This week there is a huge hubbub over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe expenses. There’s still some life in the story and my favorite headline from the conservatives is from this National Review piece.
The problem isn’t that the wardrobe cost so much. It’s that Ms. Palin has said on numerous occasions that she’s just a “hockey mom” and part of the “Joe Six-Pack” nation. There were problems with this assertion before this latest gaffe.
The weird thing is that conservatives BUY IT. They believe that a couple making over a hundred grand a year is “just like me”. The other people on the ticket all make more money than Palin, to be sure, but come on. Joe Six-Pack if your six-pack includes six bottles of expensive champagne. When was the last time YOU spent $75k on clothes from Neiman-Marcus?
Conservatives got all crazy about John Edward’s $400 haircut and fashion expenditures of Hillary Clinton. The shoe is on the other foot now. And that foot appears to be in the self-righteous mouth of the GOP.