Lynn Forester de Rothschild

Lynn de Rothschild's endorsement of John McCain is being treated as big news by some outlets, with the hearty encouragement of the McCain campaign. But anyone who paid attention—and it was hard not to—to de Rothschild and others in the small-but-vocal group of defiant Hillary Clinton post-primary holdouts knows that she has been saying she planned to vote for McCain for weeks now, as she indicated when I interviewed her before the Democratic convention.

Yes, she's charming and wealthy and makes for good copy. But this announcement itself, at this point, is simply not a big deal.

Somewhat more significant, if no less unexpected, is the fact that she'll be doing a fund-raising dinner for McCain in October, and campaigning for him in swing states in the upcoming weeks.  read more »

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild doesn’t look like a radical.

Surrounded by bike paths, ponds and the Atlantic Ocean in her Martha’s Vineyard farmhouse, not far from where Bill and Hillary Clinton usually summer, the lifelong Democrat and Clinton fund-raiser opened a laptop to her “Together4Us” Web site, an online petition that features Hillary Clinton looking luminous above a series of demands made of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.

Ms. de Rothschild, 54, dressed in matching blue pants and sweater, blond hair tucked behind her ears, said she plans to send copies of the more than 6,000 signatures she has collected to superdelegates, Mr.  read more »