Shades of  Lee Atwater peeing in front of an Esquire reporter, or LBJ taking meetings on the toilet–only more girly!

According to Newsweek, at the GOP convention in St. Paul,  McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt and speechwriter Mark Salter arrived for briefing  with Sarah Palin at her hotel room.  Gov GILF sailed in fresh from the shower, wrapped in a towel with another wrapped around her wet hair.  "I’ll be just a minute," she said, and suggested they chat with the First Dude while she attended to her toilette.

The Newsweek also article goes into what one angry McCain aide calls "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast."  Palin had been instructed by Nicolle Wallace to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist.  But that wasn’t good enough for Caribou Barbie:

The vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost.

And it’s so hard to donate "lost" clothing to charity…

A Palin spokeshole doesn’t want the media kicking the lipstick wearing pitbull, especially now that she’s lost:

Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than they do about Governor Palin.