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Fred Thompson Thrived as [EVIL implied] Lobbyist
NewsMax ^ | June 25, 2007 2:49 p.m. EDT | Ass. Press

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: backstabbing; dirtypolitics; elections; fredthompson; rino
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To: Calpernia

Not on it.... on you.

EXPOSED yet again!


81 posted on 06/25/2007 4:34:36 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Not for all that went to the thread ;)

And from the views, and freep mails, they have :D

Bump again.


82 posted on 06/25/2007 4:36:15 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: TaxxMann
It's "Climbocleptosemia"...

This is where their brains become so much a part of their butts, their bowels don't know which way to move...

83 posted on 06/25/2007 5:00:36 PM PDT by xcamel ("It's Thompson Time!")
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To: Calpernia

Hunter troll?


84 posted on 06/25/2007 5:40:43 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

If you would like to call me that, sure.


85 posted on 06/25/2007 5:53:43 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

Whatever you like dear...

Hunter is my favorite unelectable candidate too.


86 posted on 06/25/2007 6:36:56 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

We shall see.


87 posted on 06/25/2007 6:52:59 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

I think we can see already.... some of us anyway.

USA Today/Gallup Poll 6/13/2007

Rudy Giuliani 29%
Fred Thompson 21%
John McCain 20%
Mitt Romney 8%
Mike Huckabee 3%
Tommy Thompson 2%
***Duncan Hunter 2%***
Sam Brownback 2%
Ron Paul 2%
Tom Tancredo 1%
Jim Gilmore 1%
Chuck Hagel 1%
Unsure 8%

like I said, my favorite of the unelectables...


88 posted on 06/25/2007 7:04:36 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican
Oh Goody. I love Gallup Poll references :)


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No conflict of interest there (/s)


89 posted on 06/25/2007 7:29:25 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: PlainOleAmerican; Clara Lou

Hannity is definitely on the Giuliani bandwagon.

I never got that impression from NewsMax:
http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Rudy_Giuliani.shtml


90 posted on 06/25/2007 7:40:50 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Calpernia

Pick any current poll you like....

I picked the most current I could find quickly.

Is there any national poll that shows Hunter “in the race”?

Ross Perot had much more support, ten times as much in ‘92 and six times as much in ‘96. In both cases, he had just enough support to get Clinton elected with a popular minority vote.

Are you old enough to have learned that lesson?


91 posted on 06/25/2007 8:11:39 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: calcowgirl

NewsMax has been friendliest towards Giuliani.


92 posted on 06/25/2007 8:13:09 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: Czar; Borax Queen
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.

Affiliated with the Council on the Foreign Relations and lobbying, to boot ping!

93 posted on 06/25/2007 8:14:44 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: PlainOleAmerican
I like these poles. They're pretty.


94 posted on 06/25/2007 8:17:45 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

Thanks for the link, Cal...I’ll be checking that out.


95 posted on 06/25/2007 8:19:18 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: PlainOleAmerican
I have it from a pretty good source that the DNC is flooding these conservative threads with Trolls, Moles and Shills.

My source tells me that some of these trolls have been hiding among the conservative membership since before the 2004 election like snakes under a rock waiting to strike when given the order.

The main idea is to cast doubts about conservative candidates and cause havoc among conservative members.

96 posted on 06/25/2007 8:20:24 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, DUNCAN or THOMPSON 08, ELECTION 2008, MOST IMPORTANT OF MY LIFE TIME)
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To: nicmarlo

It is an eyefull.

Don’t forget the cover up that came with the contras through the Kerry Committee. The archives are now open :)


97 posted on 06/25/2007 8:20:54 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

Does your mommy know you’re still up at this hour?


98 posted on 06/25/2007 8:21:47 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

My mommy is sleeping.


99 posted on 06/25/2007 8:22:41 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

Thank you...I’ll be bookmarking it tonight to read later this week.


100 posted on 06/25/2007 8:25:09 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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