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The Sarah Palin chronicles just won’t end:

RNC to report another $30,000 spent on Palin wardrobe

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“The Republican National Committee is scheduled to file a campaign report with the Federal Election Commission Thursday disclosing that the committee spent additional funds to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin,” the National Journal reported late Wednesday.

“In October, Politico revealed that the RNC had spent approximately $150,000 on clothing and accessories for Palin and her family after she was selected as Sen. John McCain’s running mate,” the magazine added. “The story provoked a storm of criticism of the Alaska governor, a mother of five and favorite of the conservative wing of the GOP.”

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In early September, the RNC’s clothing buys for Palin included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for $49,425.74, and shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one totaling $75,062.63 in September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September, Politico reported.

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First, in a time of economic crisis, how could Palin and the GOP be so out-of-touch that they saw no problem spending $180,000 on clothing, jewelry and makeup for their Vice Presidential candidate?

And second, $180,000 is a huge amount of money.  Had that money been invested elsewhere, it could have helped the GOP keep a Senate seat or hold one or two House seats.  Considering that the McCain-Palin campaign was being vastly outspent by the Obama-Biden campaign, it’s unimaginable that they would waste their donor’s money like this.

This is a perfect example why Sarah Palin and the GOP can’t be trusted with the reins of government–if they run a political campiagn into the ground by wasting money on frivolous nonsense, what would they do if given the entire Treastury Department?