How Many Fits Will $150,000 Buy???

The Republican Party spent $150,000 in designer stores for Sarah Palin. Another $5,000 was spent at Atelier, a classy men's boutique, for Todd, commonly known in Alaska as "The First Dude."

Ms. Palin to appears in at least one, and sometimes two or three, new outfits per day. Well you know if your clothes are on hit the hair and face have to match, the Reps also spent nearly $5,000 on hair and makeup for Sarah Palin.

So what catagory do you list the "necesseties" in for reporting purposes? How about "campaign accessories"?

It appears that the former beauty queen contestant has not been photographed in the same outfit twice. Some of the outfits 'white tops with black skirts' should not have been worn at all since they made her look like a coffee shop waitress.

There were reports earlier this month that she had been working with a team of stylists and a voice coach. What did not emerge until today was the scale of Ms. Palins' packaging. This makes women look bad. She is campaigning for God's sake. Not selling a Hollywood picture.

We have jumped all over male candidates, i.e. John Edwards's $400 haircuts and Mr McCain's $500 Ferragamo shoes, for much less.

"The campaign does not comment on strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent," said Ms Comella, in a statement to the US political website Politico which first noticed the coyly named entry in the Republicans' accounts.