RedState: Pay No Attention to the Issue at hand; Look at my false accusation instead

There was an interesting piece on Redstate.org attacking our analysis of the National Right to Life Committee’s endorsement of Fred Thompson: “National Pro-life movement commits suicide“.

I want to start this entry by saying that I have nothing but the utmost respect for Erik Erickson and I am a regular visitor of Redstate.org. Our friends over at Redstate are simply wrong here.

Redstate Myth: Our blog and Mike Huckabee supporters have avoided answering the attacks on Mike Huckabee’s fiscal record.

Fact: Our Blog has been dedicated to combating the unfounded attacks on Mike Huckabee’s fiscal record.

Read Our Blog Posts on Fiscal Issues…

Mike Huckabee is the best Fiscal Conservative in the Top Tier

The Club’s Revenge…

The Mike Huckabee the Club for Growth Wants you to Forget

Other websites have offered their responses to the attacks on Governor Huckabee’s fiscal record.

Evangelical Outpost: Fiscally Flawed?

Rightsmart: Truthing about taxes and Huckabee

For RedState to say that we or other Huckabee supporters are dodging this issue is demonstrably false.

Redstate Myth: Our blog lied about or mislead about Fred Thompson’s abortion record. Fred Thompson does support the Republican Platform regarding abortion.

Fact: Our Blog is dedicated to providing readers with the truth and fair analysis. What we said on our blog is entirely accurate.

• Fred Thompson did score 86%, 77% and 33% on the National Right to Life Committee’s ratings. We were forthcoming and said that this was a result of his support for campaign finance reform, but nevertheless reiterated that this was an issue important to pro-lifers.
• Fred Thompson does not support the Republican Party’s platform on abortion. You can read the transcript from Tim Russert below.

“MR. RUSSERT: Let me ask you about an issue very important in your party’s primary process, and that’s abortion.MR. THOMPSON: Mm-hmm.

MR. RUSSERT: This is the 2004 Republican Party platform, and here it is: “We say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution,” “we endorse legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions.” Could you run as a candidate on that platform, promising a human life amendment banning all abortions?
MR. THOMPSON: No.
MR. RUSSERT: You would not?
MR. THOMPSON: No. I have always—and that’s been my position the entire time I’ve been in politics…”