Accessories before the fact: Caribou Barbie, $150,000 wardrobe included

*College OTR: Sarah Palin as Caribou Barbie Realized

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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