When He Was Pro Choice Before He Got All Anti Abortion
From the Fred Thompson page at OnTheIssues, on abortion:
"Has never been pro-choice despite 1994 news reports
Some news reports from Thompson's 1994 campaign classified him as pro-choice. Thompson confesses to being perplexed over the confusion about his position on the issue: "I have read these accounts [about me being pro-choice] and tried to think back 13 years ago as to what may have given rise to them, although I don't remember it."
Funny how they have such bad memories. From the LA Times:
"Thompson lobbied for abortion-rights group, it says - A spokesman for the GOP presidential hopeful says he did no such work. An ex-colleague calls the denial 'bizarre.'
Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning for president as an antiabortion Republican, accepted an assignment from a family-planning group to lobby the first Bush White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according to a 1991 document and several people familiar with the matter.
A spokesman for the former Tennessee senator denied that Thompson did the lobbying work. But the minutes of a 1991 board meeting of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Assn. say that the group hired Thompson that year.
His task was to urge the administration of President George H. W. Bush to withdraw or relax a rule that barred abortion counseling at clinics that received federal money, according to the records and to people who worked on the matter."
Of course, he could claim he was only in it for the money, that'll help.
"Has never been pro-choice despite 1994 news reports
Some news reports from Thompson's 1994 campaign classified him as pro-choice. Thompson confesses to being perplexed over the confusion about his position on the issue: "I have read these accounts [about me being pro-choice] and tried to think back 13 years ago as to what may have given rise to them, although I don't remember it."
Funny how they have such bad memories. From the LA Times:
"Thompson lobbied for abortion-rights group, it says - A spokesman for the GOP presidential hopeful says he did no such work. An ex-colleague calls the denial 'bizarre.'
Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning for president as an antiabortion Republican, accepted an assignment from a family-planning group to lobby the first Bush White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according to a 1991 document and several people familiar with the matter.
A spokesman for the former Tennessee senator denied that Thompson did the lobbying work. But the minutes of a 1991 board meeting of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Assn. say that the group hired Thompson that year.
His task was to urge the administration of President George H. W. Bush to withdraw or relax a rule that barred abortion counseling at clinics that received federal money, according to the records and to people who worked on the matter."
Of course, he could claim he was only in it for the money, that'll help.
posted by nolocontendere at 1:10 AM
2 Comments:
this dude is one scary mf. i'm appalled at how many americans think along the lines of "FINALLY--a TRUE conservative."
And it's all a typical phony stage play neener, with yet another actor playing the part of a "man's man" to appeal to the authoritarian suck ups. A lot's been said about how the MSM goes all gaga with man crush
when Sockpuppet plays dress up or Thompson growls a little. Fortunately he's an ignorant shitbag who will be laughed off the stage. My bet is still that Giuliani get's selected by the shadow government.
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