Exclusive - RNC Says All of Palin's Clothes Have Been Donated

Note: Cross-posted from Daily Dose, with additional commentary below the fold.

I wrote an opinion piece earlier (yesterday) about Sarah Palin, and how the Republicans are trying to trash her. While I was working on it, just for s**s and giggles, I decided to call the RNC to see if they still have Palin's clothes kicking around. (I had a plan all ready for them.)

The press office staffer I spoke to told me that all of the clothes had been donated to charity, and that he would see about getting me an official statement. I gave him my info, but they never called me back. I didn't think it was a big deal, I figured everybody but me already knew it, so I did the story without it.

Apparently, though, the fate of the clothes is still unknown to the rest of the world. Well, now we know they have been donated to charity already.

I threw this post up last night on my own website, and didn't give it much thought beyond that. This morning, though, it occurred to me how weird it is that the GOP, after taking so much heat from their own side over the fate of Palin's wardrobe, would just donate them without any fanfare, or so much as a press release.

Here's what I think.I think the RNC did the right thing, here. Despite my suggestion to sell the clothes on Ebay (and donating the money to charity?), I think that any public show of the donation would have seemed exploitative. As a media figure, I'm slapping my forehead at that notion, but politically and morally, it makes sense.

As for Palin herself, Todd Palin is putting a period on the end of that story these days. I think the story has turned around to put Palin in a more positive light. When McCain campaign insiders started to trash Palin after the election, I think she became a more sympathetic figure to many people, myself included. I see the wardrobe as the campaign's attempt to exploit Palin and the RNC, and not as Palin exploiting the RNC.

Hopefully, this will put an end to the wardrobe story, a story whose point was almost universally missed: Why would you vote for a party that thinks they need to spend $150,000.00 to make Sarah Palin look good?

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