Yet Another Republican for Obama: Charles Fried
Don’t expect the likes of Bill Kristol or Charles Krauthammer, or even David Brooks, to switch allegiance anytime soon, or ever, but the list of Republicans — and fairly high-profile ones — coming out for Obama is getting longer and longer:
Now it’s distinguished conservative intellectual Charles Fried, solicitor general during Reagan’s second term and currently a law professor at Harvard — oh, and until just recently a member of the McCain campaign.
Here’s Cass Sunstein at TNR’s The Plank:
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.”
As with Weld’s endorsement, Fried’s announcement won’t change many minds or otherwise make much of a difference, but it’s yet another sign both of Obama’s incredible appeal and of a Republican Party in collapse.
(Hey, at least Bush voted for McCain. Woo-hoo!)
Jason Zengerle wonders who the next “Obamacon” might be: Michael Brown? Tom Kean? George Pataki? Gordon Smith? (He picks Pataki.)
I doubt it’ll be a prominent current office-holder. Maybe another of Bush I’s foreign policy team? How about Brent Scowcroft? (Has he endorsed yet?)
