You can go to Wal*Mart and get a month's worth of professional looking outfits for under 10,000, so it's not a question of "She would have been made fun of" or anything like that, it's the gross contradiction of someone running as the average person who's been abducted from her hockey mom duties (she's been a politician for what, a decade? She's no longer anything close to a regular person anymore) to run for vice-president spends 150,000 of her party's money to feel like a rock star.

If I were a Republican donor, I'd be pissed. Really.