After all this is Old Hat and Old News for the Republican Party and it's contenders! It's almost expected! Just another headline in a day in the life of a Republican.

How could the Republican party not know about this???Maybe is was okay if he sent money to fund the Contras or donated to the party.

This is not a misdemeanor...but mulitple felonies for drug traffiking. First Guiliani's SC chairman is caught dealing while in office, now this guy with a rap sheet is one of the top advisors?

Yes, they probably should have run a criminal background check and then not hired him, but... of all the reasons to vote for someone else instead, this has got to be among the most petty.

It's quite sad to see a couple of posts dragging Thompson's religion into it. I will expect to see plenty of these in the future.

It's just not Philip Martin's old drug arrests that's an issue here – he's also in tax trouble with both the IRS and the State of Tennessee:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3820598&page=1

This is America's brain on drugs..

What exactly are the issues again???

Go Fred

The Good News is seldom reported by the post as they have agenda to seek and destroy any thing that threatens the clinton campain. When they report they dig throught the dirt first.

My wise old MOM always told me if you can't say something nice about something then keep your mouth closed.

Focus on the real issues and you might be surprised how many Americans will be for Fred in 08. I know I don't know who I am voting for as of yet, but I
don't count Fred out. The canidates who preach out of both sides of the mounth have been droped from my mind however. You know if you don't stand for something you won't stand for nothing.

However, both races are fascinating and something dramatic is bound to occur in either or both parties.

Posted By P.J. midland TX. : November 5, 2007 5:10 pm

We're not talking about a low-lever "gofer" here, PJ. Philip Martin was part of Fred Thompson's "inner circle" as a top adviser, and he's also accused of tax evasion – and he hasn't paid his debt for that, yet.

And the tax evasion continues to this day.

But in all seriousness, he would be a heartbeat away, and not even this country should be so cynical as to entertain the idea of Thompson occupying national office. Why not Jesse Ventura, while we're at it.

As a judge, Alcee Hastings was impeached by a Democratic-controlled House for bribery and perjury; Nancy Pelosi voted for impeachment. But right now Alcee Hastings is a senior Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence where he chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

Yes, that's a mouthful, but the point is that leaders in your own party reward criminal acts of the highest nature with leadership positions of the highest nature.

Lets not forget about Marion Barry who was re-elected after being caught on video smoking crack with a street-hooker.

(And maybe the CNN Gestapo will leave my comment up this time!)

There's plenty of other hypocrisy around FT that we could focus on. God knows that if Obama ever worked as a lobbyist for two Libyans who eventually hijacked the PAnAm plane (like FT), we wouldn't hear the end of it from the self-righteous, god/allah-fearing, brown-skin-fearing right.

But hey, the double standard is no longer surprising and at the end of the day, it's not a big deal to reasonable, level-headed Americans who actually look for substance as opposed to sensationalism when examining the candidates.

Bushies have done worse, but they get appointed to cabinet positions.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Aug1999/081699/criminalclass1-081699.htm

"In recent years, members of Congress have gone to jail for child molestation, fraud and other charges.

Our research found 117 current and recent members of the House and Senate who have run at least two businesses each that went bankrupt, often leaving business partners and creditors holding the bag. Seventy-one of them have credit reports so bad they can't get an American Express card on their own (but as members of Congress, they get a government-issued Amex card without a credit check).

Fifty-three have personal and financial problems so serious they would be denied security clearances by the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy if they had to apply through normal channels (but, again, as members of Congress they get such clearances simply because they fooled enough people to get elected).

Twenty-nine members of current and recent Congresses have been accused of spousal abuse in either criminal or civil proceedings. Twenty-seven have driving while intoxicated arrests on their driving records. Twenty-one are current defendants in various lawsuits, ranging from bad debts, disputes with business partners or other civil matters.

Nineteen members of current and recent Congresses have been accused of writing bad checks, even after the scandal several years ago, which resulted in closure of the informal House bank that routinely allowed members to overdraw their accounts without penalty. Fourteen have drug-related arrests in their background, eight were arrested for shoplifting, seven for fraud, four for theft, three for assault and one for criminal trespass."

Yes, I never had any intention of ever voting for Fred Thompson, and if I needed evidence to say why, I'd list this firing.

Yet this man's occupation is now jepordized to some mistakes he made 20+ yrs ago and has since paid his debt to society.

a sad state of affairs...

Of all the reasons not to vote for Thompson, this is the least of them.

David Iglasius, a US attorney, was investigating Griffen for election fraud, until he was replaced... by Tim Griffen.

For more details, read "Armed Madhouse", by Greg Palast, well respected American reporter for Air America and the BBC.

We don't need more cheating, stealing, lying, and corruption in the mold of Fred Thompson, George Bush and Hillary Clinton.

Support Barack Obama, the only honest candidate running that has a chance of being the next leader of the free world.

Thompson, Griffen, and his ilk would take this country further down the dark path of dictatorship, fear and war.