McCain camp’s highest-paid employee in first half of October? Palin’s makeup artist

As silly as all this appears to be, focusing on this sort of ‘news’ only gives the McCain/Palin supporters ammo to show that the Democrats aren’t interested in discussing the issues…a literal get-out-of-jail-free card after all the senseless mudslinging they have done. I concede, the shopping spree seems ridiculous, but really, is it the spending of $150k of RNC money that disqualifies her as a candidate or is it her complete lack of a basic understanding of pertinent issues? I think she herself has made that decision for us. So, let’s keep the focus where it should be, Steve. This is US Weekly stuff.

Amy Strozzi reportedly made $13,200 in September. Tifanie White, McCain’s make up artist made $8,672.50 in the same month. That’s over $21,872.50 in just one month, if I may do the math. This doesn’t count, of course the thousands of dollars in make up and hair products that were part of the $150,000 of RNC money spent on/by Palin. Guess it costs a lot to look like Mavericks these days.

To Brent

I do agree, I find this quite trivial in light of other campaign issues at hand. I’ve just decided to follow this thread for a little bit to lighten things up. Kinda needed a break from the outrage and the disbelief with the more serious topics

dlinguist – Totally understand where you are coming from. And I realize that it isn’t so much about the money as much as it is the hypocracy of peddling the contrived ‘ah shucks’ image even while spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on clothes and makeup, but in the end, her shortcomings are so drastic, that talk of cosmetics goes beyond trivial to positively comical. I guess I am a bit sensitive to this too because I feel there is such a large gap between the competence levels of the two tickets, and Palin has shown herself quite capable to digging her own grave, that spending any time critisizing her has only downside.

The average family’s clothing budget would take 80 YEARS to spend $150,000..SOMETIME’S IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS…this is serious. Palin pretends to be ‘EVERY WOMAN’. People are LOSING THEIR HOMES,PENSIONS,JOBS, 401K’S are GOING DOWN..* 9 MILLION CHILDREN LIVE IN POVERTY * at this time the REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE SHOWING THAT THEY ARE OUT OF TOUCH,It’s THE ECONOMY, are you better off than you were 8 YEARS AGO?