Posted on 10/31/2008 4:15:24 PM PDT by dennisw
Professor Charles Fried, an advisor to John McCain's presidential campaign, has announced that he can no longer support the McCain/Palin ticket. In a letter to the general counsel to the McCain/Palin campaign, he cited McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate as too dangerous "at a time of deep national crisis", and has asked for his name to be removed from several campaign committees on which he has served. Fried also publicly stated that he had voted for Obama via absentee ballot.
Fried later clarified to The New Republic that he had voted for Obama because he no longer supported the McCain ticket, and did not consider abstention "a proper option".
Fried has been an influential voice in American conservatism and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as Solicitor General in 1985. During his years serving with the Reagan administration, he represented the White House in over 25 cases before the Supreme Court. Fried was later an associate justice on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In the last decade, he has vocally supported George W. Bush's appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
With the exception of the above interruptions, Fried has taught at HLS, where he is known as an important theorist of contract law, since 1961. He has published extensively on a wide variety of topics, and is particularly known for his support of Kantian ethics.
He has joined a long line of Republicans, many of whom served in Republican presidential administrations, who have recently endorsed the Democratic candidate. These include former general and Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Massachusetts Governor William Weld '70, former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson, and former George W. Bush press secretary Scott McClellan.
Let’s see, Prof. Fried, you claim you are concerned about the nomination of Governor Palin..... so instead you will support for POTUS the most inexperienced, far-left candidate in US history!!!
Oh, yes, that makes perfect sense.
Let us say that Prof. Fried is just another in the line of RINOs and CINOs who will jump to support an anti-American socialistic leftist b/c Sarah Palin is a “social conservative”.... OOOOOOh, she’s so scary to these desiccated, fossilized clowns.
Another Soros buy-out... Money, money, money
Was this guy on anybody’s short list for a Cabinet position??? Why can’t these self-important lane changers can just make their exit as quietly as most voters. Who cares if they’re leaving? Don’t let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.
What offers are these fellows receiving from the Hussein camp?
Whatever sinecures they are promised by O’Bama, they will be sloughed off as “unreliable” after a Hussein win and have closed out their opportunities in a McCain administration.
The lines are becoming clearer.
I sense Obama's peeps are sensing the tide rolling out and desperately want to stop it. This guy and Duberstein probably didn't want to play the traitor to a guy they worked for if they didn't need to, but got lots of pressure to staunch the bleeding. imho.
Whoop dee doo. Glad to see him go.
Fried chicken?
And you thought baseball players were dumb. This guy makes Chet Utley look brillant.
Scum.
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