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McCain Loses One More Fundraiser, But There's A But
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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.
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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