Quislings Everywhere

Lynn Forester De Rothschild wants to take her ball and go home. The former Hillary backer is expected to announce her support for John McCain today. See if you can parse her public statements and make sense of her motivations.

On Logical Consistency

"Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN."

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."

On Elitism

"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."

So I said to Evelyn, We're going to have to do it like Bernard Baruch and get rich by exiting too soon.

Back when John [TV/wireless mogul and gagillionaire Kluge] sold to Southwest Bell I said "Boy, you know, I want a net worth of $40 million. Because I just thought that was more money than I could ever imagine. I thought I would die and go to heaven if I ever had $40 million. And John gave me the best advice I've ever gotten in one sentence. He said, "Stop. Don't think at all about the net worth you're creating. Think about your vision for what you're creating, and that you wake up every day and you love it. The money will follow." And it was sort of so profound, and this rush came over me of "Oh my God, of course," and then I just went on from there. And that made a huge difference to me.

On being a hypocritical fool

"Well, most of all I learned that it's better to be lucky than to be smart."

"But we do live in a world of consequences."