Wardrobegate: Sarah Palin Goes Off Topic To Defend Her $150K Wardrobe For Her Own Good
Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor on Sunday brought up the recent media reports regarding the Republican National Committee’s $150,000 spending spree on clothing and accessories for the Palin family.
Sarah Palin denounced discussion of her wardrobe as “ridiculous” and declared emphatically: “Those clothes, they are not my property.”
“Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased, I’m not taking them with me,” Sarah Palin said at a rally in Tampa, Florida.
A senior McCain adviser told CNN that those comments “were not the remarks we sent to her plane.” Palin did not discuss the wardrobe story at her rally in Kissimmee, Florida, later in the day.
A Palin aide, however, told CNN that the governor clearly felt like she had to say something to defend herself, because “that’s really not who she is.”
Over the weekend, sources told CNN that long-brewing tensions between Sarah Palin and key aides to John McCain were on the rise.
Several McCain advisers suggested that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue.”
A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to “bust free” of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged roll-out.
McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls — recorded messages often used to attack a candidate’s opponent — “irritating” even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan.
A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.
“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” this McCain adviser said. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
“Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”
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