I was just reading this story about Fred Thompson having billed some hours back in 1990 working on behalf of Libyan terrorists who were implicated in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. It occurred to me... hey, this is something Democrats should really get out in front of. Some Democratic candidate ought to put out a statement saying something like this:
"Fred Thompson understands that Islamist jihadi terrorists have an an absolute right to have their day in court, to be presumed innocent, and to receive competent legal counsel. That's the American Way. Anything else would be clearly unconstitutional. And that's why I join the ACLU and the Democratic Party in saluting Fred Thompson for standing up to give terrorists a helping hand when they needed one. Good job, Senator Thompson."
The great thing about this is it's absolutely true. He didn't do a thing wrong. We should make a point of telling every paranoid xenophobic anti-constitutional Republican voter that we think so.