America’s got a fee-vah and the only prescription is more Palin merchandise

posted at 5:58 pm on September 5, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Alternative headline: Lucrative new natural resource discovered in Alaska.

Call it “Palin-mania.”

Companies are cashing in on a new craze sweeping the country sparked by the sudden fame of John McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.

The new cottage industry involves anything carrying her name…

From t-shirts to thong underwear, from the flattering to the not-so-flattering, sales of just about everything related to the McCain-Palin ticket have been flying off shelves, at the just-concluded GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn., on the Internet, and other settings, Blackstone says…

Pain’s leap to fame is also benefiting such Web sites as CafePress.com, which now has an inventory of 137,000 Palin-related items.

5,950 designs to choose from, and naturally Karol’s still not satisfied. Why Maverick’s campaign and the RNC aren’t doing more to make a buck off this, I’ll never know: The McCain store has only standard Mc/P items and the RNC is stuck with generic party crap. I get that they don’t want number two to upstage the nominee, but they can fig-leaf that by offering separate items for both McCain and Palin; the latter will outsell the former two or three to one, but only the RNC will know and after all a buck’s a buck. Exit question: Should Hot Air hop on this gravy train? I’ve been known to do a photoshop or two in my time so designing them is no great shakes. It’s all a question of what you guys are looking for — and of course copyright limitations, which is why designs with images in them, as opposed to just slogans, are dicey. Treacher’s off on the right foot. If you have ideas, chime in below.

Update: I stand corrected. Looks like there is some official Palin merchandise after all.

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