If you can't get your spending priorities straight during your campaign, how can you be expected to get them straight when you're running the country?

A report in MSNBC has revealed that Palin's stylist was paid more than McCain's foreign policy adviser!

Amy Strozzi, who works on the reality show "So You Think You Can Dance" and has been Palin's traveling stylist, was paid $22,800, according to campaign finance reports for the first two weeks in October. In contrast, McCain's foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed.

I guess it costs a lot of money to put lipstick on a hockey mom, eh? 

But then again, the stylist getting paid more than the foreign policy wonk shows just how close the McCain camp is to playing things the same way that Bush's crowd did.  Hey, we got ourselves the best war that money can by based on high quality advice. 

So, to summarize today's lesson:

• You can spend a lot of money on flash and get a pretty picture.
• You can spend a little money on intelligence and get a nasty war.

Caveat emptor, me lads...