SO WILL FRED THOMPSON CLAIM HE'S AS SENILE AS McCAIN-- OR JUST LYING? IT'S OFFICIAL: HE WAS A PRO-CHOICE LOBBYIST

A couple weeks ago, the semi-campaign of GOP lobbyist Fred Thompson became hysterical when the L.A. Times revealed he worked as a lobbyist for pro-choice groups. I couldn't believe how fast and insistent the pushback from the right was! Turns out they were as full of crap as we assumed.

Tomorrow's NY Times has a well-researched piece by Jo Becker that exposes Thompson for what he is. As much as he will swear up and down that he never, never worked to further abortion, he did cash those checks for his lobbying services. What a whore! Maybe he should get together with David Vitter.

Billing records show that former Senator Fred Thompson spent nearly 20 hours working as a lobbyist on behalf of a group seeking to ease restrictive federal rules on abortion counseling in the 1990s, even though he recently said he did not recall doing any work for the organization.

According to records from Arent Fox, the law firm based in Washington where Mr. Thompson worked part-time from 1991 to 1994, he charged the organization, the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, about $5,000 for work he did in 1991 and 1992. The records show that Mr. Thompson, a probable Republican candidate for president in 2008, spent much of that time in telephone conferences with the president of the group, and on three occasions he reported lobbying administration officials on its behalf.

Mr. Thompson’s work for the family planning agency has become an issue because he is positioning himself as a faithful conservative who is opposed to abortion.

Earlier this month, Mr. Thompson disputed accounts by the group’s former president and others, saying through a spokesman that he had “no recollection” of doing anything to aid the group’s efforts to overturn a rule banning federally financed clinics from dispensing information about abortion to pregnant women. At most, said Mr. Thompson’s spokesman, Mark Corallo, he “may have been consulted by one of the firm’s partners who represented this group.”

Two weeks ago the Thompson shills were screeching "never, never, never" would their man have done such a dastardly thing. Today it's more like lawyers often consult on matters "even when they personally disagree with the issue.” Uh huh... and Wendy Cortez Yow was repulsed when Vitter dressed up in diapers and did his filthy thing-- but she kept taking the money for three years. Wendy and Freddy have something in common-- the world's oldest profession.

Now that he needs votes from the radical right to win the GOP nomination, he's pandering to the extremists who want to ban abortion (not to mention sex). "But his record on abortion has not always been as clear cut. In questionnaires Mr. Thompson answered during his 1994 Senate campaign, for instance, he checked a box stating that he believed abortion should be legal under any circumstances during the first three months of pregnancy and said, 'I do not believe that abortion should be criminalized.' He has also opposed a constitutional amendment banning all abortion, also on the grounds of states’ rights." Another flip-floppin' Republican pander bear.