{"id":1277,"date":"2008-10-23T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2008-10-23T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T14:18:31","slug":"deficiencies-of-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Deficiencies of Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mona Charen over at The Corner<\/a> thinks that Palin’s $150,000 spent on wardrobe in two months isn’t really all that impressive. To demonstrate, she points out that Obama’s suits are rumored to cost as much as $1,500.<\/p>\n

Of course, for Obama to buy enough $1,500 suits to spend $150,000 in 52 days – the amount of time between Palin’s selection as Vice Presidential nominee and when the story broke on Monday – he would need to buy 1.9 suits per day.<\/p>\n

Of course – Charen also points out that some of the money was also spent on the rest of the Palin clan – but the amounts here seem to be relatively trivial – $5,000 on her husband<\/a> for example.<\/p>\n

This is also clearly part of a history of Palin using public office for her private enrichment – from the budding travelgate scandal, in which Palin charged the state of Alaska for all of her children’s and husband’s travel and for hotel rooms, adding up to at least $40,000<\/a> (not including her own travel) – to the per diem<\/em> charges she billed to the state of Alaska for every night she stayed in her own home adding up to some $16,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on her dismissal of the outrage over Palin’s expensive wardrobe due to her faulty math skills and partisan blinders, Charen declares the real reason for the outrage:<\/p>\n

I cannot escape the suspicion that one reason everyone is so exercised (other than the obvious, i.e. that she’s a Republican) is that she is so gorgeous in those clothes. There is simply no other woman in political life to match her. The green-eyed monster strikes!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By that logic, can’t we also accuse all those conservatives out there of jealousy – as they brought up John Edwards’s $400 haircuts at every mention of his name?<\/p>\n

I just don’t buy it. I think $150,000 in a close fought race is a lot of money to spend on clothes.<\/p>\n

At the same time, this reinforces some of the more unsavory aspects of the scandals brewing in Alaska.<\/p>\n

It’s news – whether Mona Charen likes it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mona Charen over at The Corner thinks that Palin’s $150,000 spent on wardrobe in two months isn’t really all that impressive. To demonstrate, she points out that Obama’s suits are rumored to cost as much as $1,500. Of course, for Obama to buy enough $1,500 suits to spend $150,000 in 52 days – the amount […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,45],"tags":[891,892,53,889,117,890,663,662],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","tag-150000-wardrobe","tag-400-haircuts","tag-john-edwards","tag-mona-charen","tag-national-review","tag-one-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar-wardrobe","tag-sarah-palin","tag-the-corner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-kB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}