McCain's "Edwards Problem" -- Times 100

by: huntsu

Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 01:42:15 PM EDT

Remember a few years back when John Edwards billed a haircut to the campaign for $400 and it became international news, covered breathlessly for days and weeks and became fodder for every weak comedian who couldn't come up with clever material?  That's the kind of problem I mean, and it took US Magazine to figure it out:

The 72-year-old was recently made TV-ready by makeup artist Tifanie White who's worked on So You Think You Can Dance and American Idol.

McCain paid the 2002 beauty-school grad $5,583.43 for her services, according to the Federal Election Commission.

So we can expect, I am sure, to see Fox News skewer McCain for his vanity and for wasting his donors' money for his beauty treatment?  MSNBC will spend hours scouring the parlors of Alaska to find out what it REALLY costs to be made beautiful?  I mean, that's 10 times what it cost Edwards and they started calling him "Breck Girl".

Here's what it cost to get McCain made up all doll-like: 2.4 maxed out donors at $2300 a pop.

That's right, somewhere in a very American small town there is a morally upright family whose husband and wife both maxed out to the general campaign to help John McCain get elected, and then even threw in an extra $900 plus from their 18 year old daughter who is waiting virginaly for her hockey-player beau to pop the question.

They may go without heat some warm days in February this year, eat margarine instead of butter, and have to put Fido down instead of get that life-saving ear surgery, but it was worth it so they could donate money to John McCain so he could get all purty to go on TV.