Posted on 07/13/2007 7:48:24 AM PDT by pissant
Uh, that's not quite the point. Double standard is the point.
Actually, the point is whether or not you actually believe that the person has changed.
In Harriet's case, a lot of people did not.
Sorry, but that's just how it goes. We all have baggage, and occasionally it trips us up.
Email from the National Right to Life Committee (Fred alert!)
National Right to Life Committee | July 8, 2007 | Karen Cross
Posted on 07/13/2007 12:23:28 PM CDT by Sturm Ruger
It appears that there is an attempt to create confusion regarding former Senator Fred Thompsons pro-life position.
You can go to National Right to Lifes website to see Senator Thompsons voting record against abortion, euthanasia, and experimentation on unborn babies bodies. As you can see, Senator Thompson had an excellent pro-life voting record while in the U.S. Senate.
I am concerned that someone may be misleading you about his record. Regardless, I assure you it was not from National Right to Life. National Right to Life PAC supported Senator Thompson for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and 1996, and considered him to be a very pro-life Senator.
Senator Thompson has since reaffirmed his pro-life position. I am attaching a link to the statement he made to the National Right to Life Convention:
Fred Thompson’s statement to the National Right to Life Convention
Thank you for your interest and concern on this critical issue.
Sincerely,
Karen Cross
Political Director
National Right to Life Committee
512 10th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004
This excerpt seems to be in conflict with your comment in post #160: especially if you are pro-choice as Fred was at least thru the 1996 election.
good enough for me,, piss off pissant
When compared to the entire field it changes to the following.......
Member Opinion | |||
---|---|---|---|
Fred Thompson | 50.9% | 1,405 | |
Duncan Hunter | 18.5% | 511 | |
Mitt Romney | 6.7% | 185 | |
Ron Paul | 6.4% | 177 | |
Rudy Giuliani | 5.8% | 161 | |
Undecided/pass | 4.7% | 131 | |
Tom Tancredo | 4.3% | 120 | |
Other | 1.1% | 30 | |
Mike Huckabee | 1.0% | 27 | |
John McCain | 0.4% | 12 | |
99.8% | 2,759 |
Good luck but 50-50 isn't the general populace out there in the fruited plains either..... More like a - among the national polls and state polls. But that's the beauty of the primaries as even wanabes can play for a while.
All that said should Hunter win the primary I'll support him in the general but I doubt he'll become my primary candidate.
That's because Rush knows his audience is smart enough to look the numbers up themselves. And does Mark's and Hugh's and Michael's listeners added up even equal that of Rush's?
THOMPSON WANTS DEBATE ON ABORTION DOWNPLAYED
Tennesee Commercial Appeal August 7, 1996, page A12
U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson says he seldom hears about abortion in campaign travels throughout Tennessee and hopes the issue is downplayed at the Republican National Convention.
The Tennessee Republican, an abortion-rights defender in a party with an anti-abortion tilt, is preparing for next week’s convention in San Diego. He said the party must avoid distracting issues and focus on electing Bob Dole as president.
‘’We need to concentrate on what brings us together and not what divides us,’’ Thompson said in an interview with The Tennessean published Tuesday.
Thompson said he opposes making early-term abortions a crime, as some Republicans would like to do with a constitutional amendment.
‘’But I don’t think you should bolt on one issue. I’m still not convinced platforms are a good idea. We know what we believe in and I don’t think we need to write it all down in a document,’’ Thompson said.
‘’We’re going to have to decide in this country whether we reduce the number of abortions or fight about the number of abortions. There are lots of things that we could do in terms of education and adoption to reduce the number of abortions. The two sides are so vigorous in opposing each other that they ignore the question of the number of abortions taking place.’’
Thompson, a lawyer and actor born in Lawrenceburg, is seeking to keep the Senate seat once held by Vice President Gore.
In 1994, an obscure opponent got 37 percent of the vote against Thompson in the Republican primary, which some observers attribute to an abortion backlash.
Last week Thompson got 96 percent of the Republican primary vote against another unknown opponent.
