Thompson 'Terrible' in Chinagate Probe, Critics Say

Cybercast News Service ^ | October 10, 2007 | Fred Lucas

[rmlew]

(CNSNews.com) - On Tuesday, the day Fred Thompson made his debate debut in the 2008 presidential race, two conservative commentators criticized how the former Tennessee senator handled the 1990s Senate probe into Clinton campaign fundraising corruption.

Thompson was chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in 1997, when the committee probed Chinese money that allegedly poured into the 1996 re-election campaign of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.

"Had there been a legitimate investigation of Chinese money laundering, the results would have been very different from the results of Monica Lewinsky," said John Gizzi, political editor for Human Events, the conservative weekly newspaper.

Gizzi was contrasting Clinton's campaign finance scandal - which he deemed far more serious - with the sex and perjury scandal that led to Clinton's impeachment in the House and acquittal in the Senate in the late 1990s.

[jveritas]

Yes they are pathetic indeed, very weak, and have zero effect.

[Maynerd]

LOL. The smiles are priceless.

[pissant]

Terrible is too kind a term for his performance.

[ejonesie22]

No, he hit it today with the Stripper picture next to Fred and Jeri.

[Beagle8U]

Look at it this way....Willard’s plan was to make it a 2 person race.

He succeeded, and after Fred knocks Rooty out it will be a one person race.

Poor Willard didn’t figure that “he” wasn’t going to be part of two person race he wanted...lol

[JRochelle]

You really are pathetic.

[balch3]

bullcorn.

[Petronski]

That bullshit is permitted to continue here, like it’s DU or something.

Disgusting.

[Theresawithanh]

[ejonesie22]

Exactly why Mitt fans are so desperate now. Mitt had a plan. Take two years and build some Conservative Bona Fides, then look like a Conservative bastion against Rudy once everyone gets his number near the primaries.

They had it made until that old, dying, lazy actor and his “hooker” wife showed up.

Now there is a top tier candidate who really is a Conservative and all of Mitt's money and all of Mitt's men can’t put Mitty together again.

[JRochelle]

I had not seen that one before.

Unbelievable.

[Swordfished]

That bullshit is permitted to continue here, like it’s DU or something.

Look who's talking. You've spammed many a thread with your vileness. Are you finally cleaning up and going straight?

[Beagle8U]

Just to tell you how bad it is for Willard....even McCain was slapping him around today...lol

[stephenjohnbanker]

“If Robinson Crusoe had gotten Gilligan instead of Friday, he’d have given him back to the cannibals.”

“Some say”////////////////////////////////

[ejonesie22]

I take it you saw the Stripper post from that idiot today.

I almost let it fly, to the point I would have been banned.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“They had it made until that old, dying, lazy actor and his “hooker” wife showed up.”

Man, that is cold!

[ejonesie22]

Petronski has never even come close to Team Mitt.

[stephenjohnbanker]

BUMP

[Publius]

Who Sold Us Out to China: A Study of the Sino-American Relationship