So let me see if I have this right. When it came out that John Edwards was paying $400 for his haircuts, that told us everything we had to know about him being vain or vapid or phony or out of touch with America or something. Whatever it told us, it was pretty derogatory about Edwards.
But the folks who said that didn't care that John McCain usually wears $600 shoes or that Cindy McCain has worn gowns (including one dress at the G.O.P. convention) that cost over $100,000…and they're not going to care that the Republican National Committee has coughed up more than $150,000 to clothe and coif Sarah Palin. That kind of spending says nothing about the person wearing all the money. Right?
I actually don't think it does about the McCains and Palin and it didn't about Edwards. And I'm really sick of that mode of politics where if your opponent eats an almond, you have to immediately issue talking points about how the eating of almonds proves someone is unfit for public office.