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Elisabeth Hasselbeck introduced Sarah Palin at a rally in Tampa this weekend.
"As you can see, Sarah Palin sure is a woman who knows how to dress," Hasselbeck said. "I'm actually personally most impressed, you know, by her accessories, like the flag pin that she wears...."
We noticed that Hasselbeck's speech style, intonation and mannerisms are almost identical to Sarah Palin's. Shared speech coach, perhaps? If we weren't watching Hasselbeck, we would think Palin was speaking. Just an observation...
Anyway, Hasselbeck did well, looked great and got a warm reception from the crowd. Here's a clip of her speech.
Sarah Palin's emmy-nominated makup artist, Amy Strozzi (pictured on left) was the highest paid campaign consultant in the McCain camp during the month of October. The McCain campaign paid her $22,800 for the first two weeks of the month.
Zow! That's more money than McCain's chief foreign policy advisor and senior communications aide made!
Our first thought on this is that we're not mad at Palin for going the extra mile to look her very best. We don't even like to go to the grocery store without a little lip gloss, so we certainly wouldn't expect Palin to appear in front of millions without some color. Besides, as girls who spent more than we should have at Laura Mercier in Neiman's last weekend, who are we to judge?
Yet when we consider the negative PR effect of looking extravagant and wasteful to voters at a time when people are losing their homes and jobs, the makup artist expenditure doesn't seem like such a smart idea. Add that to the fact that Barack Obama has about 4 times the money in the bank that McCain has, and the makeup artist's salary seems even more wasteful.
McCain can't afford to spend all that money on makeup instead of, say, advertising and get out the vote efforts. Because according to the polls, McCain's chances of winning this race don't look good. If the McCain camp keeps prioritizing spending on beauty over voter outreach, Palin's next big speech about lipstick might go a little something like this: "I may have lost this race, but I looked damn good doing it in Pink Truffle by Chanel."
Photo above left of Amy Strozzi is from Amy Strozzi's Facebook page.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck will join Sarah Palin on the campaign trail this weekend. The McCain/Palin campaign hopes that Elisabeth will help attract more women to the ticket.
We thought that's what Palin was for, but she hasn't been as effective as the campaign would like. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that 56% of women say they question McCain's judgement because he picked Palin as his running mate.
Elisabeth represents the lone conservative voice on The View. She recently spoke against the media's focus on Sarah Palin's $150,000 new wardrobe with, "Are you looking into Joe Biden's supposed botox shots in his forehead?" Ouch.
Photo from ABC.com.
The RNC treated Sarah Palin to a $150,000 makeover that included hair styling, makeup and a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and
We've said before that we don't think it's such a big deal when candidates spend more money than the average person on clothing and shoes. They're in the public eye and they need to look nice. But $150,000? As the stock market is crashing and people are losing their homes and jobs? Hmmm... a bit much? Yea or nay?
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