Did I say "big girl panties? Guess these ladies didn't hear me. Rather than looking to see what is in the best interests of women, they're now going to raise money for McCain, a civil rights luddite (who called his wife a "trollop" and a "cunt" during a news junkit and fought against recognition of the MLK holiday nationally and in his home state). Makes sense to me.

Like I said before, I'd like to find those Black Democrats who, angered by an Obama loss, would have supported McCain. I'm sure they exist (like water on Mars). Years ago, angered by the Dixiecrat Dems who long fought against civil rights and human decency (and were leaders in the KKK), groups of Blacks left for the Republican Party. They weren't angry that a candidate lost or found that the Republicans espoused their point of view more powerfully: They were infuriated by the immoral antics of white Democrats who fought to keep American apartheid in place and moved out of spite. Now, however, having missed the fact that the Dixiecrats left for the GOP along with them all those years ago, they still put up disappointment-fueled pieces for television and radio. Here's some.

We need to take a page from the Reagan playbook and save our future political campaign ire for Republican policies rather than personally attacks against each other. The bad blook that Senator Clinton's campaign has engendered will be the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks, Hill.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and senior adviser to Sen. John McCain, met with a group of 25 prominent supporters and fundraisers for Sen. Hillary Clinton at a private home in Westchester County, NY. The group included several so-called "Hillraisers," each of whom have raised in excess of $100,000 for Clinton's failed primary campaign. The meeting was repeatedly sought by the Hillary supporters and is at least the second such meeting between backers of Clinton and the McCain campaign.

An organizer of the meeting, Amy Siskind, said that the pro-Hillary groups represented pledged to help deliver, "hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of votes," to McCain if the groups find areas of agreement between themselves and his campaign.

News of the meeting will not be comforting to the campaign of Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama, who has been trying to close ranks behind his campaign after a contentious primary season. Clinton has endorsed Obama and has made fund raising and campaign appearances with him. She has also asked her supporters to get behind Obama's campaign. Still, polls show that Obama could lose a portion of Clinton's support in the general election, and the McCain campaign has been trying to exploit the differences between Obama and Clinton's supporters.

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