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Fred Thompson Defends Campaign Adviser With Criminal Record
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Posted on 11/04/2007 8:05:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Fred Thompson Defends Campaign Adviser With Criminal Record

Sunday , November 04, 2007

Fred Thompson said Sunday that he wishes he had known earlier that one of his key presidential campaign advisers pleaded guilty to drug charges but he still thinks Phil Martin is "a good man."

Martin, a businessman who has lent Thompson his Cessna to fly around the country, is one of four campaign co-chairman for the '08 Republican candidate. The Washington Post reports Sunday that Martin also posted a guilty plea in 1979 for selling 11 pounds of marijuana and a no contest plea in 1983 for cocaine trafficking and conspiracy.

Judgment was withheld on the first plea while Martin served out probation. The 1983 charges, along with a felony bookmaking charge, came while he was still serving that probation. Martin's probation was extended and he served no jail time.

Thompson, who's not the first candidate this year to be linked to a donor with a criminal past, seemed to brush off the news.

"You are talking about something that happened in his life, I guess, 25 years ago ... when he was in his 20s," Thompson said. "I wish I had known about it a little bit earlier. Phil, I am sure, knows that he should have told me about this. That he thought (it) was over and done with and forgotten about I am sure. But of course nothing is ever over and done with and forgotten about in this business."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fredthompson; phillipmartin; philmartin
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To: Puddleglum
Got asbestos? ;^)
141 posted on 11/04/2007 12:21:34 PM PST by airborne (Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: Diverdogz

[JulieAnnie camp.]

LOL...PERFECT.


142 posted on 11/04/2007 12:23:49 PM PST by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

I would appreciate it if you would explain what you mean by these comments. Explain what the split vote means. What took place, what were the dynamics involved and what were his votes that you are addressing?

Please expand on your comments. As you have stated them they sound vague and detached.

I don’t mind you making a point, but most of what you posted is just conjecture, or something I have no way of assessing.


143 posted on 11/04/2007 12:26:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Mrs Crinton have Pay Feava. There she go now. "Ah Hsu Ahhh Hsu Ah Hsu!" Crintons worth every penny.)
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To: airborne

Aw, Fred-heads can stand any and all scrutiny of their candidate and his associates. The truth and an amiable dog-faced, dour old soul with a growl is on their side. They stand tall in the saddle, right?


144 posted on 11/04/2007 12:27:02 PM PST by Puddleglum
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To: DoughtyOne
1) MORALS

So if 50.01 per cent of the voters of a state says the planned murder of the most helpless is okay, Thompson would do nothing to save even one life!

I can not understand any person who would compromise with the planned murder of the most helpless!

145 posted on 11/04/2007 12:30:15 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: Puddleglum
They stand tall in the saddle, right?

LOL! Have you read all of the posts yet?

Some do, some... not so much.

146 posted on 11/04/2007 12:30:55 PM PST by airborne (Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: hershey; ansel12; Petronski

Many will miss that FACT that Fred’s integrity derives from a natural tendency of transparency before the public. If he has been mislead, he will deal with it just as publicly. To make such a public comment of ‘I need to look at this because I must do the right thing’ is a mark of integrity. Contrast that with the clinton slugs and the DNC goon squad of dissemblers and liars.


147 posted on 11/04/2007 12:35:30 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: JRochelle
Thune would be great as well. Or Congressman John Kline (He needs to become the MN Governor first).
148 posted on 11/04/2007 12:35:55 PM PST by lesser_satan (READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON '08)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Would you please quit being so obtuse? If you have a specific incident or a vote you wish to object to, please explain what the heck took place. So far you are making statements that I can’t judge on their face value. Mention a specific incident and we’ll address it.

I’m not trying to give you a hard time, I just want to deal with a real tangible incident, and not general blanket comments.


149 posted on 11/04/2007 12:36:23 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Mrs Crinton have Pay Feava. There she go now. "Ah Hsu Ahhh Hsu Ah Hsu!" Crintons worth every penny.)
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To: Yaelle

I like it!


