Sarah Palin is a Female Version of a Hustla

And the money just keeps piling up.

At this point, does anyone actually know the cost, in toto, of Sarah Palin's aesthetics to the RNC?

According to the New York Times, there's the initial $150,000 for clothes from Saks and Needless Markup, another $165,000 for hair and makeup, plus another $23,000 worth of new receipts for crap the RNC is still tabulating.

Which so far totals $338,000 just for the way this woman looks.

You know, I must have had it wrong, somewhere along the way.

I thought the whole point of being the "Hottest Governor From the Coldest State" (can you feel them? can you feel my eyes rolling in unison with yours in disgust?) was that you didn't need to pay anyone all the money to make you look good because it's already built in.

You know, like those five-in-one-use pasta cookers?

Yeah, evidently not.

I swear, if Talking Points Barbie somehow develops a convincing patina of intelligence strong enough to wipe away the memory of that horrid, insipid, make-me-wish-we-didn't-both-have-ovaries Katie Couric interview, and actually becomes the Republican nominee for president in 2012, I will shoot myself in the head.

Note to Palin: "What newspapers do you read every day?" is not a gotcha question unless you don't fucking read.

Please drill it baby drill into your head that Africa is a continent, not a country, and that in order to be president of the United State of America, you must be smarter than a fifth grader.

That is all.