Posted on 07/07/2007 9:54:02 PM PDT by pissant
Imagine you're the district attorney character on, say, television's long-running "Law and Order." You have five witnesses who say they either saw the accused, or learned contemporaneously, that the accused did the alleged bad thing.
Then imagine the accused's defense is essentially a variant of "I don't recall. There's no paper trail. Nope, I didn't do it." And the accused has a friendly witness who at first doesn't recollect if the accused did the bad thing, then ratchets up to "It didn't happen."
If you're the DA, you probably still think you've got a case, right? Maybe you'll just let the jury decide.
That appears to be where we're at in case of The People v. Fred Thompson, the people being family-planning types who say they hired Thompson to lobby the first Bush White House to overturn an anti-abortion executive order. The story was broken by Michael Finnegan of the Los Angeles Times.
Thompson, the former Tennessee Republican senator who appears to be running for president even though he hasn't yet officially announced, says, through a spokesperson, he didn't do the lobbying at all back in 1991. That's a surprise to the family-planning folks who say that's exactly what they hired him to do back during his Washington lobbyist days, to specifically lobby then-White House chief of staff John Sununu.
This matters, of course, because Thompson has been wooing the anti-abortion activists and social conservatives so important to winning the Republican nomination. They're on the jury.
If this story gains legs, that increases Thompson's challenge in winning over that group. If the people who recall signing on Thompson to lobby the first Bush White House are seen as more credible, Thompson will not only suffer with those opposed to abortion but also more generallly because his truthfulness will become
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Yes, but that movie didn't come out for more than a year after the conversation in question took place. And for a TV movie, the post-production time frame would not be a year or more...
I think Thompson has thicker skin than some of his supporters here. ;^)
But if he says one thing and the documentation shows up to prove otherwise, it will be just what the libs are waiting for.
I think if they had it, the'd show it.
Time will tell.
No doubt about that. They expect the rest of the candidate’s supporters to get in line for the coronation. Ain’t happening.
But the LA Times may be chasing a Mary Mapes/Rather story on this one.
Well, the OLD Reagan signed a law in Califronia that liberalized abortion.
Glad you're up to speed.
>>Yes, but that movie didn’t come out for more than a year after the conversation in question took place. And for a TV movie, the post-production time frame would not be a year or more...<<
It’s really common for actors to work a year or more in advance of when a film is released. I don’t know the exact dates when he worked.
Yeah, but the minutes had peripheral spacing this time! ;-)
Too busy supporting Duncan Heinz to be up to speed.
Yes, and the NY Times reporterette who wrote the story married an old man herself, so I guess she herself is a "trophy wife". ;-)
I assume you are speaking of his opposition to abortion here. What are you using here to "correct" them here other than a dubious story in the LA Times?
“I want the records to be clear on ALL the candidates.”
If Bill or Hill is involved in a campaign, that is never going to happen. Confuse, lie, distort. They and their underlings are known for many falsehoods. It takes a long time to find the proof sometimes [Peter Paul’s videos took five years to be released that prove she’s lied].
I like Duncan Hunter too, he’s a great candidate. If he ever had any polling numbers like FDT, he’s be attacked and lied about too. You’re holding Fred to an impossible standard.
To me, the 0 he gets from pro abortion groups is proof enough. He would not have a 0 from them if he had ever worked for them. There has been other information offered from his spokesman and John Sununu. It takes forever to go through billing records and do it carefully.
I’m not impressed with your posts, and I do not consider them fairminded.
The truth hurts.
Try Hydrocodone.
What is so good about this for Fred, is:
Inane accusations inure voters to such charges, thereby immunizing him against future potentially more substantial or credible ones.
Fred would be wise to even help plant wildass accusations early. People will tire of hearing them.
Way to go, Dummycrats!
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