Fuzzy memories

What is it about Republicans that they can't seem to remember anything? Oh yeah, it's that they're completely full of shit.

Fred Thompson, who is weighing a Republican presidential bid as a social conservative, "has no recollection" of performing lobbying work in 1991 for a family planning group that was seeking to relax an abortion counseling rule, a spokesman said Friday.

The Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site that Thompson was retained by National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association to lobby the administration of President George H.W. Bush to ease a regulation that prevented clinics that received federal money from offering any abortion counseling.

At the time, Thompson, a lawyer, worked as a lobbyist at Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, a Washington firm.

Does Thompson's claimed memory lapse pass the smell test, or could it be that he's distancing himself from part of his professional history that's not currently politically expedient? Do you think that if the 26 percenters suddenly shifted their view on abortion these memories would suddenly come rushing back, and Thompson would wear them like a medal?

Of course he would. Because Thompson is a typical Republican in that he's running for president to BE something, not to DO something (a trait that's not exclusive to Republicans, right Hillary?). And that means he will do or say anything, including pretending to forget jobs that The Base wouldn't approve of, to win the job. And that means he's the wrong person for the job.