Professor John Frary
Posted on 06/15/2008 9:44:35 AM PDT by metesky
I really like this man's attitude, but in a state whose governor blames all shortcomings on lack of federal funds, I'm afraid he doesn't have a chance...
What say you?
LOTS and LOTS of people have asked me “Why on Earth are you running for Congress”?
I hear a lot of folks saying that you can’t get elected to Congress by telling the Truth and treating voters like adults, but I haven’t noticed anyone with the brass to actually TRY it. Maybe its time someone DID. We have a Congress whose approval ratings have sunk to historic lows. This month a Washington Post poll showed 32% approval, 60% disapproval. The public believes it has accomplished little or nothing of value.
Speaker Pelosi is reduced to counting among its “key accomplishments” bills to regulate cribs and high chairs and place drain covers on pools.
Mike Michaud is an interchangeable part of this noisy circus, voting with his party 96.3% of the time. Nothing distinguishes him from the rest of the mob. His major accomplishment? A job for Mike Michaud paying $165,000 a year with perks.
Putting it simply, someone has to run a “disincumbency” campaign against this ignorant hack and no one else came forward. Statistically, incumbents enjoy a virtual free ride back into office. Few of them deserve it.
But the REAL REASON IS... I’ve been worrying since the eighth grade about this quote about the future of the United States from the famous French historian ALEXIS De TOCQUEVILLE, and I haven’t seen any reason to stop worrying lately:
ON THE LIBERAL WELFARE STATE, should one arise in America:
“It would resemble the power of a benevolent father if, like him, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood, but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood. It likes citizens to enjoy themselves provided that they think only of enjoying themselves... it willingly works for their happiness, but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances. Can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living. [This state] extend sits arms over society as a whole. It covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowds... its does not tyrannize; it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more that a herd of timid and industrious animals of whom the government is the shepherd.” Any of this sound familiar?
I say if the GOP wants to win elections they should avoid nut cases.
I would heartily suggest that he make a few cosmetic changes that would strongly improve his chances.
First of all, drop the “professor” from his name. Often the assumption is that people resent academics, but this is not really the case. The problem lies in that he is asking to be hired for a job, and in this case, not a teaching job.
If you were going to hire someone for a job that is fairly rote, boring, and often petty and unpleasant, you probably don’t want someone who looks like they get bored easily.
All the color in the world won’t matter a whit in Washington, D.C., compared to the ability to plod through endless boring documents written in bureaucratese, and listening to endless dull and insipid speeches by lying imbeciles.
That is why most politicians are lawyers, have the personality of a door-to-door insurance salesman, and spend much of their day trying not to offend people by ignoring them, continually doling out only tokens of attention.
Second thing is fashion. Most men seem to inherently know that wearing one unusual accessory makes them interesting and distinct, but never to wear two, or people will think they are a fruitcake. Teen girls, however, don’t get this message and often think that wearing a bunch of funky clothing all at once is neat.
The difference between teen girls and adult men is that teen girls can do anything silly and still be cute. Adult men who do silly things are not seen as “eccentric”, but as “unbalanced”.
Third, even if elected, when he goes to Washington, D.C., he will still be a powerless freshman. He will sit on minor committees and build up positive and negative IOUs with other congressmen. Until he gets enough IOUs, he can forget getting any legislation passed.
Reporters both local and national, and other scoundrels, will either try to trip him up and make him look foolish, or LIE and say he said foolish things that he did not. A real man would be angry enough to take a bull whip to such scum, but he won’t have that option.
His style is a perfect fit for genuinely conservative Mainers.
Endorsements:
Senator Peter Mills: “John Frary has a superb intellect and a profound knowledge of history. His wit and powers of expression will add great depth to the discussion of issues affecting our nation from the perspective of northern and central Maine. It will be a pleasure to see him carrying the GOP banner throughout one of the largest and most beautiful Congressional districts in our nation.”
Senator Chandler Woodcock: “John Frary is exceptionally knowledgeable about the issues facing the people of Maine and the nation. He has a masterful grasp of the political process and is willing to dedicate himself to serving the people of the 2nd District. I greatly admire John's grasp of the subtleties of the political arena and know that he will be a wonderful Congressman whose votes will align with the beliefs of his constituents. I wholeheartedly endorse his candidacy.”
Senator Paul Davis: "John Frary will bring intellect, integrity and style to a Congress in desperate need of all three."
Dr Jon Reisman: “John will bring a sorely needed conservative and common sense voice to the race. His erudition and command over the issues will provide a telling contrast to the incumbent. John will be an able advocate for freedom and limited government and against the nanny state and the Move-on.org crowd that the incumbent has embraced.”
I still like a loose cannon, he sticks in the craw of the Republican establishment.
Who haven't won a statewide election since when????????????
The guy's a nut; he is an embarrassment to the party. His chances of winning approach zero.
Absolutely, I noticed that we got a lot of support from the at our FReep yesterday from Mainiacs returning to their communist republic. It may take a loose cannon to shape up Maine.
No, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are the embarrassments to the party.
I find his self-deprecating humor refreshing; I guess he doesn't have enough "gravitas" for you.
“No, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are the embarrassments to the party.”
They win. Has winning become an embarrassment for the far right wing of the Maine GOP?
“I guess he doesn’t have enough “gravitas” for you.”
Whether he has enough gravitas for me or not is neither here nor there. The man is clown. He will lose in a landslide and most Mainers will laugh once again at the Maine GOP, with complete justification.
Has he asked for Tennessee’s permission yet?
A victory for Collins and Snowe is hardly a win for the "far right wing" as you describe it.
most Mainers will laugh once again at the Maine GOP
The Maine GOP has become a laughingstock precisely because it's become a flaccid shadow of its formerly rock-ribbed self.
Εσεις μιλατε ελληνικα; Τι λεει και ποιος ειναι O "Φρανσις";
“A victory for Collins and Snowe is hardly a win for the “far right wing” as you describe it.”
I agree. They do however win for the GOP. That’s where the party is in Maine. The far right wing, whether at the polls, in the papers or on the radio, is simply a thorough going joke worthy of the scorn of the vast majority of Maine voters of all political affiliations. MD, what happens when right wing commentators in Maine endorse candidates and positions? They get smoked. Ask poor Dean Scontras. Every time those people open their mouths and launch one of their crusades, the Dems cheer. Its not so much the message as the shallow, cynical way the message is packaged and delivered, not to say by whom it is delivered. Maine folks don’t need people from, say, Florida, to tell them what to think or how to vote coupled with a lecture on phony economics that most 12 year olds can see through.
Why, did I murder it badly? :O(
“Why, did I murder it badly? :O(”
Basically you told me to “reduce the price”, which, as I am sure you can understand, struck me as an odd thing to say! :)
Grandfather from Lesbos and grandmother from Smyrna.
“Unfortunately she died over fifty years ago and my Greek has fallen into the memory hole and my Greek writing skills were deplorable even back than.”
Go back to the Patrida, connect with your cousins and you’ll find that the memory hole is actually quite shallow and that Greek will come roaring back. Maine has a good Greek community too, you know.
“Grandfather from Lesbos and grandmother from Smyrna.”
Arcadian on mother’s side.
Smyrna! There’s a legacy! When I was a kid there were people at church who survived the genocide there. Did you see this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031549/posts
Post #7.
My Aunt Lydia wrote this book about our family. Try and find a copy or even a review. When it first came out (self-published, I believe) critics from New York to Athens called it one of the worst books ever written, crushing my aunt's literary pretensions.
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