• May 27, 2012

Palin Cleared Of Wrongdoing In Expensive-Clothes Scandal That Rocked Nation

by Sara K. Smith  9:19 am May 20, 2009

Probably hasn't even taken this to the dry cleaner yetSarah Palin’s long sartorial nightmare is over, as the Federal Election Commission finally decided that the bazillions of dollars spent on her pacifiers, Italian couture jackets, and Victoria’s Secret lingerie were legal. Palin’s clothes did not constitute “personal use of campaign funds” because the funds in question came from the RNC instead of the McCain/Palin campaign.

Still: Sarah Palin should be arrested and immediately sent to Guantanamo for the grievous crime of undergirding her fancy Valentino jackets with cheap, mass-produced mall undergarments from a store whose decor literally resembles the interior of a vagina.

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington was not very happy with the FEC’s ruling.

“In effect, the FEC is claiming its hands are tied and it could not penalize the RNC or Gov. Palin,” CREW said in a release. “This means the FEC will allow political parties to buy candidates whatever they want at whatever cost, and that the candidates and their families can keep these purchases.”

FREE MONEY Y’ALLS. The sad thing is you can kind of imagine John McCain pitching the Vice Presidency to Sarah Palin just like this: “I would like you to be my running mate, and in return you’ll get shiny shiny shoes.” And she did!

FEC: Spending spree to dress Palin was legal [The Hill]

{ 39 comments }

TGY May 20, 2009 at 9:24 am

So Pantygate is at an end? Good.

rereridiculous May 20, 2009 at 9:27 am

[re=320898]TGY[/re]: I’m completely behind your pun, no matter how unintentional.

Hannibal_Lecter_MD May 20, 2009 at 9:28 am

Finally, I can sleep well at night. I was so worried about the outcome of this investigation led by none other than agent Clarice.

queeraselvis v 2.0 May 20, 2009 at 9:28 am

Now now, SKS. You know good and well that those Victoria’s Secret panties have the life expectancy of the batteries in Meghan McCain’s dildo, so SP has long since jettisoned those in favor of the Spanx she picked up at the Wasilla Dollar Tree.

ManchuCandidate May 20, 2009 at 9:29 am

Oh well. No matter what any commission or court says, it won’t make her less stupid.

hobospacejunkie May 20, 2009 at 9:30 am

The FEC punishes election rule violations like the Spanish soccer federation punishes La Liga teams for the racism of their supporters: i.e., they don’t.

Country Club Jihadi May 20, 2009 at 9:30 am

Thank God Piper can finally rock the Louis V again. I bet Bristol already stole it from her anyway.

Bypartizoa May 20, 2009 at 9:36 am

Looks like the Palins are headed to the mall! (Cue banjo music)

norbizness May 20, 2009 at 9:39 am

It’s back to bargain bin-diving at the Juneau Ross: Dress For Less outlet store.

x111e7thst May 20, 2009 at 9:40 am

What about RNC purchased S&M sex toys? What if those S&M toys are made in Pakistan by Muslins?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/world/asia/28fetish.html?_r=2&scp=5&sq=adam%20ellick&st=cse

magic titty May 20, 2009 at 9:41 am

Haha. As if she knows what sartorial means.

Texan Bulldoggette May 20, 2009 at 9:44 am

Meh, I could care less about this. Let me know when Todd’s dick visits a hooker’s vag/mouth or Snowbilly’s STD-ridden medical records finally get published.

Texan Bulldoggette May 20, 2009 at 9:49 am

[re=320928]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: oops meant “when Todd’s dick visits a tranny hooker’s vag/mouth”

There…fixed.

Mr Blifil May 20, 2009 at 9:50 am

When will the FAA pardon her for flying while in labor?

DC Hates Me May 20, 2009 at 9:53 am

I think McCain’s pitch was more on the lines of: Get dressed, whore, we’re done.

AllHat May 20, 2009 at 9:54 am

Not over. Nobody’s apologized to Rush yet.

Hart88 May 20, 2009 at 9:55 am

[re=320928]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: hey, leave Greta out of this

Big Liver May 20, 2009 at 9:57 am

Holy Shit, how on Earth do you people getting tapped to display those SarahPAC ads? Are they actually giving you money for that?

