I should have been more clear, though--by "making an issue of this" I don't mean we don't discuss abortion, but Thompson's stupid handling of this lobbying thing. He should admit he did it and move on. I'll take his prolife record over that of some other candidates any day.
There were several things that happened. The LA Times posted a story and Fred called the other person involved [John Sununu] and verified this. The original denial was based upon the original story, which was then changed to billing records. That was a different issue, the lobbying charge was that he lobbied John Sununu which he didn’t. Confusing the story and changing it and twisting it made it a problem to deal with and a problem for the campaign staff to handle. The ones we should be upset with were the reporters. I heard Fred talk about the Sununu question in an interview.
After all NARAL gives Fred a zero rating, if they thought he truly had been helpful in lobbying for this issue I doubt that rating would be zero.