Posted on 06/25/2007 12:34:59 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
Republican Fred Thompson, who likes to cast himself in the role of Washington outsider, has a long history as a political insider who earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government.
As a lobbyist for more than 20 years, billion-dollar corporations paid Thompson for his access to members of Congress and White House staff. During that time he was close to two Senate majority leaders, both from his home state of Tennessee - his political mentor Howard Baker and, more recently, his former colleague Bill Frist.
During Baker's tenure, Thompson lobbied for a savings-and-loan deregulation bill that helped hasten the industry's collapse and a failed nuclear energy project that cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars.
More recently, while Frist led the Senate, Thompson earned more than $750,000 lobbying for a British reinsurance company that wanted to limit its liability from asbestos lawsuits.
That history as a Washington insider is at odds with the image Thompson has sought to convey to voters. When he first ran for the Senate in 1993, Thompson cast himself in the part of the gruff, plainspoken everyman, leased a red pickup truck and drove around Tennessee in his shirt sleeves.
Now, as he considers an expected run for president in 2008, the actor-politician continues to position himself as a political outsider.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Your original post was intended to say what then?
Whatever it was, you won’t back it up now...
Sounds like he sucked as a lobbyist to me!
No, just good old fashioned ambulance chasing...
Not Ron Paul? LOL
>>>Your original post was intended to say what then?
Topic linking.
>>>Whatever it was, you won’t back it up now...
Back what up?
Yes...amazing coincidence, no?
One from the DNC playbook in reverse...
“So, how hard was it to give up lesbian prostitution Mrs. Clinton?”
NewsMax and Hannity...
The implications in your link...
Yeah, I knew the (Catholic) Mr. Hannity was Rootie Frootie. I disregard NewsMax and can only tolerate so much of Mr. Hannity. He’s just such a cheerleader (and not much else).
Fred Thompson is the right man at the right time for the right reasons.
It just seems that there’s a game going on here: Make a statement. When called on it, become wide-eyed and innocent. When pressed, answer with nonsense, repeatedly.
My link is well researched and supported.
Heh, heh, heh...exactly!
Speaking of which... how does a Catholic square with an abortionist these days, while the Vatican is telling them not to take communion???
I like a man who knows where he stands and why...
That goes for you and Thompson!
I remember when FR was a “conservative” site....LOL
You are exactly right... And if you won’t bend to the will of Rudy or Paul lovers, somethings wrong with ya!
Thank You!!!
and it is intended to say what? when posted on this thread?
I also want to know how Fred Thompson can successfully create some decent “political coattails” in order to help elect some decent conservatives to other ‘08 political offices while Fred Thompson is trying to win the ‘08 Presidency. Right now, all of the “pro-Shamnesty for illegal immigrants” politicians are badly damaging both major political parties, and I still don’t see how the Republican Party and even conservative politicians in general will truly be able to successfully recover in time to greatly succeed on November 4, 2008.
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