Whatever might be said about her husband's politics, Mrs. Dennis Kucinich has exquisitely crunchy tastes in clothes-shopping: she buys a lot at resale shops and thrift stores. I'm never prouder of my wife than when she brings out Baby Nora in some gorgeous piece of clothing, and I think, "Oh gawd, how much did that set me back?" -- and Julie says, "Got that for 50 cents at the Salvation Army -- isn't it beautiful?"
Mark Krikorian agrees that Mrs. K. is not to be mocked by conservatives in this, but applauded.
Mrs. Kucinich's wardrobe
Wednesday May 30, 2007
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Garland Road Trift Shop or Barney's? Who cares?
Whoops, forgot to give propos to JPod for his funny comment.
dbkenner, I am not grabbing stats from polarized thin air. I am quoting internally from when I was actually the sales director for the national specialty retailer company catering to the top 2% of earned income Americans. It was estimated that our studies showed that relatively few voted Democratic, and 93% were solidly GOP. And this was at the height of Bill Clinton's popularity, pre-Monica. These stats remain essentially unchanged as I am a consultant to the industry. Hollywood is one thing; the hinterlands another. Don't shoot the messenger, Dude. There's a heckuva lot of room between the millionaires behind gates my employer cater to and share croppers. This is simply not an argumant worth making. There are plenty of extravagant and wealthy Dems, certainly. But if thrifty anti-status-flash-moola was the GOP norm, Rod Dreher would not have had a subject for his book...in fact the anomaly antidisestablishment Republican who is appalled by overconsumption.
I was wrong about Kucinich's prior marriages. Sorry.
No problem, Connie. I apologize if I was a little snarky in my reply.
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