $500,000 home itself? Uh...that's different.
Todd and some buddies threw that together one weekend....you betcha!
Todd took a day off from Snow-machinin' and drew up all
them architectural blueprints himself...but we lost them, gosh darn it!

It certainly had NOTHING to do with fatcat Construction Moguls
providing free building construction as a kickback for their huge
State Contracts, if that's what you're thinking.

Because -THAT- would never happen in the great Sovereign Nation patriotic State
of Alaska- not with a Real American like us in charge!







(And the fact we can do all this without even BOTHERING to
hide any of it, and STILL have almost a third of US voters
think we're fit to occupy the gosh-darned WHITE HOUSE?

PRICELESS.


:puke:

[magdalena]

13. What she meant to say was....

"If people only knew how frugal we are...with our own money". When someone else like the taxpayers of Alaska or the rethuglican party can foot the bill it's spend spend spend!

[Why Syzygy]

15. I heard her say

they would be given to charity or RETURNED. She's going to wear them and then RETURN them?
Frugal. yup

[nc4bo]

16. Hell yea she's frugal. Got the Palin crib built for free didn't she?! Pretty damn frugal. nt

[TwilightGardener]

17. I have some buddies--sadly, none of them will devote several months of

full-time work, and donate materials, to build me a house. She and Taahhhd must have some really devoted friends, eh?

[nc4bo]

19. She's a POS. If I had her kind of "buddies", I'd have me a nice McMansion right now..

Such a shameless fraud and I hope she gets busted on all her sleazy/squeazer bag ways.

[fishwax]

18. it's easy to be frugal personally when someone else is buying you an entire wardrobe

:eyes:

[Realityhack]

20. Is this enough to start a FEC investigation?

Can someone ask if McCain would pardon her?

Seriously, if she is contradicting the filing in public statements shouldn't it be investigated?

[frickaline]

21. A $2,500.00 Valentino jacket is FRUGAL??

Wow I'd hate to see her on a spending spree ...

[doc03]

22. This morning I heard on the radio that Palin spent $23,000

the first half of October on her hair and makeup.

[Disturbed]

25. Gov. Palin spent $23,000 on makeup & hair care?

It wasn't her money. She is too "frugal" to spend her own money.

[doc03]

26. Sorry, I meant to say the McCain campaign payed for it, of

course she didn't.

[Lucy Goosey]

23. Right, she's so frugal she had those sports complex contractors build her home for free!

Awsome penny-pinching there, Governor!

[kwolf68]

27. criticized for something when all the facts are not out there

Go to hell Palin, you dumb hypocrite.

[JCMach1]

28. No need to attack, they just keep digging themselves in this week

deeper and deeper...

[Beaverhausen]

30. what about the $23,000 she charged Alaskans to fly her kids around?

and the $17,000 living expenses when she is in HER OWN HOUSE???

Frugal my ass.

[Norrin Radd]

31. Did she say, "Thyenks but no thyenks" to the overpriced clothes?

[Left Is Write]

33. The clothes aren't worth $150K? Yeah, well, I'll agree with that.

But that doesn't change the fact that they still SPENT $150K!

[chappydog26]

34. Once again, using that poor little baby for propaganda purposes

I HATE seeing this shit. And Palin looks like she got a stick up her ass the way she's sitting. Unless of course, she's trying not to wrinkle the clothes that she wants to "return." Damn idiot.

[Deep13]

35. These questions are upsetting my retarded baby!

I like this quote:
"It's kind of painful to be criticized for something when all the facts are not out there and are not reported."

How's it feel, shithead?

[Spike89]

37. So, she didn't receive them, but they are in her possesson?

She looked in the belly of her campaign plane and the clothes were "magically" there without her approval? She can't claim she never got $150,000 worth the clothes and crap then in the same interview claim she'll return/donate the stuff she says she doesn't have. Damn, it makes my head spin!

[Patiod]

38. So frugal she had a tanning bed in the Governor's Mansion

Which she paid for, and claims she bought used. But still. A tanning bed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/palin-installed-tanning-b_n_126625.html