Unlike Clinton’s fiasco, campaign finance laws were not violated..
Loyalty to a friend. Fred has once again proved himself to be a man of real character with a capital C. Compare this to the shabby way Rudy Giuliani has betrayed his business partner/boyfriend Bernard Kerik.
Go, Fred, go!!!
it is great to see Fred standing up to the MSM to defend his friend and supporter. Most importantly, it shows that Thompson in loyal and exposes the MSM and their thirst to dig up trivial details of the of the people on Fred’s team.
25 years ago and people want to bring this up?
Cue up the Duncan Hunter crew and let them once again tell us all how their guy is the only true conservative guy with 100% sterling credentials.
Martin should have made sure Thompson knew. When you involve yourself in a political campaign in any way shape or form you should think about these things and what they’ll mean for the candidate.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05022007/news/nationalnews/flighty_hill_changes_planes___constantly_nationalnews_ian_bishop.htm
FLIGHTY HILL CHANGES PLANES - CONSTANTLY
May 2, 2007 — WASHINGTON - Jet-setting Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton is a fussy frequent flier who used three different planes in a single day during a recent campaign swing through South Carolina.
The former first lady even grounded one aircraft - a chartered Gulfstream II - in Columbia, S.C., last Friday, demanding a swankier Gulfstream III replacement for a flight out west.
“She didn’t like the configuration of the cabin,” an aviation source familiar with Clinton’s travel told The Post.
And that was after the Gulfstream II pilot dropped Sen. Clinton off at the bustling commercial terminal rather than the secluded area for private planes, sources told The Post.
The Gulfstream III charter had to be scrambled from Westchester County to swoop into South Carolina and carry Clinton off to San Diego for the start of a two-day fund-raising trip to California, flight records show.
Clinton’s campaign did not immediately comment yesterday.
Clinton’s jet-capades began when she hopped aboard a Gulfstream II on Thursday afternoon that ferried her from Washington to Orangeburg for the first Democratic presidential debate at South Carolina State University.
That same plane brought her back to Washington that night, arriving just after 11:30 p.m., and then was sent back, with no passengers, 46 minutes later to await Clinton’s arrival back in South Carolina the next afternoon.
On Friday, she used a Hawker 800 private jet owned by the New York investment firm Gilder Gagnon Howe for a morning flight to Greenville, S.C., from Washington, after an 8 a.m. address at a New York teachers’ association gathering.
Gilder Gagnon Howe
http://www.secinfo.com/ds4Px.4F99u.htm
Slick Willard would have thrown him under the bus, backed over him a few times, pulled him out from under there, and then thrown him under some other bus.
Fred Ping!
I love the way Thompson lays it on the line— no dancing around. He’s my friend, and he’s going to stay my friend. FDT is not going to remake himself, a la Rudy McRomney, to win this election.
And I suppose Hillary was unaware of Sandy Burglar’s
criminal record when she brought him into her campaign.
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Like the ABS media will ask her ....
ABS: Agenda-Bias-Spin
Fred did good, his values continue to shine above political expediency. One could not have a better friend than Fred. However, Philip Martin should have let Fred know his past before becoming involved with Fred’s campaign. It will be interesting to see how this pans out, but I doubt seriously it will amount to a hill of beans.
The money driven, poll driven, fake popularity, name recognition, favorite son gives the voters a very stifled vote for POTUS.
The MSM/DNC/RNC picks of Hillary, Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Rudy, Romney, McCain and Thompson shows how our low, our party system has become a joke.
The above front runners should not be elected dog catcher.
1979, 1983
“You are talking about something that happened in his life, I guess, 25 years ago ... when he was in his 20s”
Yeah Fred, but they have to drag you down somehow so I’d expect a gigantic expose maybe on your grandfather or great-grandfather fighting for the Confederacy and how that makes your whole line racist.
I expect a hit piece on Bill Clintons’ activities in the 70’s and 80’s any day now.
Fodder for the anit-Fred’s. Nothing else.
Fred’s response regarding abortion was, IMHO, weak. Although his plan would be better than what we have, it would still result in many life-terminations. I could go as far as abortion only in the case of rape or incest, but leave it to the states? Weak! Even in the cases I mentioned, it is a choice between two pretty negative alternatives.
This says it all. It also says the media is trying to immunize the Hildebeast from activities she was involved in during her youthful days. Nice try.
Is this a story of a young man who was on the wrong track who eventually straightened up and flew right?
What’s the issue, then?
Glad you posted this. It shows the quality of Fred’s character in not abandoning a friend because of his youthful past. Question is, do we trust that Fred’s discernment of his friend is accurate? If he is being mislead and his friend is still into criminal activity, to bad for Fred because he will be tarred with that friend’s wrongs. If Fred is knowledgable of such criminality then he doesn’t need to be elected to run as the Republican candidate (I seriously doubt this possibility!). If the friend has rehabilitated himself, Fred is right to deflect this sty digging by the media, but should caution his friend and all campaign workers that their pasts will be found out during this opposition to the Rodham-rodent slime machine. Before this is over, if Fred gets the nomination, the slimey clinton goons could sink to trying to smear Fred more condom misuse while he was single. NOTHING of lowness is below the bellies of the clintons and their slugs.
That’s character with a capital C. Integrity, honesty, all those virtues in short supply as far as dems are concerned.