The first thing Sarah Palin will need is a big fat raise!

The RNC style committee ran for 5th Avenue out of fear of this:
Sarah Palin's wardrobe on the campaign trail in Alaska.


Sarah Palin's wardrobe in run for Governor without the help of the RNC.

Sarah Palin's wardrobe, makeup and accessories have cost the RNC approximately $172,000 within a three month time span. You may say, "This is old news." You have already heard about this. "So what?" You may ask.

I did some math to put this in perspective. In order to keep Sarah Palin looking this good for four years in office as Vice President, if she kept spending at the same rate would be a whopping $2,064,000.

According to InfoPlease, the salary of the vice president in 2001 was $208,100 with a $10,000 spending allowance. Sarah's gross salary for four years is a measly $872,400 before taxes. It is likely to be between $600,000 and $500,000 after taxes. So where will the additional money ($1,500,000) come from? She should be able to get some nice tax deductions for donating her used clothing to charity, but that surely won't support her need to look the part.

We might just have to start a Sarah Palin Clothing Charity or our Veep might travel the world like this:


Click image for more Sarah fashion sense from the Daily Beast.

That was then and this is now. Please contribute to the "Keep Sarah Polished" charitable foundation.



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Hockey Mom Idol has hit Celeb Status.
When does a Hockey Mom cross the line into celebrity status and cease to be a small-town gal just out there fightin' for the little guy and tryin' to reign in that run-a-way spending also? Ya' know, it has to be all about job creation and the health care.

Would it be on that magical day she spent over $4,000 on make-up consultations and applications? Or maybe the day she took Todd shopping for a few things for a mere $4,902 at Atelier, a stylish men's store? It could have been finding that darling $92 romper and matching hat with ears for baby Trig at Pacifier, a Minneapolis baby store. Was it when she confused "Drill, Baby, Drill" with "Shop, Baby, Shop" on a whopping $75,062 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis followed by one for $49,425 from Saks Fifth Avenue? And all of this money on a Governor's salary? Oh no, it came directly from the Republican National Committee's campaign funds.

Sarah Palin was introduced at the GOP convention — in what's been widely reported to be a $2,500 Valentino jacket — as a "regular hockey mom," who boasted of having put the Governor's luxury jet on Ebay and firing the personal chef from the Governor's mansion. Alaska's taxpayers were sold on her "mavericky" fiscal conservatism. She taught America that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull is lipstick.

A price tag of over $4,000 for make-up adds up to a whole lotta lipstick. The RNC assures us that all of these purchases belong to the RNC. So, what was that line about if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig?

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