“God-like popularity”
This is too good not to mention.
Our friends at The Gazette of Politics and Business down in Montgomery County have a fun story about the 10 most politically powerful people (as well as 10 also-rans) in the state.
Sure enough, one County Executive Jim Smith is on that list. And the defining quote is well worth the read:
‘‘He has God-like popularity,” Potomac Inc. pollster G. Keith Haller said. ‘‘He probably has the best relationship with the existing governor and tends to be more of a moderate conservative.”
We must have missed that presser where Smith fed the masses with a fish and a loaf of bread.
So, is Jim Smith (like John Lennon’s Beatles) more popular that Jesus Christ?
Don Mohler, a spokesman for Smith, laughed and gently deflected the question.
“As the product of a Jesuit education, the county executive is very uncomfortable with being compared to the deity,” Mohler said.