Questions about Fred Thompson

I'm sorry, but I have not seen a thread addressing these things specifically, though I have seen them pop up here and there.

Also, I just don't see those questions as "bashing." I don't.

There's nothing in the original post that seemed devious to me. They were a list of questions.

Please, read them again. A list of questions. That's what I see.

I'd hate to think that I have to treat folks on Free Republic like a bunch of liberals -- closed to honest discussion, each carrying their own agenda.

Conservatives should generally be able to trust other conservatives, shouldn't they?

No it's not 'Bravo' for asking the questions because they have already been answered ad nauseum, so this poster is just cluttering up the board with questions that impugn a great potential question.

Believe me I would drop Fred Thompson as my personal favorite in a flash if I saw he had character traits that showed the same lame politician dishonesty and non-directness that afflicts most of the others.

Now take this for an example. Suppose another poster starts a whole thread asking questions about FDT that have already been asked and answered several times over. Here's one:

1. Is this the same Fred Thompson that voted to acquit Clinton in the Senate?

Now that question is false on its face. Because FDT voted to convict. Now that poster would then show me evidence that FDT voted to acquit Clinton on perjury and then proceed to discredit me for supporting a guy that lets a perjurer off the hook when 'everyone' knows Clinton lied.

So I would come back and say that I support FDT's analysis on why he voted to acquit Clinton on perjury and that would launch such a poster in to hyperdrive hysteria. And then I would ask did you even bother to read the analysis of this great legal intellect in the person of Senator Fred Thompson?

http://www.australianpolitics.com/usa/clinton/trial/statements/thompson.shtml

And that should shut up just about anyone that wants to flap their cyber lips about things they have no understanding of.

So I could clutter up the board with useless questions as well like:

1. Is this the same Fred Thompson that voted to convict Clinton in the Senate?

Useless, even though it is true, because it has have already been asked and answered.

FR has a search feature, a very nice and advanced one to do research with. Alot of people get on these boards and start flapping away without researching and doing their due diligence. They create clutter.

So no 'Bravo' for a Romneyite that wants to ask skewed and loaded questions about FDT just to create doubt about FDT's principles, especially questions that have already been answered.

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