Carly Fiorina woos Clinton supporters for McCain
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080615/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_fiorina_dc_2 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain enlisted the high-profile help of Carly Fiorina, once the most powerful businesswoman in the United States, on Saturday to try to get women behind his campaign for the White House.
Arizona Sen. McCain makes no secret of his wish to attract women who backed New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid, regularly praising her and noting their work and travel together as members of the U.S. Senate.
Fiorina, a top economic adviser and head of a Republican get-out-the-vote effort, empathized with the former first lady's experience when she took questions from across the country during a McCain campaign "virtual town-hall meeting."
"Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through," Fiorina said.
"I also believe though, if we are striving for a gender-blind, color-blind society, that we really ought to be focused on the person that we think will make the right judgments, the right decisions and have the right positions."
That person is John McCain, she said.
Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (L) stands while Carly Fiorina, former chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, speaks during a campaign event in Warren, Michigan in this January 12, 2008 file photo.
(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)