Good catch ... we are being pooped upon at FR of late by the radical fools Axelgreasy sends out to play disinformation ont he Internet.
I have no idea what other crazy things the poster is saying, but there were a few quite conservative people here at FR who did reject Fred Thompson because of his key work getting the unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform bill passed.
Some of them backed off when Thompson made suggestions he might try to repeal some of the more onerous parts of that bill. It’s OK sometimes to be wrong, if you support the right thing later.
But it is indicative of how we tend to forgive those we love, and chastise those we dislike, often for the same sins.