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FirmhandKY -> A McCain/Clinton Ticket? (7/18/2008 6:22:22 AM)
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McCain Surrogate Fiorina Meets With Clinton Supporters
July 16, 2008, 6:04 pm
The McCain campaign dispatched its top female surrogate Tuesday to meet with about 25 disaffected supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton in Westchester, N.Y.
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Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a top adviser to Republican Sen. John McCain, met with the former Clinton backers at a private home for more than an hour and a half. Fiorina said in an interview that over glasses of iced tea and finger food, she fielded questions from Democratic women she described as “intensely uncomfortable with the notion of a President Obama.’’
The Westchester meeting came at the behest of former Clinton supporters, some of whom have said – adamantly – that they won’t support Obama. Polls show Obama winning the majority of support from women voters while about a quarter of ex-Clinton supporters are leaning toward McCain. The meeting wasn’t stocked with typical voters, however. These were prominent activists and fund-raisers, including several known as “Hillraisers,’’ who raised more than $100,000 for Clinton during the primary season. “I didn’t ask how many of them were Hillraisers but certainly a number of them were,’’ Fiorina said.
Nor, Fiorina said, did she ask the women whether Clinton knew they had arranged the meeting with her. Clinton has endorsed Obama and urged her supporters to help defeat McCain.
Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive who helped organize the meeting, declined to identify most the attendees, citing their desire for privacy. She said that some of the recently formed pro-Hillary organizations that have been critical of Sen. Obama–such as Together4Us.com, which officially hosted the event, and JustSayNoDeal.com had representatives there. Together4Us.com lists its founders as Jill Iscol, Lady Lynn de Rothschild, Gretchen Glasscock, “and 50 more to be added very soon.”
Fiorina and participants said the town-hall style meeting covered a variety of issues, from health care to foreign policy to workplace rights.
Interesting article that gives loads of discussion points.
The thought that crossed my mind is that of a McCain/Hillary ticket.
Personally, I think they are pretty close on a lot of the issues, and would be hard to beat.
Such a ticket could be "sold" as a great show of "bi-partisanship", but the thought that occurs to me is that it would just prove that the current top levels of both parties are pretty indistinguishable.
Another issue is that I still think everyone is counting Hillary out a little too early. While I don't expect it, I would not be surprised at a Hillary putsch during the Democratic Convention, either.
Ahh, to be living in interesting political times ...
Firm
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