Comments on: Fred Prosecuted My Poor, Downtrodden Co-Liquorists!

by: Blogs For Fred Thompson

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:44:17 +0000

Fred Files Morning Briefing: 11.19.07…

Morning Briefing: 11.19.07 -

45 Days until the Iowa Caucuses
61 Days until the South Carolina Primary
64 Days until the New Hampshire Primary (tentative)

Larry Kudlow:

Speaking of limited government and budget overspending, I asked if a President T…

by: Anwyn

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:36:07 +0000

Right on. That whole area had a very long holdover regarding moonshine. I’m sure some people still (hah) make it today. And yeah, re Giuliani, he spent more time in the office and seemed to make it his career, where as far as I see it was more or less one stop among several different job paths for Thompson. Big difference.

by: Gib

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:23:36 +0000

Any prosecutor’s record also needs to be evaluated against the backdrop of the community he works in. This line might help explain Thompson’s apparently shaky record against moonshiners:

But more than anything, Thompson took on the state’s moonshiners and a local culture, rooted in Tennessee’s hills and hollows, that celebrated the independent whiskey maker’s battle against the government’s revenue agents.
Sounds to me like Thompson was working in an area that didn’t necessarily consider moonshining to be that bad a crime, which means cases of that nature are more likely to result in dismissals or acquittals. Based purely on the numbers, it doesn’t sound like Thompson’s perfomance was that bad. Nothing that would make him want to try and compare prosecutor war stories with Guiliani, but he sounded worthy of the job.

by: A. Weasel

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:41:58 +0000

Good Work Anwyn.
I think you can relax for while about the whole “lightweight” blog thing.

by: Brad

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:17:45 +0000

Fantastic post! Thanks!