Did Palin Use GOP Funds To Buy Her Children Underwear?
Did Palin Use GOP Funds To Buy Her Children Underwear?
After controversy erupted over Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) largely unauthorized spending spree, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) announced that she would no longer be wearing the expensive clothing: “Those clothes, they are not my property. … I’m not taking them with me.”
Palin, however, did take some clothes with her. The Republican party is planning to dispatch a lawyer to Alaska to “inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession.” According to Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, the governor spent the weekend separating out the GOP-bought clothes, including underwear for her daughters:
Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, said his daughter spent the day Saturday trying to figure out what belongs to the RNC.
“She was just frantically…trying to sort stuff out,” Heath said. “That’s the problem, you know, the kids lose underwear, and everything has to be accounted for.
“Nothing goes right back to normal,” he said.
Reports initially revealed that the RNC spent $150,000 on clothes for Palin from high-end stores. More recently, however, it has come out that after campaign aide Nicolle Wallace told Palin to “buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist,” the governor “began buying for herself and her family.” In the end, she spent “‘tens of thousands’ more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost.”
While there was considerable attention given to the clothes bought for Todd Palin, there have been fewer mentions of what was bought for their daughters. (At one point a picture emerged of Piper Palin carrying an expensive designer handbag, although it was later called out as possibly being a fake.)
One top McCain aide justified the Palin shopping spree by saying that someone needed to “spruce her up for national television.” It’s unclear how purchasing undergarments for her children fits into this goal. Inquiries by ThinkProgress to the RNC have not yet been returned.
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I sure hope it was that dumbass waitwear stuff.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:49 pmYou know, there’s nothing new under the sun.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
And what about her house on the lake that Todd told reporters that him and “some friends” built in TWO MONTHS…at the same time the Sports Center was being built…it was built by the same construction company that built TED STEVENS house…
Where are the receipts for those building supplies Shara? Lost you say…your god doesn’t like liars and thieves.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pmOne top McCain aide justified the Palin shopping spree by saying that someone needed to “spruce her up for national television.”
They forgot to “spruce up her brain” first.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:55 pm2 – Please don’t insult poor Miss Adelaide by comparing her with the Palinator!!
Gad.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:58 pmLooks more and more like Palin was running her own little “wealth redistribution” process for her family courtesy of the RNC’s (or somebody’s) money.
And now the ill-gotten Garanimals have got to go!
November 10th, 2008 at 4:58 pmA so much wish they had adult garanimals… I need the help.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:59 pmPiper, you bad girl! Anyone who’s been to England recognizes that obscene gesture she’s making in the photo. Shame on her. Make her give back the fake Louis Vuitton constructed by child labor in the Far East.
Let her keep the underwear, though. I mean, ick.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pmUh, isn’t that like putting lipstick on a pig?
November 10th, 2008 at 5:02 pmJeebers. Thanks, Dad. :D
November 10th, 2008 at 5:02 pmWith a few more cuts or pulls they could make her sweatshirt one of those ‘flashdance” ones her mommy used to wear.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pmBuckie Boy Says:
And what about her house on the lake that Todd told reporters that him and “some friends” built in TWO MONTHS…at the same time the Sports Center was being built…it was built by the same construction company that built TED STEVENS house…
Not only that but the supposedly Democratic lawyer hired by the personnel board to find Ms. Palin not guilty in Troopergate was the attorney that handled the lawsuits on the Wasilla sports center disaster.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:10 pmAs far as I know, the McCain/Palin campaign have been saying that much of her spending spree was paid for by one generous GOP supporter. Call me stupid, but does that or does that not go way beyond the maximum $2,300 political contribution? Are they not admitting that someone broke the law?
November 10th, 2008 at 5:13 pmMs. Palin has told us that we need to “get over” Troopergate and move on. She has also told the press that she intends to continue to charge her state a per-diem for staying at her house and charge the state if her children travel with her. She sure went back to Alaska with a pumped up sense of self. Now, we will have to wait and see if the Alaskan legislature lets her get away with it. Right now they are 22 Republicans, 17 Democrats and 5 seats that are too close to count. Apparently they could end up with a “bi-partisan” legislature whether they want it or not!
