The Colonel's Fried trumps Professor Fried any day.
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.
> Wonder what$ in it for him? $$$$$?
More likely he was blackmailed.
Time to clean out the trash, get rid of the RINO’s good riddance.
Was this the guy who leaked such things to the press as— Sarah Palin had gone “rogue” and that she was causing problems, told the MSM how much her wardrobe cost? HA! Good riddance to Professor Traitor.
The Colonel's Fried trumps Professor Fried any day.
Oh, so he submitted his vote for Obama while still advising the McCain campaign?
What goes around will come around BIG TIME!
Does not matter. F.H.!!! VOTE!! The last days of this I don’t want to see this crap! I don’t care! Vote and we will literally make them bleed Tuesday night.
Charles brain has been fried. He no longer knows right from wrong, up from down or truth from lies. Sad. It has happened to many in America.
This guy and Reagan’s former Chief of Staff Durbrister (or something like that) are total rats. How they can turn on John this late is classless
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1935, Fried became a United States citizen in 1948.
Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School
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We wouldn't want him left out of any of those ‘intellectual’ parties if he backed a ‘hick’ vice presidential candidate.
McCain advisor Charles Fried was paid $120,000 by the Obama campaign to defect.
He’s getting a job in Obama’s administration — it’s no wonder he decided to switch sides at join the democrats.
Like anybody cares.
I guess these bozos all figured that by holding their “defection” close to the vest until the last minute, it would have more impact. It actually will have virtually none at all, since most people either don’t remember them or have never heard of them in the first place. The few people who have were probably voting Dem anyway, like the rest of their country club “Republican” friends.
I guess they wanted their 15 microseconds of fame. Maybe it worked, because I sure wouldn’t have recalled any of these has-beens otherwise.
And she's already having a terrific effect in outing the RINO's, the cultural liberals and other loons in the GOP. Let the purge continue.
If you think Sarah Palin is a hick, you ought to join the brie and white wine elitists and leave the rest of us to kick some butt. Good bye, don't let the barn door hit you in the rear on your way out.
GO SARAH GO!
I agree. Think about it; why days before the election would a long-time conservative member of the McCain campaign defect publicly?
If you were mad enough about something you might quit, though so close to the end doesn't make sense. But if you quit this close to the end you'd keep your mouth closed at least until after election day out of simple decency.
Supporting rookie Obama because Palin is a rookie doesn't pass the smell test. It smells.
His bias against Sarah Palin appears to have something to do with her attendance at 5 different schools he never heard of.
He's going to burn in Hell even if he doesn't believe in it.
Goodbye to another elitist ahole!!
And operation “Wheat From Chaff” continues. Win or lose, we do not need people who will turn against their chosen party with such obvious pretext.
This is great to hear...
Gov Palin is serving as an effective insect repellent,
and McCain is beginning to realize he has a bug problem.
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