A Makeover With an Ugly Gloss

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 26, 2008

McCain advisers have been scathing about the “sexism” of critics who dismiss Sarah Palin as Caribou Barbie.

How odd then, to learn that McCain advisers have been treating their own vice presidential candidate like Valentino Barbie, dressing her up in fancy clothes and endlessly playing with her hair.

In 1991, with Americans fretting about a shaky economy, Poppy Bush visited a J. C. Penney and bought $28 worth of tube socks and a toddler’s sweat suit in a desperate effort to seem in touch with the common folk. Palin might have followed that example and popped into Penney’s to buy some new American-made duds. She is so naturally good-looking, there is no need to gild the Last Frontier lily.

Instead, with the economy cratering and the McCain campaign running on an “average Joe” theme, dunderheaded aides, led by the former Bushies Nicolle Wallace and Tracey Schmitt, costumed their Eliza Doolittle for a ball when she should have been dressing for a bailout.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/opinion/26dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Please don't miss the astounding part about Cindy McCain's "Marie Antoinette moment"--priceless!!

cindy mccain has a hairstylist?

for that hair?

sorry- i know that was petty---but, really....

twatty thing to say!!!

Seen the latest portraits of Michelle and Cindy in Barneys windows in Manhattan?