150 posted on 11/04/2007 12:36:31 PM PST by lesser_satan (READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON '08)
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To: Puddleglum

Yes, the guilt by association game will be played. It will be one game that will have to played honestly. Because of his desire to treat issues with honesty, Fred Thompson is correct to defend his friend, Martin. The man has turned his life around.

It is a fallacy of logic to think a person is the same throughout their entire life. People change. The MSM will continue to cast Martin as an undesirable by focusing on a distant past while ignoring his recent life. This is a trick. It is also a tactic to deflect focus on the cast of unsavory characters surrounding the Hillary machine. We have to judge people by what they are doing now.


151 posted on 11/04/2007 1:18:24 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: airborne

I’m not that new, and sometimes harsh words are called for.


152 posted on 11/04/2007 2:06:38 PM PST by Grunthor (Just askin’: Is the problem in the Middle East too much George Bush, and not enough George Patton?)
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To: I'll be your Huckleberry

LOL, I honestly never knew the screen name existed. Good to meet ya.


153 posted on 11/04/2007 2:08:57 PM PST by Grunthor (Just askin’: Is the problem in the Middle East too much George Bush, and not enough George Patton?)
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To: Grunthor
I’m not that new, and sometimes harsh words are called for.

Member since 2/15/07. That's not bad,but it's new.

A personal insult is not needed if you have a valid point you could make instead.

Oh, and welcome to FreeRepublic, nOOb! ;^)

154 posted on 11/04/2007 2:13:32 PM PST by airborne (Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I fail to see you're point since Fred didn't do anything, nor is he accused of being involved in any way.

Hunter, on the other hand was accused of being directly involved in the house banking thingy. I'll not judge if the accusations against Hunter were justified or not, but surely you can see the difference?

155 posted on 11/04/2007 3:54:22 PM PST by Jotmo (I Had a Bad Experience With the CIA and Now I'm Gonna Show You My Feminine Side - Swirling Eddies)
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To: Sub-Driver

The Thompson campaign has not violated any campaign finance laws, unlike the HRC campaign. And if all of a sudden we have a problem with people getting loaded when they were younger, then, we better take a hard look at the dem’s choice for first lady, Bill Clinton, mister I did not inhale bozo.


156 posted on 11/04/2007 4:19:01 PM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nilhilism)
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To: airborne
... He got busted with 11 pounds of weed, and with violating his probation and with multiple counts of felony bookmaking, cocaine trafficking and conspiracy, and he got probation

I have a little test for myself when stuff like this comes up. I ask myself, "What if it was the opposition?" Frankly, I wouldn't give a good doodley-squat if a Liberal opponent's supporter was a guy who'd been busted for weed and coke dealing 24 years ago. I'd sneer at Conservatives who used it as some sort of condemnation of the Liberal opponent, and it would hold no water for me. I'd say, "That's not only weak, it's shallow and grasping."

They could have dug this up on a confederate of Romney or Clinton or Rudy or Obama, and I'd say the same thing. It's podunk, stupid and irrelevant.

157 posted on 11/04/2007 4:19:46 PM PST by Finny (There are many enemies in our work. One of them is envy. -- A British naval officer)
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To: Sub-Driver

On foxnews tomorrow, it will be all Carl Camaron all the time..going on and on and on and on and on and on and on....about this guy Martin.....


158 posted on 11/04/2007 4:23:26 PM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nilhilism)
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To: Fred

From Gary Aldrich’s book on his time in the Clinton White House, many of the staff never were vetted for a security clearance, many had used drugs. Which would probably make them ineligible for a security clearance.

I admire Fred’s conduct today and the way he handled it. We don’t know how this will all turn out. Martin should have told him, but also Martin is not going to need a security clearance at the White House, he won’t be working in the White House. Fred did really good today.

I’m of a mind that if he turned his life around and rehabilitated himself, that should have an impact.


159 posted on 11/04/2007 5:01:26 PM PST by daylilly
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To: SteveMcKing

I love how you are taking things out of context. Fred knew him since the 90’s. Apparantly all of his drug dealings were 10 years before that. Learn to read.


160 posted on 11/04/2007 5:03:14 PM PST by Blue Highway
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