Fred Thompson Gets Mad
18 January 2008Joel Achenbach over at the Washington Post’s “The Trail” Blog has some of Thompson’s reaction to the Huckabee push polling incident…
PROSPERITY, S.C. — You rarely see Fred Thompson get too riled about anything, but steam was near about shooting from his ears today when he heard at a campaign stop that some of his supporters had received “push poll” calls from a group supporting Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.
At a steak house in this small town west of Columbia, a man in the small crowd told Thompson that many people had gotten such calls in the past 24 hours. Thompson asked anyone who had received such a call to raise his or hand. At least a dozen hands shot up. The former senator said he’d heard of push polls accusing him of supporting partial birth abortion.
“They’re taking the most outrageous, easily disproved things that they can come up with. It’s amazing to me. Its so ham-handed,” Thompson said. “I had a 100 percent pro-life voting record over 8 years.”
Trey Taylor, 41, told The Post that he’d gotten a call in which, after he’d revealed his preference for Thompson, a recorded voice said Thompson had lobbied on behalf of a “radical” pro-abortion organization. The recording then cited Huckabee’s anti-abortion record.
Speaking with reporters, Thompson looked like he was ready to strip the bark off Huckabee. He suggested that Huckabee isn’t trying to “win the legitimate way” by focusing on the issues. At the most recent debate, he said, “I confronted him man to man, with regard to the issues. This is the response I get.”
Thompson said he expects the governor of South Carolina to respond to the push polling. The state, he said, has gotten a “bad rap” for nasty campaign tactics in the past. This time, he said, “The only one I know that’s doing any negative campaigning here is the Huckabee people.”
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on January 18th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Yikes! Fred is out of his mind to say that Huckabee is doing all the negative campaigning! Everyone knows it is him doing the negative campaigning.
on January 19th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Really………… I haven’t seen or heard Fred say anything negative. Hmmmmmmmm…. What have you heard and from where?
on January 19th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Oh just for information…….. My aunt received a call FROM HUCKABEE’S people telling her lies about Thompson. She got the same thing as mentioned above in the blog. Hmmm….. ponder on that. Might need to rethink what you said and rethink who you should vote for. If he is lieing already it will only get worse.