Big Liver May 20, 2009 at 10:00 am

Okay, I get it; Google Ads automatically sees a blog entry about Sarah Palin and assigns an ad to go with it? It’s done by a computer program? So, why not run several more Sarah Palin stories every day? Support Wonkette off SarahPAC, huh?

x111e7thst May 20, 2009 at 10:02 am

[re=320930]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I knew the had meth in Wasilla, but tranny hookers too?
I’m so there.

norbizness May 20, 2009 at 10:02 am

[re=320943]Big Liver[/re]: The AI for Google Ads doesn’t differentiate between sites that love her and discuss her constantly with those that loathe her (and discuss her constantly).

Kinkster May 20, 2009 at 10:04 am

[re=320943]Big Liver[/re]: I just click on every SarahPAC ad that i see and then never donate.

txjammer May 20, 2009 at 10:11 am

[re=320940]AllHat[/re]: Don’t you mean: Not over. Nobody’s apologized to Rush yet. Also.

joezoo May 20, 2009 at 10:16 am

Hallelujah! Now she can finally stop hiding and wear those “JUICY” sweatpants Greta’s husband bought her.

snideinplainsight May 20, 2009 at 10:19 am

Which store does she really shop at? “All of them, any of them, all of the many of them that have in front of me over all these years [...] (inaudible) you, Katie [...] I have a vast variety of sources where we get our shoes.”

Servo May 20, 2009 at 10:23 am

I think it’s worth the expense to see her taste in clothes…clown outfits with coaster-sized buttons. It certainly helps underline the conclusive evidence that her neurons are heavily attenuated.

germansteel May 20, 2009 at 10:24 am

The FEC saying it wasn’t illegal doesn’t mean she and her dope-hubby aren’t still a couple of ill-bred, undereducated, hillbilly grifters, unless they ruled on that, too, does it?

Show me where they refuted that.

freakishlystrong May 20, 2009 at 10:25 am

[re=320930]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Er..either way, WIN…

snoidoid May 20, 2009 at 10:33 am

[QUOTE]“a store whose decor literally resembles the interior of a vagina”{\QUOTE]

Is this true? I’m a-goin’ to the mall!

proudgrampa May 20, 2009 at 10:45 am

[re=320947]Kinkster[/re]: Too funny!!

sarcasticusername May 20, 2009 at 10:55 am

so as long as it’s the RNC and not the Palin 2012 campaign that buys her that vacation home next time around, it’s all good? oh she’s definitely running then.

hpwilliams May 20, 2009 at 11:20 am

Well I hope the RNC learned a valuable lesson

You can dress a snowbilly family up but you can’t put them in the White House.

also

Andy Bernard May 20, 2009 at 11:51 am

This means the Palin moat cleaning was also a legal expense, and too also Todd’s hotel porn.

TeddyS May 20, 2009 at 12:06 pm

The FEC is in the tank for Palin.

102415 May 20, 2009 at 1:08 pm

So are they going to retrieve those black garbage bags of dirty out of style clothes now? She can sell them on Ebay for more than they cost and get some more tatoos.

Georgia Burning May 20, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Sarah Palin needs to be the right wings’s Rev. Ike. Go on TV, raise cash from people who have little to spare and flaunt it in front of whitey, err lefty. This will mean turning an old Circuit City in Orange County to a “Center for American Ideals” with a 1200 square foot walk-in closet and an outlet store.

bitchincamaro May 20, 2009 at 2:52 pm

“…a store whose decor literally resembles the interior of a vagina.”

Address, please.

assistant/atlas May 20, 2009 at 4:01 pm

[re=320978]snoidoid[/re]: I went there once (with my girlfriend so it wasn’t too weird)….it’s not as sexy as it sounds. In fact, I would liken it not to a vagina, but to the interior of a Pepto-Bismol bottle as interpreted by Bobby Trendy.

Bruno May 23, 2009 at 6:39 pm

[re=321143]102415[/re]: All those clothes are basically in Steele’s basement now. Being stripped of funds, this may be the only way he can pay for his expense account. Or, Coleman’s legal bill

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