McCain campaign hid cost of clothing items from Sarah Palin

Left-wing bloggers, gossip columnists, Democrats and the in-the-tank-for-Obama media have all made hay over the price the RNC paid for clothes that the McCain campaign inisted that she wear during the 2008 election contest.

We have said many times that the $150,000 wardrobe was something that Sarah Palin never asked for, didn't shop for and would have preferred to do without. Now a nugget from the new book by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, Sarah From Alaska, confirms what we have maintained all along:

Stylist Lisa Kline also addresses the controversy over the cost of clothes Palin wore on the campaign trail.

When "Palin... expressed concern over the exorbitant expense of some" of the items, Kline and Palin’s assistant removed the price tags to keep her unaware of the cost.

In her own book Going Rogue, Associated Press Writer Richard Pienciak reveals:

Taken aback by all the fussing, she wondered who was paying for the fancy clothes - family members were told it was being taken care of or was "part of the convention."

But those out to destroy Sarah Palin have never let facts get in the way of a good smear job. And they never wanted to talk about the more than $150,000 the Gore campaign paid Naomi Wolf to be Big Al's fashion consultant during the 2004 presidential race.

- JP