November 10th, 2008 at 5:15 pm. . . and “conservatives” want Palin, DeLay, and/or Gingrich to “save” the Republican Party in 2012? Good luck with all that.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pmWell, they were caught off guard when they went to the big city – underwear is optional in the boonies.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:17 pmFrom the look on her face I think we can all be glad she isn’t likely to every be presidential “firestarter” kid
November 10th, 2008 at 5:21 pmSorry, I was wrong, it’s a 22 Republican, 18 Democrat split, with 5 House races still to be decided.
If you want to read more about Queen Sarah’s proclamation that she will do anything she wants to do, go to http://mudflats.wordpress.com/.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:24 pmDid you all see the photoshopped version of that picture of Piper? It was hysterical.
Anyway, I can’t believe that Sarah brought any of the new clothes home with her after saying they were not hers. If she did, I do believe that was theft. And saying that some have been lost. How in the hell do you lose clothes?
This woman is a real piece of work!
November 10th, 2008 at 5:27 pmyou think queen sarah’s
gonna give back that
kid’s underwear?
(check out that picture.)
*
i don’t think so!
^
November 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pmOh, the shame of it all. A republican lawyer steeling children’s underwear.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:29 pmI imagine some of the ‘adult’ underwear can’t be returned after the results came in last Tuesday…..
November 10th, 2008 at 5:30 pmraynman Says:
good one………
November 10th, 2008 at 5:32 pmI am still somewhat baffled. As far as I know, the McCains, the Obamas, and the Bidens all managed to pay for their own clothes, as well as clothes for all members of their families who appeared on stage with them.
Now, I know that the McCains are considerably more well off than the Palins, and I doubt anyone expected Sarah to appear with a couple hundred thousand dollars’ worth of bling.
But the Palins are hardly poor. Isn’t the Alaska governor’s salary sufficient to buy decent clothes? Why was it necessary for them to spend so much of someone else’s money just to look presentable?
November 10th, 2008 at 5:38 pmThe headline for this story and its content are really in exceptionally poor taste. The RNC bought her clothes and spent an insane amount of money doing it. We get it.
But discussions about children’s underwear, complete with an image of said child, is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I would expect a lot more from our side not even a week after such an incredible victory made possible by discussing real and important issues and not all of this trivial, low-brow stuff. Cool it.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:40 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
Why was it necessary for them to spend so much of someone else’s money just to look presentable?
Maybe the Alaskan outfits of wolf hides and caribou fat weren’t considered to be fashionable enough down in the southern states. Plus the fat started to decompose.
/I keed, Alaskans.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:45 pmCome on guys. Leave Piper alone. She’s only 7 years old. Her mom and dad are total jerks and opportunists, but she’s just a little kid.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pmRufus J Squirrel Says:
It was illegal and they got caught. It exposes them for what they are, petty thieves.
We have a right to enjoy thier demise as their campaign was painfully bigoted and greed and self-righteousness oozed from it.
Guess you haven’t heard the lies that are being told at redstate about the clintons stealing and destroying things on their way out of the white house. The gao investigation said they found nothing out of the ordinary yet the right is telling it for truth.
this palen thing is right down their alley except palen et al got caught and are actually guilty.
guess the irony is lost on ya.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pmBut the Palins are hardly poor. Isn’t the Alaska governor’s salary sufficient to buy decent clothes? Why was it necessary for them to spend so much of someone else’s money just to look presentable?
I read that they have a net worth of around $1.2 million. Not super wealthy by any means, but a heck of a lot more than the majority of Americans have.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pmHey Fred, I think Squirrel’s comment was about directing ire at Piper, Palin’s 7-year-old daughter. While Sarah and Todd are certainly fair game, their youngest daughter is not.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:51 pmDid I miss something? Who is hassling the kid?
November 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pmSarah Palin is only against wealth redistribution when the money goes to help people who are actually in need.
If it’s about serving herself and her family with the biggest spoon available, then it’s ok.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pmShe couldn’t very well be photographed with her children wearing untanned polar bear pelts.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:57 pmI didn’t see the posts on this being directed towards Piper, other than my comment about the photoshopped picture which was pretty funny. In case you missed it, go here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/piper.asp
Lighten up. Piper Palin is more likely to be scarred by this whole campaign because her mother drug her around the country and used her as a prop than by a couple of comments in a blog.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:58 pmHonestly I don’t care. Palin won’t be VP, thank God I just hope she disappears up in Alaska never to be heard from again.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pmWell, if Sarah ‘Cuda bought her daughter some underwear, then at least she’s proving to be a better mom than Lynne Spears.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:01 pmHere’s an appropriate postscript to the 2008 election:
Palin (n)
November 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm1. An applicant lacking even basic job skills
2. Someone supremely un-self-aware or lacking any relative sense of what he/she does or doesn’t know.
HR sent me another Palin for the marketing manager job.
ralph the wonder llama Says:
Well, if Sarah ‘Cuda bought her daughter some underwear, then at least she’s proving to be a better mom than Lynne Spears.
