$150,000 on clothes....just like the rest of us

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by creekster

Here's the thing about this 'regular people' stuff: You can't fake it. IMO, either you are or you're not a regular person. Regular people can smell the difference a mile away. No matter how many times obama drops a 'g' from a word ending in 'ing', everybody knows he is not a regular guy. Conversely, if Palin added a 'g' every time she used a word ending in 'ing' everyone would still realte to her as a regular person.

So you can dress up Palin in all sorts of expensive clothes, but she still gives off the regular person vibe (lipstick on a pig still leaves a . . . oh never mind). People might be disgusted that she spent 150k on her clothes, but regular people will now see her as a regular person who spent 150k on her clothes, not as an elite who revealed her elitism.

I think that's mostly true, except that regular people hate wannabes and poseurs. So she's got to convince the public that she's just dressing up like the elite establishment in order to infiltrate them, not because she's always wanted to become the elite establishment but just never had the money to do so.

In fact, my guess is that many regular people will have a "you go girl" attitude abotu the news."

That's the one thing she has going for her: For her supporters, any criticism or expose' is simply dismissed as further evidence of the elitist media's conspiracy to suppress a rising star from the conservative middle-class. They almost relish this kind of coverage, because it confirms their suspicions about how the world works.