I was pretty sure I made the distinction in my post between spending one's own money and spending money someone gave you with stipulations on where you can spend it...ah yes, right here:
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I can't think of anything more upwardly, white woman mobile than taking a blank check and buying some fancy clothes and makeup...so I can't imagine bashing her for doing what any middle class person would do in a similar situation if they didn't have the option to pay their bills with the same check.
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so it sounds like you agree with the gist of what I said, that it's perfectly normal for women to spend shittons of money on luxuries, but that you would spend 150K on a house...which I'm pretty certain the RNC wasn't indicating was in the cards.
maybe you'd only buy $20 mascara if the RNC handed you a blank check for 150K and told you to get some new clothes at Sak's and then give them 147,000 back unspent, but that would be weird. I certainly would respect you for doing that, but I wouldn't knock you for spending it either.
yeah, roachboy, I agree with you on the theoretical points, I'm just saying that any argument she's over the top in this respect isn't going to gain any traction from people who aren't already there.
right now, it's the feature story on hardball, which I find even more ridiculous than the fact that it happened. I guess that's my point. If Chris Matthews had you on there, roachboy, and you guys were hammering out this interesting branding discussion...well then that'd be different than talking about it as a problem in and of itself
