On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There were complaints, especially about the greek columns. > > Something for an entire Democratic Party seems to be very different to > something for the VP specifically, however. >
It's not for the entire democratic party. It's for the candidate (and his running mate). > Could they have spent less on that? Perhaps. > > Could they have gotten the joe sixpack Mom looking good for less than > 150,000.00, definitely. Really? "Perhaps" on "could they have spent less than 2 million dollars" and "definitely" on the "less than $150k"? "Perhaps"? If you had said "Definitely" on both, I'd be right there with ya. > The complaint is really that on the one hand they represent her as > everymom...but on the other they want to dress her like Elite Mom. > So they should have put her in a mumu? C'mon. Marketing. Dress up the product. Make it look good. I'm not arguing that they could have spent less. Hell I'm not even arguing against the fact that they *should* have spent less. But it's frustrating to see people latch onto this and be outraged over it, yet give a pass to similar incidents of grossly overspending. The candidate whose platform is "CHANGE" is spending TWO MILLION DOLLARS on a party. > And this not at the start of the campaign, but at the end. So at some > point in time someone felt that she really didn't represent the > Republican party properly. > She was TOO ordinary. > > All this represents conflicting messages about the personality and > style of the Candidate herself, as opposed to something that was for > an entire Party. > Notice, no one is talking about John McCain's suits (he always wore > them), the Jets that take them around (standard transportation method > in election campaigns) etc. etc. > > This is a very specific item. > As is the party. And IMHO, this "very specific item" is just silly. Women's clothes cost more than men's clothes. It costs more to dress up a woman than it costs to dress up a man. Hell, look at weddings. I spent $99 on my rented tux. My wife spent thousands on her dress. The message can still be "soccer mom", but you can't realistically expect the candidate for the vice president of the united states of america to go around campaigning dressed like a soccer mom. I'm a programmer and I advertise myself as a programmer... yet when I interview, I wear a suit. Is that a conflicting message to the people who are interviewing me? No. It means that I dress the package up during the marketing phase. -- I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276362 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
