Posted on 07/13/2007 7:48:24 AM PDT by pissant
Of course not.
My point was that Meirs had changed her philosophy as well. And she got roasted.
Quite the double standard.
Unless, unlike Romeny, his campaign is trying to deny he ever was pro-choice. That’s far worse admitting your flip flop.
They already are. Click on the details and look at the member results vs non members.
The smart ones admit it and point to the fact that he’s still got a great record and he’s now pro-life. A perfectly valid response. The deniers are still twisting.
Again, had Fred actually denied the charge, this thread would not be in existence.
Meirs can't beat Hillary. Neither can Rudy McRomney or that guy with two first names.
Fred can.
My apologies. I did not realize that you were being sarcastic. Carry on!
1) Thompson spokesman Mark Corallo told the Times in an e-mail: Fred Thompson did not lobby for this group, period.
2) On Thursday, Corallo offered a less sweeping comment about Thompson and the group: He has no recollection of doing any work for this group. And since he was of counsel and not a member of the firm, it was not unusual for the firms partners to trot their clients in to meet him, get his views and even some advice.
Ignoring the editorializing at the start of #2, these statements are not in conflict with each other. The first statement, that Thompson never lobbied for the group, is absolutely true -- not even the Clinton operatives dredging up this bogus story claim that he actually performed any lobbying (they try to imply it, but even they don't go as far as to claim it explicitly).
The statement in #2 is more ambiguous, because it is much, much broader. Doing "any work" covers the type of advice described several times in this thread. It is possible that he did provide this type of quick consult, but that he does not remember ever having done so. He does not flat-out deny it, because it could have happened, and if documentation to that effect does happen to turn up and there's a flat denial, then that's a gotcha, even though it's otherwise a complete non-issue.
But the denial on doing any actual lobbying work was made, has not been retracted, and is confirmed by all of the other principal players.
That's why your objections are silly -- they are based on nonsense and not the facts at hand. Good lord, when did FReepers start accepting the LA Times and Clinton operatives at face value?
Rob21 got banned for trying to hold Freds feet to the fire on abortion. The claim was that he was distorting the record, but that claim is starting to sound hollow to me.
To: Grunthor
Now how many decades ago did Fred make a pro-choice statement?
So what? Mitt Romney made his statements in support of abortion a long time ago, but he is still attacked for making them. Why shouldnt we be concerned about Fred Thompsons support for murder?
That article contains no new information that we didn’t have yesterday. It’s a rehash with a slant that the anti-Freds like.
“I remember every job Ive ever held.”
You made me laugh.
BTW - If true, he and his supporters owe at least one other candidate a great big apology.
When it helps to hurt the candidate just about everyone is willing to back, and not the one they have starry-eyed supported.
Oh, my mistake. Tell me where they claimed he was previously pro-choice and I’ll have the mods pull me post. Thanks
It isn’t that outrageous for some of the pro-life people on this forum who consider abortion to be murder.
If there is one issue that I think someone’s feet should be held to the fire on, it is this one. A little bit of rhetorical lattitude is proper here, considering the 50M lost souls.
Do you want me to re-post all of his past pro-choice statements again? I’m sure you’ve seen them many times, but continue to tapdance around them. But I’ll find them, yet again.
Show me all of his pro-choice votes, please. ...waiting...waiting...waiting...crickets chirping happily...
Did I say anything about his voting? Well yes I did on our last thread. That is: Voting for restrictions on abortion does NOT make someone pro-life, especially if you are pro-choice as Fred was at least thru the 1996 election.
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