Fred and Terri tar baby dailies 1..., another series...
I hope nobody thinks I am picking on Fred. I am just recording what others say regarding Terri. Just a whole lot are connecting Fred to Terri and have from the beginning.
And Thompson's reluctance - or inability - to give straight answers to simple questions, even from his religious-right supporters, has been raising eyebrows and concerns.
For example: In Bible Belt Greenville, S.C., a woman in the crowd at his stump speech asked Thompson if he'll talk about his religious beliefs while campaigning. In response, he rambled about how uncomfortable he finds personal revelations. "I'm doing the best I can with it, because I don't hold myself out to be a perfect person. ... But I know that I'm right with God, and I'm right with the people I love, and the people I love are right with me."
Asked about congressional action in the Terri Schiavo case, a particularly important event for the religious right, Thompson responded: "That's going back in history. I don't remember the details of it." However, as armchair pundits are screaming that Thompson is a disappointment, says Ornstein, "he has not exactly plummeted in the polls."
Thompson's role of a lifetime
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Fred and Terri tar baby dailies 2...
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"Pro-life" apparently doesn’t mean pro-life. Fred Thompson has received the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee even though he doesn’t favor a human life amendment to the Constitution, didn’t favor Terri Schiavo’s right to life during his November 4 NBC “Meet the Press” appearance, and once lobbied for a pro-abortion group.
One conservative news service claims that Thompson has a 100 percent pro-life voting record. In fact, he got only 86 percent in the 105th Congress.
Even more significant, Thompson has now flip-flopped on one of the most important issues of our time―whether disabled people should have the right to life.
At a November 13 news conference at which the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) announced its endorsement of Thompson for president, NRLC executive director David N. O’Steen said, in response to my questions, that Thompson had provided “some clarifications” of his controversial “Meet the Press” remarks and that he now favors the right to life of disabled people like Terri Schiavo.
Flip-Flopping Fred Thompson and the Right to Life
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