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Who can blame Sarah Palin and her ridiculously expensive clothes?

Dealing with murderous dictators is easy, but telling the sales folks at Neiman's "No" to a $2,500 jacket is next to impossible... right?

I don't mind if the campaign wants to dress her all nice and pretty, but any rational person with actual "American values" would see those price tags and raise an objection. If you can't control your own image, then how can you be respected? What does it say about a woman who doesn't care about something like that? And truly, it's not as if Palin was exerting her brain power thinking through major policy issues or anything.

Then again, Palin never blinks, so...

The funniest aspect to me of all of this clothes hoopla is that Michelle Obama (you know, the wife of That One, who hates America!) wears reasonably priced dresses women can actually afford, while the supposed down-home hockey mom with a heart of gold requires Valentino on her outback back. Go figure.

Then again... Palin might be a victim of just running with a bad fashion crowd-- her closest clothes mentors are the Money Drunk McCains-- Cindy was wearing $300,000 worth of goods on one of the Republican convention nights, and John McCain wears $520 Ferragamo loafers.

Update: Oops. I guess Governor Palin was good at skimming funds off the top even before she met Cindy. Palin has been billing the State of Alaska taxpayers for her children's travel for many months. You know, it's really not a luxury unless someone else pays for it, right?