I Feel Pretty

Jeez, they all do it. If you're going to play the political game you're going to pay for image consultants, makeup artists, hair people, you name it. Execrable MSM stories seem to concentrate on John Edwards though with his expensive haircuts and trained barking seals like Coulter and Limbaugh pile on with their not-so-veiled homo comments.

Safe to say those quick to trash talk about Edwards won't touch the revelations about Mitt Romney's face paint:

"What kinds of things do you think of when you hear "communications consulting"? Speechwriting? Message strategy?
Well, "communications consulting" is how presidential candidate Mitt Romney recorded $300 in payments to a California company that describes itself as "a mobile beauty team for hair, makeup and men's grooming and spa services."
Romney spokesman Kevin Madden confirmed that the payments -- actually two separate $150 charges -- were for makeup, though he said the former Massachusetts governor had only one session with Hidden Beauty of West Hills, Calif. That was before the May 3 Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., co-sponsored by MSNBC and The Politico.
"We used them once but booked time twice and still had to render payment for the appointment time," said Madden, who said the disbursement was listed as "communications consulting" because it was paid from the communications division's budget."

This stuff truly doesn't matter - it's gutter politics where simplistic brownshirt types wallow and play - Limbacile loves his "Breck Girl" character smear of Edwards to the point of it clearly being another of those classic repug projection moments. But it's at least fair to point out that all politicos primp and get fluffed for public exposure since at least when Nixon refused makeup back in 1960.