Posted on 11/04/2007 8:05:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Fred Thompson Defends Campaign Adviser With Criminal Record
Sunday , November 04, 2007
Fred Thompson said Sunday that he wishes he had known earlier that one of his key presidential campaign advisers pleaded guilty to drug charges but he still thinks Phil Martin is "a good man."
Martin, a businessman who has lent Thompson his Cessna to fly around the country, is one of four campaign co-chairman for the '08 Republican candidate. The Washington Post reports Sunday that Martin also posted a guilty plea in 1979 for selling 11 pounds of marijuana and a no contest plea in 1983 for cocaine trafficking and conspiracy.
Judgment was withheld on the first plea while Martin served out probation. The 1983 charges, along with a felony bookmaking charge, came while he was still serving that probation. Martin's probation was extended and he served no jail time.
Thompson, who's not the first candidate this year to be linked to a donor with a criminal past, seemed to brush off the news.
"You are talking about something that happened in his life, I guess, 25 years ago ... when he was in his 20s," Thompson said. "I wish I had known about it a little bit earlier. Phil, I am sure, knows that he should have told me about this. That he thought (it) was over and done with and forgotten about I am sure. But of course nothing is ever over and done with and forgotten about in this business."
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LOL...PERFECT.
I would appreciate it if you would explain what you mean by these comments. Explain what the split vote means. What took place, what were the dynamics involved and what were his votes that you are addressing?
Please expand on your comments. As you have stated them they sound vague and detached.
I don’t mind you making a point, but most of what you posted is just conjecture, or something I have no way of assessing.
Aw, Fred-heads can stand any and all scrutiny of their candidate and his associates. The truth and an amiable dog-faced, dour old soul with a growl is on their side. They stand tall in the saddle, right?
So if 50.01 per cent of the voters of a state says the planned murder of the most helpless is okay, Thompson would do nothing to save even one life!
I can not understand any person who would compromise with the planned murder of the most helpless!
LOL! Have you read all of the posts yet?
Some do, some... not so much.
Many will miss that FACT that Fred’s integrity derives from a natural tendency of transparency before the public. If he has been mislead, he will deal with it just as publicly. To make such a public comment of ‘I need to look at this because I must do the right thing’ is a mark of integrity. Contrast that with the clinton slugs and the DNC goon squad of dissemblers and liars.
Would you please quit being so obtuse? If you have a specific incident or a vote you wish to object to, please explain what the heck took place. So far you are making statements that I can’t judge on their face value. Mention a specific incident and we’ll address it.
I’m not trying to give you a hard time, I just want to deal with a real tangible incident, and not general blanket comments.
I like it!
Yes, the guilt by association game will be played. It will be one game that will have to played honestly. Because of his desire to treat issues with honesty, Fred Thompson is correct to defend his friend, Martin. The man has turned his life around.
It is a fallacy of logic to think a person is the same throughout their entire life. People change. The MSM will continue to cast Martin as an undesirable by focusing on a distant past while ignoring his recent life. This is a trick. It is also a tactic to deflect focus on the cast of unsavory characters surrounding the Hillary machine. We have to judge people by what they are doing now.
I’m not that new, and sometimes harsh words are called for.
LOL, I honestly never knew the screen name existed. Good to meet ya.
Member since 2/15/07. That's not bad,but it's new.
A personal insult is not needed if you have a valid point you could make instead.
Oh, and welcome to FreeRepublic, nOOb! ;^)
Hunter, on the other hand was accused of being directly involved in the house banking thingy. I'll not judge if the accusations against Hunter were justified or not, but surely you can see the difference?
The Thompson campaign has not violated any campaign finance laws, unlike the HRC campaign. And if all of a sudden we have a problem with people getting loaded when they were younger, then, we better take a hard look at the dem’s choice for first lady, Bill Clinton, mister I did not inhale bozo.
I have a little test for myself when stuff like this comes up. I ask myself, "What if it was the opposition?" Frankly, I wouldn't give a good doodley-squat if a Liberal opponent's supporter was a guy who'd been busted for weed and coke dealing 24 years ago. I'd sneer at Conservatives who used it as some sort of condemnation of the Liberal opponent, and it would hold no water for me. I'd say, "That's not only weak, it's shallow and grasping."
They could have dug this up on a confederate of Romney or Clinton or Rudy or Obama, and I'd say the same thing. It's podunk, stupid and irrelevant.
On foxnews tomorrow, it will be all Carl Camaron all the time..going on and on and on and on and on and on and on....about this guy Martin.....
From Gary Aldrich’s book on his time in the Clinton White House, many of the staff never were vetted for a security clearance, many had used drugs. Which would probably make them ineligible for a security clearance.
I admire Fred’s conduct today and the way he handled it. We don’t know how this will all turn out. Martin should have told him, but also Martin is not going to need a security clearance at the White House, he won’t be working in the White House. Fred did really good today.
I’m of a mind that if he turned his life around and rehabilitated himself, that should have an impact.
I love how you are taking things out of context. Fred knew him since the 90’s. Apparantly all of his drug dealings were 10 years before that. Learn to read.
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