Setting the bar pretty high there, ralph.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:21 pmmooseyak should accept her per diem and forget about the clothes, draws and all.
And isn’t her father just as crazy as the rest of their family?
November 10th, 2008 at 6:29 pmEvery Mother knows you can’t return underwear smart Sarah. Now as for those lost clothes well there really not lost their the most expensive one’s she wants to keep. Look the RNC knows Sarah isn’t going to give back all the clothes and most likely they will get her own used clothes as replacements. Sarah just continued to do what she does in Alaska with the taxpayers money and she did real good. Now if she has to come back and campaign for the RNC again she will have to have another shopping spree as she will bring the hold family again.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:39 pmShe is she going to auction of the underthings on e-bay too?
November 10th, 2008 at 7:11 pmThis is petty.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:02 pm@ V is for Snark
z0mg! You have discovered the online magic stick for Rethug fund-raising in the 2012 cycle!
Bwah! You keed!
November 10th, 2008 at 8:19 pmThe headline for this article is absolutely disgusting and in the worst possible taste. Who could possibly care over her daughter’s underwear. Quite frankly, if the RNC can’t keep track of their budget – it is their fault.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pmNo need to get your panties all bunched up…
November 10th, 2008 at 9:32 pmI didn’t care about the clothing story at first. It didn’t shock me at all the repubs would spend 150k on clothing her up, jewelry, hair stylists and maybe even a toe rubber. I half expected to read she went shopping with Cindy McCain.
Then, the details came out. Her greed, her sense of entitlement, shopping for Todd and the kids…and the not letting McCain know, because they KNEW he’d be upset. And then of course, her constant goddamned lies and distortions about it, all the while having that smug smile that said “I’m doing what I want, and if I want to do it, that makes it ok”.
She’s not just an idiot, a liar, whatever. She really is a peice of shit shaped like a human.
http://www.bustergetmypills.com
November 10th, 2008 at 9:34 pmWhat I find humorous is that people actually actually believe the stuff that emerges on the internet in blogs written by “so-called” adults still sitting in the basement of their parents’ house and drawing unemployment.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:48 pmWelfare Queen
November 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pmgetting dressed up requires only outerwear look presentable… they could’ve used their own underwear…
what do you want to bet some dude with try to sell purported “Bristol Palin panties” on eBay?
November 10th, 2008 at 10:18 pmbryankc -
November 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pmso right – dropped by Freeperville . . . . not a pixel of intelligent posts . . .
The schadenfreude is thick here. I feel sorry for palin and joe the plumber. Both paraded around the country in a lame attempt at populism, and then blamed when the idiotic tactic failed.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:22 pmbryankc
Aren’t you running out of Doritos?
If someone is drawing unemployment, then they are lucky, If someone has a home to go to after their foreclosure then they are really lucky.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:22 pmGame of Life
If a person is working – they aren’t drawing unemployment. If said person hadn’t of purchased a home they couldn’t afford in the first place, they wouldn’t be in foreclosure.
Could you pass me the Doritos please? I just got home from work and made the last payment on my house last year! :-)
November 10th, 2008 at 10:32 pmLat us not utter Sarah’s name again. Every time we do, she is getting publicity. Cast your ad hominems at Bush and his gang of thugs. Their evil, illegal deeds need to be publicized. Bring them to justice now.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:34 pm“……and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost.”
November 10th, 2008 at 10:36 pmNow there is a quote to live in infamy. Could you imagine Palin running any aspect of the VP or presidency when she is not even competent to return articles that have been of public notoriety and that she has promised to return? Where is her credibility? Sounds like the Bush 43 administration where nothing gets done, up is down and nobody is responsible. I could go on and on….
