Run, baby, run! Palin 2012, baby! Oh, YES! Count me in for a $20 donation when she "goes live" -- for pure entertainment value. Following on the light-hearted fun of an earlier diary I posted after the 2008 election, now comes Todd Palin, inspiration for Part Deux.
While the current President of the United States is busy representing the nation so well in his European trip, with the current First Lady receiving spectacular reviews both for her style and substance -- both the epitome of American style, class, and grace not seen in years (decades?) from this country's First Couple -- the potential future First Gentleman of the United States is quoted thusly:
I couldn't give a rat's ass about clothes. Please.
Updated: I can't think of a better ACTUAL news article to be published on April 1 -- April Fool's Day. Joke's on you, Todd?
Please -- indeed! As in: Please God, let these yahoos inject their Northern Exposure faux-reality show melodrama into the Republican primaries in 2 years. Oh, the hilarity!
In my earlier diary, I wondered about the whereabouts of the infamous silk boxers. No word yet as to whether Men's Journal asked Mr. Palin about this. I still have this image of the Palins throwing stuff out of the back of the plane on its descent to the Anchorage airport after Obama's decisive election victory last November -- the Alaska tundra littered with high-fashion lingerie, accessories, and other unmentionables, with the First Gentleman zipping off on his snow-machine under cover of darkness to retrieve the items. But I digress...
Yes, believe it: Todd Palin is interviewed in the May edition of Men's Journal (!?!) -- available at newsstands April 10, hot off the presses. No word yet as to whether he's featured on the cover, or in a centerfold, standing atop a "snow-machine" in all his manly glory, holding up a bloody dead moose carcass.
Under the headline Todd Palin: $150K on clothes 'out of our control', AP writes:
The husband of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says the Republican Party's lavish spending on her wardrobe during the presidential campaign was "out of our control." ... "You got people who are working on VP ops for a long time, and we're just focused on debate prep. I couldn't give a rat's (expletive) [read: ass] about clothes. Please. I mean these are my Sunday go-to-meeting jeans!"
...Some of the purchases included a $75,062 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, one for $49,425 from Saks Fifth Avenue and $4,902 at Atelier, a stylish men's store.
..."They [Secret Service detail during campaign] liked cruising around with me," he said, "because we went to the Arctic Cat snowmachine factory and then drove up to North Dakota, went to a Penn State-Michigan football game, went to a NASCAR race. Rough duty, hanging out with me."
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Mr. Palin seems to be rebuking people like me who thinks the Palins are a freak-show better suited to a VH-1 reality show that could be titled "Pallin' Around With The Palins" when he adds: "You got to remember, it's not like they just plucked us off the fishing boat with scales still under our nails."
Hmmm...That must have been at least a few hundred dollars on that $150,000 budget under the "Other Expenses" line for Manly Manicures of Minnesota's nail 'n' scale-removal services, huh, Todd? Classy, I tell ya. ClassE!
I hope to hear more (and more, and more) about this. Perhaps BRITCHES TO NOWHERE can become a monthly feature? Meanwhile, the current adult couple in the White House go about their business in a mature, intelligent, and effective manner. Back to you, Sarah.