I am very often an admirer of David Frum, even when I disagree with him, but I must take issue with his latest post, in which he declares, “The median monthly mortgage payment in the US in 2007 was about $1500. In other words, Sarah Palin spent very nearly as much on clothing in a single month as the typical American family will spend on housing over the next ten years.”

In other words, the median monthly mortgage payment in the US in 2007 was the cost of one of Obama’s suits.

Beyond that, his math is off. At $1,500 a month, a family spends $18,000 per year on their mortgage. They would equal the RNC’s spending on Palin’s wardrobe, hair styling, makeup and other “campaign accessories” in 8.34 years; in ten years that family would spend $180,000. I guess it depends on whether you see $150,000 as “very nearly” $180,000.

The whole wardrobe is going to charity, anyway.