Coronation

Coronation

Baroness Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild (she doesn’t choose to use her titles in this context, but still) has decided, despite conpicuous lack of support from her putative candidate, to endorse McCain because the Democratic candidate is an elitist.

Forester was a major donor for Clinton earning her the title as a Hillraiser for helping to raise at least $100,000 for the New York Democratic senator’s failed presidential bid.

In an interview with CNN this summer, Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

“This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.

To that, I can only oppose the view of Hillary supporter Baroness Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who shared this

On why she’s voting for Hillary: "I think if history is our guide, we’ve had stronger economies, more wealth creation, under Democratic presidents than we have under Republican presidents."

Now, this new Lady Lynn (a close personal friend of proletariat icon Conrad Black) is clearly a woman who knows the darkened corners where the elite are to be found:

Today the New Jersey-born Lady de Rothschild—the flashiest hostess in London—is mates with Tony and Cherie Blair, among other topflight Britons. She’s also mistress of the former John Singer Sargent home in Chelsea and of Ascott House, the 3,200-acre Rothschild family estate in Buckinghamshire, and the chief executive of E.L. Rothschild, the holding company that she owns with her third husband to manage investments in the Economist and various enterprises in India. Those include FieldFresh, a startup that will grow and export Indian fruits and vegetables for markets in Europe and Asia, and a soon-to-be-announced retail venture aimed at the exploding Indian middle class.

In July, Sir Evelyn completed the sale of his stake in the centuries-old English branch of the Rothschild banking empire (for a reported $600 million)—which frees up a lot of capital for them to be major players in the Indian business world.

Lest we forget, a month or two ago the spotlight aggrieved Hillary supporter was a lady named Susie Tompkins Buell.

Susie Tompkins Buell has this to say:*

On June 7th, my heart was broken. The candidate of my lifetime and my dear friend Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her historic Presidential campaign.

Over the past two months I have become the poster-child, in the press, for the so-called Hillary holdouts; Hillary Clinton supporters who were angry and frustrated with the way she was treated in the primary and post-primary and weren’t ready for unity. I was frustrated at the incredible amount of misogyny in our political process and in our media. And I was embarrassed that my party, and its leadership, never came to her defense when she faced a barrage of attacks based on her gender.

I still bear some wounds, but I’ve thought long and hard about the issues I support and that I believe in and Hillary has led me to understand that Senator McCain supports little of what I champion.

The turning point for me was the Democratic Convention in Denver this week. I saw how Hillary was treated by the Obama campaign and his supporters and I saw how President Clinton was greeted as a hero in our party and our country.

This was not an easy decision, not because I dislike Senator Obama or think he’s not a good public servant, but because I so strongly believed that Hillary was the stronger candidate.

…

Senator Obama has done the right thing; he has honored her and her policies in the way they deserve to be honored. Do I wish she were at least Vice-President? Absolutely, but that’s water under the bridge. We live in dark times and we need the kind of leadership that can take on our problems head-on and I know Senators Obama and Biden will do just that. So I hope everyone will join me and Hillary in saying, NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN.***

So, in closing: of the spotlight zillionaire hillraisers, some support McCain, and the others live here.

Just, you know, saying.

*described by former Washington Post people you should give a shit about because they have money columnist Lloyd Grove in an interview as "the sparkly blond ex-wife of former New York politician Andrew Stein**… She was also sexy, charming, and dazzlingly well connected" [Baron de Rothschild, on the other hand, was, less glamorously, married at the time]

**not, WADR, a man who demands perfect progressive credentials from a romantic partner

***If you want to reward the lady for doing the right thing, she’s formed a group called womencount.org (and after all, we do) so go take a look. No, usual suspects, it’s not an anti-Obama site. Sheesh.