Abortion isn’t likely to emerge as an issue in Thompson’s 1996 general election campaign. His Democratic opponent, Covington lawyer Houston Gordon, favors abortion rights, said campaign manager Joyce McDaniel.
Thompson: The Supreme Court has attempted to delineate the constitutionally appropriate roles for individual and governmental decision-making on the issue of abortion. Beyond that, I believe that the federal government should not interfere with individual convictions and actions in this area
Becuase he was for more restrictions than the democrat, perhaps?
Please read post #168. We have a liar.
Tennessee Commercial Apeal, July 29, 1993, page B1
Tennessee's first seriously contested U.S. Senate election in 10 years came into focus Wednesday as Nashville lawyer Fred Thompson filed as a likely Republican candidate in 1994.
Thompson, 50, said his campaign for the seat vacated by Vice President Gore is still exploratory, but said ''the likelihood is great'' he'll formally enter the race early next year. Until then, he'll increase his public appearances across the state and build a warchest of campaign contributions.
His entry sets up a probable showdown with Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), the early Democratic front-runner who has been campaigning for months and has $1 million in campaign contributions banked. Cooper's Fourth Congressional District stretches from Morristown in East Tennessee to Savannah in West Tennessee.
If Sen. Harlan Mathews (D-Tenn.) does not run for election to the seat to which he was appointed in January by Gov. Ned McWherter - and he is not expected to do so - it will be the first contest for an open Senate post in Tennessee since former Republican senator Howard Baker did not seek re- election in 1984. Senate elections since then have involved Gore and Sen. Jim Sasser as strong Democratic incumbents against underfunded and relatively unknown Republican challengers. Sasser is also up for re-election next year.
Thompson has never run for public office but has long been active in Republican politics, first as a protege of Baker. Baker appointed the Lawrenceburg native as the Republican counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973. Thompson maintains law practices in Nashville and Washington, where he also lobbies Congress.
Thompson may be better known outside politics as a part-time movie actor. Since he played himself in the Tennessee-filmed movie Marie in the mid-1980s, he has had supporting roles in nearly two dozen movies, including the current Clint Eastwood hit, In the Line of Fire.
In an interview Wednesday, Thompson depicted himself as a moderate Republican who will reach out to traditionally Democratic voters.
''I come from a middle class background in a rural county,'' he said. ''I worked and borrowed my way through school. I've met a small-firm payroll for over 20 years. I think I see eye to eye with most Tennesseans.
''I'm going to go hard for the middle class and working folks, and I'm going to be in the black community. I'm not conceding anything.''
Thompson took traditional Republican stands on several issues. He said he would oppose the labor-backed striker replacement bill awaiting Senate action that could make it illegal for business to permanently replace striking workers. Cooper voted against the bill when it passed the House of Representatives this year, saying it would hurt small business in his district.
Thompson said he supports the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. He opposes federal funding for abortion and favors allowing states to impose limited restrictions on abortion, such as parental notification requirements for minors.
He also favors a constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms - including two six-year terms in the Senate.
Thompson is registered as a congressional lobbyist, currently for the Teamsters union's Central States Pension Fund, which has also been a law client of his for 10 years.
He has previously registered as a lobbyist for deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; Westinghouse Electric Corp., in support of the abandoned Clinch River Breeder Reactor nuclear power plant in Oak Ridge; and the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian cable television company opposing legislation that would have blocked its entry into the U.S. market.
Thompson is an ''of-counsel'' attorney with the Washington law firm Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn. His lobbyist registration forms show the firm's other foreign lobbying clients include Toyota Motor Corp., Perrier Group, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan and International Computers Ltd.
Thompson said his law practice is general, including criminal defense, lobbying, wrongful death litigation, general business and corporate consulting. He serves on the board of directors of Boston-based Stone and Webster Engineering Inc.
Just close your eyes and keep pretending as your cover gets thinner and thinner.
Yeh, Thompson filled out three questionaires stating pro-choice positions, and you’re going to toss that aside.
When did he decide that R. V W. was not a good thing?
Fred’s of course!
See third to the last paragraph in post 173.
Right to Life supported Thompson in ‘94 and ‘96. Why would they support a pro-choice candidate?
your RINO is showing through.
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