Or is it the other way around?
Everyone, it seems, is in a tizzy about the Republican Party having given Governor Palin a designer-clothing shopping spree so she would look appropriately vice-presidential on the campaign trail.
"What a waste!" They claim. "Wretched excess!"
Of course, you realize that if Governor Palin campaigned in her usual Wasilla togs, no one would praise her frugality and down-homedness.
"What a slouch!" They would howl. "Wretched stinginess!"
We like to pretend that we judge people, as Dr. King once said, on the content of their character.
Baloney. Americans judge by image more often than not.
And, as Senator Clinton and House Speaker Pelosi already learned, female politicians are much more likely than their male counterparts to be judged by their dress. Or pants, as the case may be.
It just seems like such a no brainer to me. I mean don't they teach you this in college? "When going to an interview dress for the position you want." All Palin is doing is taking some good advice.
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