Elisabeth Hasselbeck of "The View" campaigned with Sarah Palin over the weekend, and accused the media of being “deliberately sexist” and for becoming so “fixated” on Sarah Palin’s clothes and not on the real issues.

Palin also called the clothing story “ridiculous,” and said she’s back to wearing her own clothes – and told voters her wedding ring costs $35.

Palin has been under fire for reports that said she spent $150,000 of Republican National Committee money on clothing, shoes, hair and makeup during the time around the party’s national conventions.

"Now, with everything going on in the world, seems a bit odd,” said Hasselbeck, who takes a beating regularly on "The View" by her fellow co-hosts for her defense of Sen. John McCain and Palin. “But let me tell you, this is deliberately sexist.”

“I have a hard time not being sassy,” she added. “I can’t help it.”

Later: “As you can see, Sarah Palin sure is a woman who knows how to dress … Did I mention that this woman, she’s got a real knack for cleaning,” Hasselbeck continued. “She cleaned up house in Alaska. Yup. All that corruption went out with the trash.”

The McCain-Palin campaign has said the clothes will be donated to charity. She says she’s now wearing her own clothes.

The Alaska governor took the opportunity after Hasselbeck’s introduction in Tampa, FL, to pounce on the clothing issue without “the filter of the media.”

"This whole thing with the wardrobe, you know I have tried to just ignore it because it is so ridiculous,” she said.

"Those clothes, they are not my property. Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased, I’m not taking them with me. I am back to wearing my own clothes from my favorite consignment shop in Anchorage, AK. You’d think — not that I would even have to address the issue because, as Elisabeth is suggesting, the double standard here it’s — gosh, we don’t even want to waste our time."

Palin also said: “My wedding ring, it’s in Todd’s pocket cause it hurts sometimes when I shake hands and it gets squished … A $35 wedding ring from Hawaii that I bought myself … cause I always thought with my ring, it’s not what it’s made of, it’s what it represents and 20 years later, happy to wear it.”

Palin also suggested Barack Obama was being a little presumptious about winning the White House, citing reports that his campaign has already drafted an inaugural address. She said the McCain campaign was not taking the votes for granted. Palin has lately been trying to woo women voters, even those who supported Hillary Clinton.

“John McCain and I, we’re out here asking for your vote so we can get to work for you, and a lot of folks are still undecided,” she said. “And you know, Barack Obama and I, we both have spent quite some time on the basketball court. But where I come from, you have to win the game before you start cutting down the nets.”

The New York Times notes that in an interview on Thursday with Fox News, Palin named her favorite consignment shop as Out of the Closet in Anchorage, which, according to its website, offers “affordable high-end designer labels and brands not otherwise available in Anchorage,” like Prada, Armani and Gucci.

McCain, in an appearance Sunday on “Meet the Press” on NBC, was asked about the episode, which Tom Brokaw, the host, suggested was “a colossal mistake.”

“Look, she lives a frugal life,” McCain said. “She and her family are not wealthy. She and her family were thrust into this, and there was some — and some third of that money is given back. The rest will be donated to charity.”

McCain: Palin, a ‘Diva’ Going ‘Rogue?’

Palin’s defense of her clothes wasn’t exactly in the official script for that event.

Some media reports say the Republican vice-presidential hopeful has been ad-libbing more on the trail, rejecting the advice of McCain aides, with some campaign insiders calling her a “diva.”

CNN reports that several McCain advisers have suggested that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue."

Politico also reports this story. "She’s lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," who handle her, said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. "I think she’d like to go more rogue."

Anger among Republicans who see Palin as a party star and as a potential future leader has erupted because, they say, they see other senior McCain aides trying to blame her if he loses.

A Palin associate, however, told CNN that the candidate is simply trying to "bust free" of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged roll-out of her candidacy and image. This associate says Palin is trying to take more control of her own message.

McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. 

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," one McCain adviser told CNN. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."

A Palin associate defended her, saying that she is "not good at process questions.”

"We acknowledge that perhaps she should have been out there doing more," a different Palin adviser recently said, arguing that "it’s not fair to judge her off one or two sound bites" from the network interviews.