Perhaps that’s what happened to Bristol and Levi.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:42 pmbagdude Says:
The schadenfreude is thick here. I feel sorry for palin and joe the plumber. Both paraded around the country in a lame attempt at populism, and then blamed when the idiotic tactic failed.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
November 10th, 2008 at 10:55 pmThe Palin family income is over $200,000 per year. That’s enough to buy your own clothes. She also went wild billing Alaska for her family’s expenses staying at their home or traveling with her. Spending $170,000 at Neiman-Marcus and Sachs and for makeup certaining showed the hypocrisy in her Jane Sixpack Real (not Fake) non-elite Middle American rhetoric.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:05 pmPiper is doing the Italian two-fingered flipoff. I think Alito taught it to her.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pmKids lose lunchboxes and mittens. Outerwear. If those daughters are losing underwear, somebody from Child Protective Services needs to be called. NOW!
How many more unschooled pregnant underage daughters will it take before somebody figures out that the Palins are too stupid and venial to raise and educate children?
November 11th, 2008 at 1:33 ambryankc Says:
Something moronic. So get a job move out of your mommys basement you freeloader and put some darn clothes on because YOU are the only person whose employment status you know much less any of this other idiocy. Pretty classic case of projection so transparent that you really out to be ashamed of your stupidity
November 11th, 2008 at 1:40 amThat little girl is scarey. I noticed that on the night McCain introduced that family.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:17 amDid they really think improving an ex beauty pageant contestant’s looks with $150k was the right place to invest that money? No wonder the republicans got us into a record budget deficit and lost the campaign. There needed to be money invested into her knowledge or better yet, just pick someone else. Heck I’ll take the money if they’re just giving money away.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:38 amCheck out the following funny Palin McCain parody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv9bvrN1QMU
Well, the lack of underwear thing certainly goes along the line of those thoughtless unwanted pregnancies by Palin and daughter. Maybe it was some of Mittens “magic” underwear though? (And I agree, who can’t buy their kid underwear on their own dime when they have an income over $100,000 a year? Couldn’t they find a Walmart?) And that brings up a disgusting image of Spears coming out of a car, too. ICK!
November 11th, 2008 at 6:29 amHow bad is this woman when her own dad can’t keep his mouth shut about her spending sprees?
I’d let this have a pass if it wasn’t so damn funny to blog about.
These people are the skid marks of society.
Once again the media is not reporting this event correctly.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:59 amThe Superman underroos and the Garanimals sleep jammies were for Todd Palin, not the kids.
dbadass Says:
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Did I miss something? Who is hassling the kid?
More than a few commentors are! This topic is way too messed up and like the Republicans. Haven’t you got something better to write about than a mom and her daughters panty purchases. Even if they were bought under suspicious circumstances, this is just stupid!
November 11th, 2008 at 7:35 amthe Lone Voice of Reason Says: #65
Don’t you have something adult to talk about. Be A DULT the world needs more DULTS.
November 11th, 2008 at 7:36 amwhatever…
November 11th, 2008 at 8:16 amActually, upnorth, I can have very erudite commentaries that have nothing at all to do with underwear or potty-minded ideas. I just think it’s hilarious that she is being outed by her own father on the grandiose scale spending spree that she went on and that the media is calling her out on it. By the way, that comment of yours directed at me, saw it on a tee shirt in the 80s.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:43 amI heard that Todd even got some silk underwear out of the shopping spree. Which would be okay, I guess, if he showed up at the rallies with no pants on.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:44 amupnorth…sarah, is that you? sorry you got yer butt handed to you in the election. hey, shouldn’t you be sorting out the clothes you stole from the RNC instead of posting on a blog? just sayin’
November 11th, 2008 at 9:09 amSomebody is seriously LYING here.
She claimed last night on FOX NOISE that the RNC purchased the clothes and brought them to her. She claims she did not do the shopping.
Do the returnable items include the “First Dude’s” silk boxers????
November 11th, 2008 at 10:09 amAs Leno remarked, if Palin returns the clothes, what will a bunch of Republican men do with them ?
But seriously, I DON’T want their used underwear back !
November 11th, 2008 at 10:12 amWould that be for the change of underwear Palin’s kids needed once they realized she lost the race?
All kidding aside, if GOP funds are to go to anything, let it be for children. Not Sarah Palin, not endless war in Iraq, not for corporations that deserve to go extinct, and not for evangelicals.
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