Speaking to reporters from several news organizations, including the Anchorage Daily News, the Sarah Palin defended herself from a slew of criticisms that have been aimed at her from unnamed McCain aides.

The Alaska governor, having resumed work at her office in Anchorage on Friday, called her critics “jerks”, and said it was “immature” and “cowardly” for McCain staffers to be making sly allegations about her.

Washington, Nov 8: Senator John McCain’s top two aides during the presidential campaign have denied the anonymous accusations circulating in the press about his running mate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

“The towel story categorically is not true,” The Washington Times quoted Steve Schmidt, top former McCain campaign aide, as saying.

Washington, Nov 8: Alaska Governor and John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin’s spokesperson has blasted the wave of anonymous post-election criticism coming from some members of McCain’s campaign team.

Palin’s allies are pushing back against a stream of accusations leaking out of John McCain’s campaign, and the Alaska Governor herself has called her critics “cowardly.”

Palin insisted that she never asked for the expensive wardrobe purchased for her use on the presidential campaign, Fox News reported.

“I never asked for anything more than a Diet Dr. Pepper once in a while,” Palin said as she returned to the Governor’s office.

New York, Nov 8: A longtime aide of John McCain’s vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has bashed critics claiming that the Alaska governor was unfairly being made a scapegoat for the Republican campaign’s missteps.

Meg Stapleton gave a piece of her mind to anonymous critics inside the now defunct McCain-Palin team, claiming that they were inappropriately using Palin’s infamous 150,000 dollars shopping spree to cover up their misdeeds.

Even though reports of agitation between the McCain and Palin camps bubbled up in the final weeks of the campaign, as Barack Obama began pulling away and the GOP duo was unable to regain the momentum, when the defeated team of McCain and Palin split up in Arizona on Wednesday, the personal differences were starkly visible.  

Melbourne, Nov 7: The attacks on Sarah Palin are set to intensify as the full story about the Alaska governor’s 150,000 dollar clothes shopping spree has emerged.

The defeated Republican vice-presidential nominee came under fire last month after it was revealed the Republican Party had spent about 150,000 dollars on designer clothes for her and her family, reports the Australian.

But now, Newsweek magazine has reported the shopping was far more extensive than was previously revealed.