The Daily Background
| Oops: Fred confuses CIVIL unions with the SOVIET Union
by Arlen Parsa
A brief anecdote about Fred Thompson on the campaign trail in my home state of New Hampshire:
Edward Paul, an employee of the Delta Dental Plans Association, asked the question Monday, but had trouble being understood.
“I’m proud to say that in January 2008 New Hampshire has passed a law facilitating civil unions here. … What is your belief for federal civil unions to be passed?” Paul asked.
“Soviet Union?” Thompson responded.
“No, civil unions,” Paul said.
“Oh. No, I would not be in support of that,” Thompson said.
Paul said he wasn’t surprised, or impressed.
“I think he needs to do more homework on whatever state he’s in and I don’t think he did on that question,” said Paul. He said he is a registered independent who plans to vote in the Democratic presidential primary.
Yeah, this pretty much confirms everything we’ve heard about Thompson being lazy and not ready for prime-time. Kind of embarrassing, really.
Earlier:
Fred forgets that the Soviet Union hasn’t existed for almost 20 years.
Fred Thompson proves he knows very little about gay equality issues
Is it possible that Thompson simply had trouble clearly *hearing* the question?
Sure, maybe Thompson thought the man said “I’m proud to say that in January 2008 New Hampshire has passed a law facilitating Soviet Unions here. … What is your belief for federal Soviet Unions to be passed?”