Sarah, I posted a response which accidently included my email as I cut the funny reponse from my email to post it….and then emailed wOw to ask them to delete….didn’t realized it would have posted my email too…so must have deleted both. Sorry!

From the Wall Street Journal on Palin’s profligate spending including on luxury goods for her husband: “The McCain-Palin campaign is over, but Wardrobe-gate lives on. More embarrassing details have emerged about Sarah Palin’s infamous shopping sprees — including even more designer duds, plus sprayed-on tans and fancy underwear. On top of the $150,000 first outlined in Federal Election Commission filings, Palin spent “tens of thousands of dollars” on additional clothing, makeup and jewelry for herself and her family, including $40,000 in luxury goods for her husband, Todd, our colleague Michael Shear reports. The campaign was charged for silk boxer shorts, spray tanners and 13 suitcases to carry all the designer clothes, according to two GOP insiders. “The shopping continued after the convention in Minneapolis, it continued all around the country,” one source said. “She was still receiving shipments of custom-designed underpinnings up to her ‘Saturday Night Live’ performance” in October. Sources said expenses were put on the personal credit cards of low-level Palin staffers and discovered when they asked party officials for reimbursement. Newsweek reports that top McCain aides were stunned by the huge tab, especially after adviser Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three outfits for the convention and three for the campaign trail, with a budget of $25,000; instead, the nominee racked up six-figure bills at high-end department stores. “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast,” a McCain aide sniffed to the magazine. Palin has always contended that she didn’t ask for the extravagant makeover. The campaign previously said the used clothing would be auctioned off for charity; the L.A. Times reports that a Republican National Committee lawyer is headed to Alaska to inventory and retrieve the items still in her possession. Palin even raised eyebrows for what she didn’t wear: In St. Paul during the convention, McCain senior staffers Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter arrived at her hotel room for a briefing and found her wearing nothing but a towel, with a second one wrapped around her wet hair, Newsweek reports. “I’ll be just a minute,” she said, ordering them to chat with the First Dude while they waited.”

Mo, “Her contribution to women in politics is probably the message that any woman with good skin and decent features and a room temperature IQ can aspire to high office.” The Neiman Marxist also had $22K month makeup artist and $150K worth of clothes.

According to Open Secrets Obama raised $640M and McCain $320M, so that isn’t 10 to 1 spending, but does not include money the DNC and RNC spent…am too tired to check that. GWB won by very narrow margins over Gore, and didn’t win over Kerry by anywhere near what Obama did over McCain; yet GWB ruled as if he had a mandate. Obama has a mandate and won by over double the electoral votes and nearly 8 million popular votes, and turned solidly red states blue. Obama 365 electoral votes (projected)/65,302,008 popular vote [52.6%]. McCain 162 (projected)/ 57,335,106 popular vote [46.1%] GWB 286 electoral votes/62,040,610 50.7%, Kerry 251 electoral votes, 59,028,444 popular, 48.3% GWB won 271 electoral votes/50,999,897 popular. Gore 266 electoral votes/50,456,002 popular.

Ms. Dee, I thought probably didn’t remember it exaclty right and was too lazy to Google, thanks! It is a great quote.

Nice to ‘see’ you Dona. Hope all is very well…and that your back is feeling better.

“Forgive my Sarah Palin moment.” LOL

“They underestimated that women expect their women leaders to be ready. Not just have a particular set of chromosomes.” Amen.

Women do not get a pass because they are women. If they step up to the plate they better have the goods. Palin doesn’t in the least. I think many cry ‘sexism’ when people describe what they are seeing. Calling Palin an hillibilly idiot isn’t sexist or hate, it’s a fact.

Terrific metaphor, Emcye….so right.

Sarah, You are right….Paris Hilton meant to me amusing but she is infinitely better qualified than Palin and her values are better too. Palin is a knuckle-dragger creationist.

You’re exactly right Sherrie. She is an embarrassment to smart, capable women. And I want no identification whatsoever with ignorant women whose ambition far outpaces their preparation, ability or brains. Palin makes intelligent genuinely able women look bad. I vote for the smartest and most competent not genitals. She is a bad joke. Exactly right.

It is in no way ‘up’ to other woman, or anyone but me if I succeed, which I always have by any measure. Income, title, field, etc. It is always up to me. Period. That is such a completely iilogical idea that any woman’s success is ‘up’ to other women. Anymore than one Asian’s success is tied to other Asians, or one individual black person’s success is determined by other black people, or one man’s by other men.

“The Republican Party lost its big bet on Gov. Sarah Palin. BY C. NICOLE MASON, NOVEMBER 6, 2008 Sen. John McCain’s strategists hoped that Palin would mobilize women and tilt the election in their favor. It didn’t happen. According to the exit polls, 53 percent of women voters supported Sen. Barack Obama. The hope of capturing feminists and women who may have felt slighted by Sen. Hillary Clinton not winning the Democratic nomination did not materialize. A whopping 83 percent of people who supported Clinton’s nomination voted for Obama while McCain captured a narrow 16 percent of those voters. Unmarried and working women voted overwhelmingly Democratic as well, 58 percent and 60 percent respectively. (And Palin made no inroads among racial and ethnic minority women: 96 percent of black women and 68 percent of Latino women voted Democratic.) So what happened to the Palin factor? The truth of the matter is it never really existed. While women across the country were eager to support a woman candidate, they were more interested in supporting the right woman candidate. After the smoke cleared following the announcement of Palin’s candidacy for vice president, it became clear that gender alone was not enough to pull women from one side of the fence to the other. Palin’s positions on important issues like the war, abortion, the economy and health care were also significant factors. She was also viewed by many women as divisive and unqualified for the second highest post in the free world. This was not about internalized sexism; it was the truth. In short, she was not every woman’s woman. The narrow view of gender that the GOP tried to sell in this election cycle not only to women but also to America fell short. In the end, women voted the issues. I believe one day very soon we will see a woman elected to the office of the president, but we have to be sure she will be the right one”. C. Nicole Mason, Ph.D., is a political scientist and the executive director of the Women of Color Policy Network at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. She is also a senior research fellow at the National Council for Research on Women. She can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org.

You’re comparing apples and oranges. HRC didn’t compete in the general election….and the one that had the greatest voter turnout in decades because of Obama’s get out the vote efforts. Over 100 million of our 300 million population voted, but only around 50% and not 67% of past elections. If 28 million voted for Palin [using your guesstimate] that isn’t a surprise that 10% of our population are fear-driven regressives/racists who could be fooled by a practical illiterate given HER inability to answer the most elementary of questions that one would expect to be answered by a 6th grade civics class.