From Wikipedia on Warner:
...Warner was among ten GOP Senators who voted against the charge of perjury during Clinton's impeachment (the others were Dick Shelby of Alabama, Ted Stevens of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Olympia Snowe of Maine, John Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Slade Gorton of Washington and Fred Thompson of Tennessee). Warner and others who voted against the article angered many Republicans by their position. However, unlike Snowe, Collins, Specter, Jeffords and Chafee, the rest of the Republicans voted "guilty" on the second article.
>> Both Warner and Fred Thompson ... voted against the impeachment of President Clinton.
>> ... unlike Snowe, Collins, Specter, Jeffords and Chafee, the rest of the Republicans voted “guilty” on the second article.
Apparently you missed the last line of your own post. Thompson voted Guilty on the second article of impeachment.
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Half-truths are lies.
Don't be a liar.
Actually they didn't vote against impeachment. The impeachment vote was taken in the House of Representatives. The impeachment trial was conducted in the Senate. At that point, nobody could vote for or against impeachment as the vote had already been taken to impeach clinton. Warner and Thompson both voted against CONVICTION on the first article, and both voted Guilty on the second. In my opinion the perjury charge was the blatant open and shut article that should have warranted a guilty vote, but then again I did not have the opportunity to sit in the Senate and hear the case tried. Thompson has explained why he voted the way he did in the impeachment trial, and his explanation was satisfactory as far as I'm concerned. It showed that he took his duty and oath seriously to evaluate the case and vote based on the merits rather than on partisan politics. Clearly the democrats in the senate did not do so on either article.
Neither Warner nor Thompson voted against impeachment — the House impeaches, and the Senate convicts or acquits. Thompson voted guilty on the obstruction charge — i.e., he voted to convict Clinton and remove him from office.