Way to go check the record. This creates some context. I don’t know who I will support in GOP primaries, but I do hope that analysis of candidates, at least here at FR will be on issues and not attacks.
As an aside, I think each poster should disclose his/her favorite candidate (if he/she has one) so that biases will be disclosed. Disclosing one’s biases, by the way, doesn’t make one’s point wrong, but it does point to what may be its motivation.
Congress passed a bill after Schiavo's feeding tube was removed in March 2005 to allow a federal court to review the case, ...Thompson, a former Tennessee senator who left office in 2003,
“I just checked on something.. during the time the Schiavo situation was going on, Thompson was heading the advisory group to help nominate John Robers to the USSC. Right after Robert’s nomination (Schiavo case still going on), Thompson was chairing of the International Security Advisory Board (chaired this until July 2007).. so yea, he had a lot of time to get involved with this case.. Little, unimportant things like the Supreme Court and Terrorism going on, Thompson had no excuse to not be personally involved in this case.//sarc”
I’m sorry that’s a bit of a stretch. He was too busy to have an opinion or a even a recollection of the case?!? The story dominated the country. If he doesn’t remember it he’s either trying to duck the issue or he’s out of touch. Either way, his non-answer is a dissapointment.