Republicans Supporting Hillary?

Special Care for Big Clinton Donors

By Chris Cillizza and Dan Balz
Monday, February 20, 2006; Page A06

Big-dollar political donors are like exotic animals -- both require near-constant attention and delicate treatment from their handlers.

No politician knows this better than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who -- along with her husband -- has perfected the care and feeding of major contributors.

Witness a series of meetings last week of Clinton's national finance team, the diverse group of donors raising cash for her reelection race this November.

The gathering took place at the Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington last Wednesday, culminating in a dinner at the Georgetown home of Smith and Elizabeth Bagley -- two of the heaviest financial hitters in the party. More than 100 people attended; most were the usual suspects in the Bill and Hillary universe, including Esprit clothing company founder Susie Tompkins Buell and California investment banker John Emerson.

But there were a few surprises among the guests: Texas lawyer Fred Baron, who was the national finance chairman of the 2004 presidential bid of then-North Carolina Sen. John Edwards; Alan Solomont, a major cog in Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry's financial network during his run for the presidency; and Joyce Aboussie, the major-domo of the political universe for former representative Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.).

Who'd of thought that all of these Republicans would be supporting Hillary...what's that, they're not Republicans they're Democrats? But, but they're rich, they must be Republicans. We all know that only Republicans are rich. You mean it's not true that all rich people are Republicans? Their are more rich Democrats than Republicans? What? Nine of the ten richest members of Congress are Democrats, not Republicans? How can that be? We have always been told that the Republican party was the party of the rich and the Democrat party was the party of the working man. Now you're telling me that Democrats are rich? Say it ain't so.

Well, there goes another Liberal lie down the toilet. Funny the MSM never tell the facts about this. The truth is that Republican candidates get far more of their campaign money from small contributers than they do from wealthy contributers, and it's just the opposite with Democrats. That's why people like George Soros have so much influence with the Democrat Party.

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