Fred Thompson, lawyer for terrorists

Fred Thompson has a large and vocal following among Georgia Republicans. He’s a “real” conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan, they say.

I wonder what, if any response, the FredHeads will have to news that Thompson sold his legal expertise to a terrorist responsible for bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

From today’s NYTimes:

A little over three years after Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, Fred D. Thompson provided advice to a colleague about one of his law firm’s new clients: The man representing the two Libyan intelligence officials charged in the terrorist bombing.

And:

The firm was hired to provide guidance on the tense questions surrounding where the two men should be tried, Mr. Fleischaker said, and Mr. Thompson’s background as a former prosecutor, as well as his government relations experience — he had close ties to senior officials in the first Bush administration — “gave him insight on jurisdictional issues such as that.”

My question for Georgia’s FredHeads: What’s conservative and/or Reaganesque about selling your legal services to terrorists who blew up a civilian passenger jet packed with innocent Americans? Sen. Ted Kennedy’s wife RESIGNED HER PARTNERSHIP at her law firm when it accepted Libya as a client. Aren’t conservative Republicans looking for a candidate who’s at least as principled and tough on terrorism as Ted Kennedy’s wife?

The New Republic’s blog The Plank puts it in perspective:

In a political era in which the cost of a man’s haircut can be treated as though it were a window into his soul, you’d think people would be a little more curious what it says about Fred Thompson that he’d do workeven just 3.3 hours of itfor indicted terrorists.

Imagine what Limbaugh, Hannity and Boortz, as well as the Peach Pundit crowd, would be having with this story if Thompson were a Democrat.