A Bankers Best Friend

It's no secret that financial institutes love a conservative candidate, as they are normally very vocal in their position on regulating them - meaning they just don't. Conservatives massive deregulation of the financial sector played more than just a supporting roll in the economic downturn.

And guess who gave money to Scott Brown's campaign? A LOT of money...

The donations, from hundreds of financial executives, far exceeded what Brown received from doctors and others in the health care industry in the final days of the campaign. While Brown saw donations from all quarters explode in mid-January, as polls showed him closing fast on opponent Martha Coakley, the donations from financial workers coincided with several key developments that would affect their companies.

And now banks can throw as much money to a candidate as they want, since the SCOTUS decided that money is speech and corporations are people. But as I've stated before, this won't always play out in the favor of conservative Republican candidates, as the donor will be listed on any and all campaign material they finance. But the question is - will the voters care? They should.

Joe The Plumber, Meet Sarah - The Fashionista

When confronted about the $150 grand that the RNC spent for Sarah's clothing, she is quoted in a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune's Jill Zuckerman as saying:

That whole thing is just, bad!

Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are

It's kind of painful to be criticized for something when all the facts are not out there and are not reported,"

She then proceeds to deny, deny, deny even though financial disclosure documents show it to be true, true, true.

Well, it seems that she has become so used to getting not only her way but getting the clothes she wants, there was a little "wardrobe issue" on Saturday Night Live.

Of Palin, Broecker said, "In speaking with her, I had to get her to understand why she needed to wear the same thing as Tina [Fey]. We had gone off and created it for the first time a month ago, a look we identified as Sarah Palin. She had moved on in her own image of herself. I said, 'I know you've moved on ­ you're wearing tighter clothes, more black ­ but this is the character of Sarah Palin.''

The compromise, he said, was Palin returning in her own clothes the second time she appeared on the show to cheer on Amy Poehler's Palin-themed rap.

And now, it's come to light that Palin's highest paid staffer is








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her "make-up artist".

And this woman is of the party that spent weeks worth of coverage on John Edward's $400 haircuts.

Prêt-à-Porter?

Not exactly.

The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.

More here here.



And this is the party that lambasted Edwards over $400 haircuts.

The RNC has spent more than 5-times my annual salary on clothes for Sarah Palin in less than 2 months.

I am Joe-The-Plumber?

Yeah, they really identify with that guy.