And the wheels keep spinning off...
another ouch.
This has got to be the biggest blow yet. It's already not shaping up as a good weekend for McCain.
Charles Fried, one of John McCain's advisers, has already voted for Obama.
He stated the Palin choice was the biggest factor in his defection.
Folks, this man is a major conservative thinker and he used to be a rabid McCain supporter.
He was a key insider to McCain, and he just switched sides? Heck he is listed as a major ally of McCains on some of the literature.
This is shocking news. Wow!
another ouch.
This has got to be the biggest blow yet. It's already not shaping up as a good weekend for McCain.
Charles Fried, one of John McCain's advisers, has already voted for Obama.
He stated the Palin choice was the biggest factor in his defection.
Folks, this man is a major conservative thinker and he used to be a rabid McCain supporter.
He was a key insider to McCain, and he just switched sides? Heck he is listed as a major ally of McCains on some of the literature.
This is shocking news. Wow!
McCain Adviser Endorses Obama
The Wall Street Journal today rounds up the horde of prominent Republicans jumping ship to Barack Obama.
Now one of John McCain's actual advisers has switched sides:
Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States. Under President Reagan, he served, with great distinction, as Solicitor General of the United States. Since then, he has been prominently associated with several Republican leaders and candidates, most recently John McCain, for whom he expressed his enthusiastic support in January.
This week, Fried announced that he has voted for Obama-Biden by absentee ballot. In his letter to Trevor Potter, the General Counsel to the McCain-Palin campaign, he asked that his name be removed from the several campaign-related committees on which he serves. In that letter, he said that chief among the reasons for his decision "is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis."
TPM has the press releases here touting Fried's presence on the McCain campaign.