Campbell Brown said the same thing, and I disagree with her. It's important because the money came from campaign donations. Cindy McCain's Oscar de la Renta dresses probably cost five times as much as one of Palin's designer suits, but she paid for them out of her own pocket. Same goes for McCain's Italian loafers and Obama's expensive suits. In a time of financial crisis, it was extraordinarily bad PR and the campaign should never have allowed the story to break like that.