What do you do with at $57,000 jacket?
Quick quiz:
You've just spent $57,000 to buy the jacket Sarah Palin wore on the cover of "Goin' Rouge". What do you do with it?
A: Give to your wife as a Christmas present
B: Resell it
C: Put it in an unused bathroom
D: Hermetically seal it and keep it at Iron Mountain
The answer is, of course, C. Which is pretty hilarious.
To hear the teabaggers speak of Palin, you'd think that owning her jacket might come close to owning an artifact of some saint - like one of Mother Theresa's ovararies. But, instead, motivational speaker and xtain, John G. Miller, spent $57,000 to throw it in an unused bathroom.
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Hardly a place of honor or respect. In fact, as Miller points out, "I hope that someone doesn't wash their face and dry it on the jacket!"
Let's make sure we understand the set up - John G. Miller, father of seven kids, spent $57,000 to buy Sarah Palin's jacket. It fits his wife "perfectly" but she won't wear it. Maybe she doesn't like red. Who knows? Either way, it's taken out of commission as something useful. It's been robbed of its purpose. It's not even special enough to take care of. Instead, it hangs silently in a bathroom, something to take a look at while you're shitting out today's lunch. Even a book of bathroom jokes conveys more utility on the owner than Sarah Palin's jacket. He doesn't even care enough about it to put it on display in the living room when his wingnut friends come over to pray for God's removal of Obama from office.
"Hey! What's that?!"
"Sarah Palin's jacket. The one she wore on the cover of "Goin' Rouge."
"Wow! That's really inspiring!"
"She's got such great ideas and I really admire her"
The jacket, like the teabaggers, exists as, literally, an empty suit. It's not useful. It contributes nothing. It means nothing. It doesn't show devotion to the cause. Instead, like those who ponied up $400-700 just to show up at the "convention" it simply says "I'm rich enough to be part of a grassroots movement of 'ordinary' people."
It's placement in the bathroom says the jacket means shit.