Georgette Mosbacher, an early supporter of Sen. John McCain and a top Republican fundraiser, has decided to raise money for another candidate: Sen. Fred Thompson. 
Mosbacher, the CEO of Borghese, a cosmetic company, was a national chair of McCain's first presidential campaign.
But there's a pretty good reason she's decided to move on: Mosbacher is one of Thompson's closest friends and was, in the 1990s, his date.
Mosbacher is enough of a Republican luminary to be able to get away with raising money for both McCain and Thompson, although McCain's campaign expects her to devote most of her efforts in the future to Thompson.
So far, as noted below, only two McCain fundraisers have left to join Thompson's campaign, despite an aggressive lobbying effort to convince McCain donors like Fred Malek and Fed-Ex CEO Fred Smith to change sides.
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Each of us, in our search for meaning in life, has a vast amount of experience to draw upon. Our struggles and hardship, along with our achievements and blessings, teach us life’s lessons. Your experience, your strength and the hope that endures are part of your unique story — and part of the reason why you should tell your life story.
The second primary reason to tell your life story is to leave your mark. We all want to be remembered. Certainly we want to be remembered for the good we've done and for the significant accomplishments in our lives. There is satisfaction in a life well-lived. Living a life fully... richly experiencing what it means to be alive and involved in helping others is a great thing. To share with others who you are, what you are about and what you believe in is passing on some very valuable personal history.
Posted by Maria Sanches | July 18, 2007 6:30 PM