Continuing on the diva meme, it appears the diva’s wardrobe was not the only piece of the governor’s ego that was left in Alaska. Her tanning bed was also sacrificed in John’s rush to nominate the folksy "hockey mom" as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republicans. That’s right, lost in the numbers (150K) of the September FEC filing of the RNC was expenses totaling $1,170 to an individual named Tracy Thorp, who according to her Myspace page runs a company called Tans-n-Lashes by Tracy. Her specialty is, of course, spray on tans, especially the Eskimo tan (seen below).
[Obviously Photoshoped, but funny!]
Tracy’s connection to the McPalin campaign seems to be geographically crony. She lives in Southern California just a spray tans’ mist from where Cindy McCain gets her hair did by McCain’s highest paid staffer, Amy Strozzi. Of course, as the diva demands the diva gets! Thus, the Republican beauty squad of aides flew Tracey the spray tanner to Minneapolis to delicately apply a coat of the toner to mask the lack of substance.
Yesterday, Palin began pushing back on her being cast as a diva, by her own campaign, by postulating that the clothes were not hers, not her idea or simply on loan. However, that position coming from the mouth of someone who had a tanning bed installed in her mansion before she or her family were even settled in is undercut by this diva like treatment- an $1,100 expense for a spray tan.
Surely, there are qualified Eskimo tanners in the Minneapolis area, no?
**The damage is done, I know. But we can still have some fun!**