Originally posted by: shinerburke
Here is a brief run down of Thompson.
He has lived in the South, East, and West
He earned his law degree in 1967
He was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney and served in that post from 1969 to 1972.
He has been involved in politics since the early 70's and was a key figure in bringing down a corrupt President.
Was instrumental in brining down a corrupt governor of Tennessee
Was a U.S. Senator from 1994 to 2003.
Here's some more info to add to Fred Thompson's resume.
Fred Thompson was Nixon's mole during Watergate.
During Watergate, as minority counsel to Republican Senator Howard Baker, Fred Thompson was the one who spilled Nixon's beans by asking Nixon aide, Alexander Butterfield whether there was a White House taping system. The nation was shocked when he confirmed that the system existed, and as the saying goes, the rest is history.
It turns out Thompson's objective was not to bring evidence to light about Nixon's criminality, but rather, to prove that he was innocent of the charges against him. Since he was a Republican, I can't fault him for that. What does bother me greatly is, Thompson did more than hope his man was innocent. He has since admitted that he was a mole for the Nixon Whitehouse, and he violated his ethical and legal responsibilities to the Committee and phoned Nixon's lawyer to tip the committee's hand the day before asking that history rocking question in the publicly televised hearings.
Thompson said in an interview, "In retrospect it is apparent that I was subconsciously looking for a way to justify my faith in the leader of my country and my party, a man who was undergoing a violent attack from the news media, which I thought had never given him fair treatment in the past," Thompson wrote. "I was looking for a reason to believe that Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, was not a crook."
I fear that, in the face of the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush, some people are still stupid enough repeat the same mistake and buy into another ethically challenged clown like Thompson, who acted unethically, surreptitiously, and illegally to help the worst criminal to hold the office of President in the our nation's history... UNTIL GEORGE W. BUSH.
Sooooo......clearly if you want to go by your criteria Thompson is far more qualified than Hillary.
Hillary's no prize. Thomson's no better. Why do we have to assume our choices are restricted to ethical dwarves and moral midgets? :roll: