Okay, okay. You people can stop assuming I want to jump all over Paul Ryan. Look, the Tumblr. It’s funny. And he’s not a bad looking dude. But I have a husband that I just bought a house with and our marriage is totally surviving a kitchen remodel so I’m not giving this keeper up, and the Paul Ryan is married to a gorgeous tall, blond woman who gave him three ridiculously adorable kids, and who obviously knows how to look like she spent the entire Medicaid budget while actually shopping from a discount retailer’s sale rack.
Yesterday, at Paul’s homecoming rally, his wife Janna sported a pricey-looking, figure flattering wrap dress with a floral print. The dress, by designer Dana Buchman, sells for $70 at Kohls, but is currently on sale for a mere $35.
Sporting a $70 Dana Buchman dress (now on discount at Kohl’s for $35), the newest addition to the campaign wives’ club commanded attention not for her bold pink floral print but for her fashion frugality…
Ryan’s low-cost (and machine washable!) outfit choice knocks a few zeros off some of the designer digs her fellow Republican ticket wife Ann Romney has been spotting in. Romney made waves in May after wearing a silk Reed Krakoff blouse that retails for $990 during an interview on morning television.
ABC News goes on to recount Michelle Obama’s high-fashion, high-ticket forays as well, noting her $2K vacation sundress, though attacks on her are rare, partly because she’s Michelle Obama and partly because the clothes usually look more like they were purchased off the rack at TJMaxx. Ann Romney’s Giant Bird Shirt, which cost $990, looked expensive. Not that there’s anything wrong with buying clothes off the rack at TJMaxx. It’s the max for the minimum.
But I’m just saying here’s Janna Ryan looking like she paid a lot for a dress you won’t ruin in the spin cycle, and here’s Michelle Obama looking like she pulled something out of the 1990s dollar bargain bin and paying $500 for it. That dress right there? A Tracy Reese that started life at $525. Like Janna, Michelle O probably purchased the dress on sale – and you can, too – for a cool $210, which is only the cost of a doctor’s visit or two weeks of groceries.
And Andrea Mitchell is still 100% convinced that, despite not knowing any actual suburban women with children, that Paul Ryan was somehow “not the pick for women?” Right. Of course, in Andrea’s mind, Paul Ryan is riding a bicycle in from the 1950s wearing a Don Draper suit and holding enough shackles to chain the entire board of NOW to pre-heating kitchen appliances by their ankles, with packs of birth control hanging from the ceiling just beyond their reach. As fun as that would be, Andrea lives in a dream world. Which probably includes $500 sundresses.
The Obamas have money, but schlock taste. That can sometimes lead to unfortunate results. Did you see the artwork they decorated the White House with? It was basically “whatever’s in vogue among the right set, right now,” meaning, “We have no taste of our own.”
The Obamas are what are known as social climbers. Neither of them came from a wealthy background.
What is fascinating is how Mr. Obama criticized Americans in a speech in Kansas for breathtaking greed while his wife has been decked out in expensive clothing that few American can afford—–showing her breath taking greed. .
They are not wealthy——if they ever arrive into being truly wealthy Michelle and Hussein Obama will recognize that the wealthy don’t flaunt their wealth. with the clothes and, the fashions they wear.
Those are only outward symbols. The true wealth comes from within and is not measured by the clothing one wears.
yeah…….you can put a $2,000 dollar dress on a gorilla and still look like a gorilla
Because it’s all about the clothes and how they shop right? Women don’t care about policy or legislation…this article is a joke and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Actually, it’s about image and presentation. In a poor economy, how candidates present themselves, in comparison to their potential constituents, has a remarkable impact…and it goes far in showing trustworthiness. Janna Ryan, whose husband is running in a ticket that claims to understand and want to rectify the economies downward slope, is dressed for the correct image: a suburban mother with children who understands the hardships the same face. Michelle Obama, however, has continually stressed the need for “sacrifice” and “shared prosperity” as if those were the solution to an economic downturn, and yet dresses as though she has no intention of sharing the sacrifice herself. The impact is hypocritical. So you see, it’s not just “what women care about” – you made that assumption about women, not me – but an analysis of the job these two women are doing at reinforcing their respective campaign’s overall message.
I’m not sure $210 even covers two weeks of groceries anymore, although it still could come close.
Malinda, Obama’s mom Stanley may not have been financially well off herself, but I would consider going to a private school in Hawaii pretty privileged. That, and having the leisure to hang out and smoke marijuana instead of getting a part-time job.
I’m in a happy marriage of almost twenty years myself, and ice fishing is not my idea of a dream date, so I’m not interested in Paul Ryan either, but those roots say she’s not blond. Call me catty if you like.
No Mary, the shame is that MObama blatantly and lavishly spends money while her husband’s government is creating TRILLION dollar debt for the USA and has been unable to pass a single budget during his term as president. That’s shameful.