Unlike the rest of the paid McCain staffers, the makeup artist really earned her paycheck.

How much would she have charged to put lipstick on a pig?

Oh, yeah, I forgot, I should choose my words more carefully.

Fluff vs substance.

The McCainites should be miffed about the money differences.

They should have hired Ashley Todd for her fabulous make-up skills.

Equal pay for equal work! All McCain's staff are "makeup artists".

Snick, snicker, Bwaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaaaaaa!
It's the campaign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.

There is one difference. For a gig like this, a make-up artist would be charging by the day, not an hourly, or weekly rate. For an Emmy-nominated make-up artist to charge in the vicinity of $1600/day is not beyond the pale. She is a contractor, and as such will pay at least 1/3 in SSI and taxes herself.

To quote Reese Watson (Hal Holbrook) on Designing Women, "Nobody's that ugly."

Found This
http://www.cinemamakeup.com/gallery/newsletters/aug2006.htm

CMS graduate Amy Strozzi is currently Make-up Department Head for the hit Fox television show “So You Think You Can Dance�, along with being host Cat Deeleys’ personal make-up artist. She is also make-up artist for the WB tv series “Smallville� for its publicity photos. Congratulations to Amy on her achieving Local 706 Makeup Artist and Hairstylists Union membership!

And she probably is one of those elites who lives in a big city on the coast

This story tells you everything you need to know about the Republicans. Remember when Bush replaced Treas Sec Snow with Paulson. The reason - Snow wasn't putting a pretty enough face on the economy. They hired Armstrong Williams to make Bush education initiatives look good. They prepped retired generals to make the war look good. Now, once again, McCain has proven he's just like his mentor.

The campaign categorized Ms. Strozzi's payment as "PERSONNEL SVC/EQUIPMENT."

Hey, a reanimated, jigsaw-puzzle-type corpse* is a really high-maintenance kind of thing to have around---and putting lipstick on the Wasilla Frankenstein Monster is no exception.

*Fooled you, didn't I? Y'all thought I was talking about McCain---or maybe Bill-O's audience....

McCain dodged the Letterman show, got a “do over� on way to tell everyone he is going to make you rich. Sarah Palin in the same classic example hob knobs around Sax Fifth Avenue yet sounds her horn to be a “Red Neck�.

The whole thing reminds me of the Abbot and Costello scene where Abbot would yell out “MAKE UP� and this person flies out with a huge pillow of powder and smacks Costello in the face leaving him with a very funny and dubious look on his face like that is making up. POW and a big bellow cloud of white powder every where. So funny.

So, it costs, what, $45,000 a month [or roughly a half million a year!] to put lipstick on a pitbull.

Jeezuss!

Keep in mind, with just 11 days remaining, the McCain campaign is feeling a serious financial pinch. That the highest-paid member of the team is a makeup artist is rather hard to defend.

What's to defend? When your campaign is all special effects and no plot, that's exaclty what your monthly expenses should look like.

So John Edwards would have needed 57 haircuts in two weeks to match what this babe is paying out. Where's the outrage from the MSM and the Rove machine?

Hey, I'm an Obama supporter, but Nixon lost the 1960 election because of bad makeup. It doesn't seem that unreasonable to me to spend some money avoiding that mistake. It's a trivial amount compared to what's being spent on commercials, etc.

Actually, this is one of the few financial decisions the McCain campaign should be proud of.

Amy Stozzi is very, very good at her job - Emmy nominations don't get passed out on street corners. My wife (a costume and makeup designer herself) has a tremendous amount of professional respect for Ms. Stozzi and has used her work as inspiration on some of her own designs. While she certainly isn't cheap, the multitude of "little starbursts" comments from the likes of Rich Lowry suggest her work's continued to be top quality.

It's just another reality show. This one's called "So You Think You Can Be Vice-President?"

You know, back in the '30's MGM would hire really poor people as extras for their big musicals. They'd get the big "Emerald City" make up job and work for the day. They didn't want to take the fancy-schmancy make up off so they would just keep piling more on top of it to try and keep it up. After a couple weeks they were walking around looking pretty strange. That's where the concept for Bette Davis' make up in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? came from.

I'm hoping for something similar with Sarah once she gets back to alaska.

Lest we forget: McCain has self-righteously taken PUBLIC FUNDING for his campaign, so Palin's being painted like a trollop comes out of our pockets.

What a joke on us.

Can someone break it down to what they make an hour ?
Makeup artist might work, 4 hours a day, maybe, while staffers are probably working 16.

In all fairness, I would suspect the stylist probably has some large expenses. There is no limit on high end makeup and the utensils used to apply it.

Well, wait a second. Let's consider this campaign: there's no clear message, even McCain has contradicted his own campaign, Sarah's been galactically underprepared, attacks have been frivolous and bizarre and have failed to resonate, a media-friendly candidate managed to alienate the press, political stunts were transparent, positions were unpopular. It's been a disaster.

Meanwhile, Sarah has looked impeccable at every appearance.

I'd say the makeup artist definitely deserves the highest salary.

Can anybody tell me how I can get me some of that small town, home spun? Jeebus, that'd really stretch these here coupons out a while. Sheeit, livin' here in real 'merca kinda sucks 'pared with livin' high on the campaign trailer.

At that rate, it would be over $500,000 a year.

Maybe Amy the Stylist and Joe the Plumber can meet up and start their own business "Lipsticks & Dipsticks R Us".

(MissMudd you're right on!).

And yet, Obama is the elitist, celebrity.

Okaaaay.

To hell with the wardrobe, this should piss people off. She can't do her own makeup? She is no pitbull!

Yes, TBone, I'm sure she CAN do her own makeup, but the point is that she shouldn't have to. After all, she's A PWINCESS!!

Big meanie.

This seals it, then: Palin's next gig will be as a contestent on "Dancing with the Stars."

But who'd dance w/her?
-Z

The elites can only dream of someday having the makeup and wardrobe budgets that the common folk like Palin have.

Does the Palin makeup expense compare with Cindy McCain's?