It doesn’t sound like that at all. He adamantly denies that Thompson lobbied anyone on their behalf.
Sununu says that it never happened too. Is he supposed to be lying along with Fred to cover up this idiotic non-story about a lobbyist for hire lobbying someone? If he had done lobbying for them, he would have just said so. A few of the hand wringers such as yourself might have used it as a propaganda tool, (yeah, I know, he’s supposedly your number two and you do a good job of seeming just reasonable enough, but frankly, the whole charade smells like a steaming load of a different kind of number two...) but really nobody else would give a damn.
People need lawyers. Lawyers take on clients. That doesn’t mean they support what the client wants. It’s a paying job.
Now, at this point, after denying it, if it were proven true, it would be horrible. There’s no reason to think that would be the case though.
Listen. Fred is my #2. If Hunter drops out, right now he would be my #1. Not as enthusiastic as you, but I certainly would want him to beat back Rudy and McCain. But since he is all the rage right now, we better vet him well. He’a already got some fairly major baggage. Not anything like Rudy McRomney though, and he has a track record of reasonably good conservative credentials. Hence he is many conservative’s first choice. Hopefully this will blow over and the snakes will be revealed as the snakes they are (LA Times). But its already a media firestorm (ah, the benefits of being a frontrunner) and it will have to be slayed.
ROFL got that right.