OK, it’s time for someone to step up and say it: the blogosphere and mainstream media have made a charicature of themselves. I reported on the news that the Republican National Committee had spent $150,000 on clothes for Sarah Palin, but I only did so because I realized it was a new, fresh attack against the Governor of Alaska, and nothing more.

However, the story was picked up by mainstream media and bloggers, all writing about it as if it was something we should seriously debate. We shouldn’t. It’s a ludicrous subject, and all those pretend that it is serious stop stop being obsessed with what other people do, and should instead get a job, or a college degree, so they will have less time to gossip about what others may or may not do.

Since it has become a debate, I feel forced to explain why we should not even talk about it. I have compiled a comprehensive list of 10 reasons why the issue should not have become an issue:

1. The RNC got that money to campaign. Clothes and haircuts are all part of campaigning. Political candidates have to look good. Should they have spent $150,000 on clothes? I don’t know, I’m not a strategist, and neither are most of those who read this article and comment on it. Should that money have been spent on other things? Perhaps, I don’t know. I’m not a strategist. I do know, however, that the McCain campaign can spent whatever money on clothes it wants to; if it believes clothes to be of incredible importance, it should spend bigtime on it. Lord knows they spent much more on ads, rallies, and other necessities in campaigns.

2. We don’t know what the others spend on clothes. It could very well be that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have spent approximately the same amount of money on clothes in recent months. Why don’t we know? Because the mainstream media do not consider the subject important enough to investigate it. Which it isn’t.

3. You are all insane. It does not matter how much they spend on clothes, and how much money they do not spend on it. It’s irrelevant. Who cares. Their money. People gave money freely to the RNC, that’s it. Then you’ve got utter idiots saying it should ‘illegal’ to spend so much on clothes, thereby once again making clear that they’re not liberals, but authoritarians.

4. It’s a waste of time. Here we are, talking about how much money the RNC spent on clothes for Sarah Palin, and we’re not talking about little things such as, o, say, the upcoming international crisis as promised by Joe Biden.

5. Does Palin or doesn’t Palin look good? Right. Money well spent then.

6. You are all insane. It does not matter how much they spend on clothes, and how much money they do not spend on it. It’s irrelevant. Who cares. Their money. People gave money freely to the RNC, that’s it. Then you’ve got utter idiots saying it should ‘illegal’ to spend so much on clothes, thereby once again making clear that they’re not liberals, but authoritarians.

7. Looking good is of the highest importance for political candidates. Why do you think Obama ‘won’ every debate? Right. Because John McCain looked like a sad, nasty old man. Clothes are part of your image. In politics, image is everything. Good clothes cost money.

8. You are all insane. It does not matter how much they spend on clothes, and how much money they do not spend on it. It’s irrelevant. Who cares. Their money. People gave money freely to the RNC, that’s it. Then you’ve got utter idiots saying it should ‘illegal’ to spend so much on clothes, thereby once again making clear that they’re not liberals, but authoritarians.

9. Do you know how much it costs to use the ‘Chevy Suburbans the campaigns love to use to populate their motorcades’? Right. Three such gigantic cars = $150,000 (approximately). How in the world are these cars more important than the clothes they wear? If you talk about clothes, you suddenly have to talk about all expenses of campaigsn which is utterly, utterly useless.

10. You are all insane. It does not matter how much they spend on clothes, and how much money they do not spend on it. It’s irrelevant. Who cares. Their money. People gave money freely to the RNC, that’s it. Then you’ve got utter idiots saying it should ‘illegal’ to spend so much on clothes, thereby once again making clear that they’re not liberals, but authoritarians.