Palin "absolutely appalled" at spending

Reports today's New York Times:

Three Palin Stylists Cost Campaign More Than $165,000

Hair: $42,615 (or 107 John Edwards 'dos over 60 days)
Makeup: $68,400 (or 2,909 Clarins 'Joli Rouge' and 1 pit bull)
Advice: $54,900 (or 9,563,000 cubic feet of natural gas)

Equivalent to what a Hollywood studio might invest in preparing an A-list actress for a movie premiere or publicity campaign, other stylists said.

All this courtesy of the presidential campaign which famously portrayed Barack Obama as akin to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

Quipped the plain ol' hockey mom's spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton, "She does not know who benefited from all the expenditures reported."

Supposedly GOP donors but Democrats mostly, you betcha.