I Want To Be A Hockey Mom!
New York, Oct 23 (PTI) At a time when Democrat Barack Obama is stoving ahead in opinion polls, the Republicans are worried over the disclosure that their campaign managers spent USD 150,000 on the wardrobe of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
The party strategists fear that the disclosure and publicity might fray the image of "hockey mom" or an ordinary American they are trying to build for her. The party is still to overcome double digit lead established in some opinion polls by Obama.
"It looks like nobody with a political antenna was working on this just one more sign of the hapless decisions in this campaign," Ed Rollins, a Republican political consultant who ran President Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984, was quoted by the Times as saying.
"It just undercuts Palin's whole image as a hockey mom, a 'one-of-us' kind of candidate." Campaign reports show that Republican National Committee spent USD 75,062 at Neiman Marcus and USD 49,425 at Saks Fifth Avenue in Sept for outfitting Palin and her family. Both are high end stores.
Palin's advisers have termed the purchase as "campaign accessories" were made on the fly after Palin, the governor of Alaska, was chosen as the Republican vice-presidential candidate on August 29 and needed new clothes to match climates across the 50 states, the New York Times said.
They emphasised, too, that Palin did not spend time on the shopping, and that other people made the decision to buy such an array of clothes.
The Republicans have publicly and privately accepted that the shopping sprees on her behalf would compromise Palin's standing as Senator McCain's chief emissary to working-class voters whose salvos at the so-called cultural elite often delight audiences at Republican rallies. Palin's shopping spree were first reported by Politico. PTI
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