McCain-Palin in their version of reality.

Never underestimate the Republican Leadership. A few weeks ago when Colin Powell too seemed outraged by his party’s new campaign motto of ‘pile on the slander’, I was convinced that McCain-Palin campaign had just hit rock bottom. The $150,000 makeover to make Palin more ‘relatable’ to all the hockey moms of America, is by far more ridiculous. I forget if I’m watching America’s Next Top Model or the Vice-Presidential Nominee for what used to be the most powerful country in the world.
I used to think the Republican campaign of being the ‘common Joe’ president was laughable. Then I saw the pictures of the masses of people who actually bought into it and wanted their next president to be ‘just-like-them.’ The McCains own 13 cars, eight homes and access to a corporate jet. At the convention, Cindy McCain was dressed in over $300,000 in jewelry alone. How out of touch with reality do you have to be, to think that $2,500 Valentino jackets will make you more relatable? More relatable to billionaire Joe Lewis maybe, not ‘Joe the Plumber’! The only thing average about McCain-Palin campaign is the level of intelligence, quality and foresight it has shown.
In this very volatile economy, I for one don’t want a President who thinks $2,500 is spare change. I definitely don’t want an average Joe dictating the economic health of the country for the next four years. I don’t want an average Joe in awe of Putin and Sarkozy, but someone who can match their intelligence and repair the damaged US foreign policy. In my ideal world, an average Joe would never be President. We deserve better than that.

Ref: Maureen Dowd, A Makeover With An Ugly Gloss