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Monday, July 21, 2003
Sleeping your way to the top
Serial trophy wife, Georgette Mosbacher says no to taking on Schumer, instead looking forward to running against Hillary Clinton:
THE GOP's latest hope to challenge U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has decided against making the race, and instead is considering challenging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) in 2006, The Post has learned.
Megamillionaire businesswoman and top national GOP fund-raiser Georgette Mosbacher - who has been urged to run against Schumer next year by Gov. Pataki and other Republican leaders - said yesterday that the "timing isn't right" to enter the race.
"The timing isn't right in my life given the obligations I have to my business," said Mosbacher, president and CEO of Borghese, an international cosmetics firm.
Mosbacher, New York's only national Republican committeewoman and a confidant of many powerful GOP leaders, said she remains interested in running for statewide office - and is thinking of challenging Clinton in 2006.
"Taking on Hillary is really something I would consider," said Mosbacher. "I think she's going to run for president in 2008 and I think she has to be stopped, and that's something I certainly would be interested in helping make happen," she said.
That should give Mosbacher enough time to get through about three more marriages to pick up some extra campaign cash.
Here's a great review from Publishers Weekly (via Amazon) on Mosbacher's last book, Feminine Force:
Mosbacher, CEO of her own cosmetics company, learned self-reliance at an early age. When she was seven, her father died, leaving her mother with four children and no income. In a few years Mosbacher was working to help support the family while her mother encouraged her to pursue her dream of a glamorous lifestyle. After two failed marriages (one to an abusive man), she married Robert Mosbacher, who became U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Throughout the book, the author urges women to stand on their own, not depending on a man to support them, but this advice is offered with what seems like cynicism and a general distrust of men. The book is so filled with personal anecdotes, Mosbacher never really gets around to showing women how to achieve their goals. Much attention is given to such topics as personal appearance, cosmetic surgery and networking, but these things often require financial and social resources beyond the reach of many women. Mosbacher seems to forget that it is the exception rather than the rule for a woman to get a hefty divorce settlement. There are a few gold nuggets here, but the overall message may be summed up by the third of her "Feminine Force Principles": "Life isn't fair--so what?"
Think of her as the Pamela Harriman of the right...but without the elegance.
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