Posted on 09/24/2014 5:35:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
She likely will announce a second bid after the November midterms as Howard Gordon and Dana Walden begin to rally: "People have been very 'Let's wait and see' until now. People are starting to get excited," says Gordon.
It's back to the future for Hollywood's Democratic activists, many of whom are convinced that former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will run again for president and are lining up to show support.
As Clinton, 66, was in New York on Sept. 21 for the annual Clinton Global Initiative gathering, the leading pro-Clinton super PAC held an event for more than 70 supporters at the Pacific Palisades home of producer Howard Gordon and wife Cambria. The event was organized by the Ready for Hillary super PAC, which bills itself as a group "encouraging" Clinton to run while laying the financial "groundwork" for a campaign. Several of those at the gathering, co-hosted by producer Ryan Murphy and husband David Miller, told THR that they believe Clinton likely will declare her candidacy soon after the November midterm elections.
Murphy, a key Barack Obama fundraiser, says he wasn't hesitant to join "Team Hillary" this time. "It's very important to get a woman in the White House," he says. "That's why I'm supporting her. I've been inspired by her tenacity. I've been inspired by her grace under pressure."
Clinton was blindsided in the 2008 race when prominent Hollywood Democrats — including David Geffen, who had backed her husband, Bill — sided with Obama. Gordon, who supported Hillary in 2008, says he believed showbiz would rally around Hillary this time but was surprised by the strong turnout for the super PAC event. "People have been very 'Let's wait and see' until now," says Gordon. "People are starting to get excited."
The event, which featured a concert by Gordon's neighbor Burt Bacharach and an appearance by Sen. Barbara Boxer, was Ready for Hillary's largest West Coast fundraiser so far. (Tickets were priced from $1,000 to $2,500.) Among those in attendance were Fox's Dana Walden, screenwriter Billy Ray and former Fox president Gail Berman. Michael Douglas, who was out of town, sent a contribution.
"People have been whispering about this for so long, it would be so disappointing if it doesn't happen," says Walden, adding that friends with ties to the Clintons have told her Hillary definitely is running. "There's a huge groundswell of support that's starting already."
The talking farm animal needs to go out to pasture.
Any talk of the former First Marxist running for president badly needs a barf alert.
I don’t normally do “barf alerts” or the like. Most headlines speak for themselves, as this one did.
But I will make an exception for products made in red states, or for companies that promote Conservative values.
I will do you one better and move away.
It all depends on the coming election, if the rats
keep the Senate she will run. If not then she will
bow out and let some smuck take the fall.
Pathetic, isn’t it...? This is the best they’ve got???
Joe McCarthy was right.
In 2016, Hillary will be one year younger than the oldest president to assume office, Ronald Reagan.
I’ve got $5 and a pitcher of margueritas riding on her never actually announcing.
I don’t believe President Reagan ever fell and had brain damage. He also didn’t suffer from alcoholism.
My point was that we all heard the mantra that Ronald Reagan was TOO OLD to be president at the age of 69.
Reagan rode horses, cleared brush, swam vociferously and walked. Hillary drinks like a fish and eats like a horse. See the difference?
These Hollywood Liberals need to be taxes until they don’t have two nickles to give to a homeless dude. They are using their wealth to force their selection of Liberal Leaders upon us. They gave us Obama (Thanks Tina Fey and Oprah) and they forced Brown upon the state of California (The other Mexico). Time for these grey hippies to hit the road.
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