Tell all your kids they shouldn't give up on trying to get into Harvard because it's not as easy as it looks being a GOP VP candidate. Pudd'nhead has to work on her gig harder than anyone knows, and all those years preping for cut-throat beauty pageants are finally paying dividends. In addition to spending hours getting her head filled with talkingpoints, folksy soundbites, and treacle, Pudd'nhead also has to put up with expensive (industrial-level) makeup sessions.

The Washington Post reported today that during the month of September, Pudd'nhead spent $13,200 on hairdos, lipstick and facepowder (that's an average of $440 per day; no idea how many hours that represents, nor how much for labor and how much for Bondo and other materials)

Pudd'nhead Palin without her makeup


Ironically, Pudd'nhead paid her personal markup-artist nearly four times as much as what Joe the Unlicensed Plumber made last month -- $13,200 versus $3,333 (assuming Joe was able to work all of last month and that his reported $40K per year salary is correct).

(Unfortunately, I can't actually make any snarky comments (yet) about how many millions of dollars Pudd'nhead has spent on lawyers (or guns) who've helped Pudd'nhead evade answering questions from the Alaska legislature and Branchflower about whether Pudd'nhead unethically tried to fire her former brother-in-law (Trooper Mike Wooten). Because, as far as I know, no reporters have yet dug up the expense reports for Pudd'nhead's personal propaganda squad, Ed O'Callaghan and Meghan Stapleton, who've been fighting for Pudd'nhead on the home front)