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April 2006 photo, Kevin Wolf/The Associated Press Actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson, and his wife, Jeri, arrive for a party at the Macedonian Embassy in Washington after the White House Correspondents' Dinner April 29, 2006. Thompson also has two grown sons and five grandchildren."
According to the Gannett News Service, Jeri, a former GOP operative, is ready to go! "Here's another sign that Thompson is on the move: His wife Jeri, a former GOP PR operative, has been dusting off her old political reporter contacts list."
he could be married to a hamster and they wouldn't care. that stuff only matters to the "family values" crowd when they're talking about Democrats with the "family values" religiously insane constituency.
She and her husband seem to be fairly free of plastic surgery... this couple look their age and they look like they're in love. I'm surprised this snarky little thread wasn't shot down the second someone pointed out Dennis Kucinich's wife (31 yrs his junior) about whom there's been nothing but praise and positive words in this thread. Intruding into people's personal lives used to be a hallmark of Republican policy. The woman I date and love has a healthy mature pair of classic tear-drop shaped breasts and I think they're awesome. This agist, sexist, Republican-mimicking line of thought is the slimiest peice of unhumanistic garbage I've seen on DU in a long time.
they treated her as a power-grabbing, manipulative bitch. They even called her the "co-president", trying to insult Bills masculinity (he lets his wife make decisions) and her for being a "Feminazi" (as RWers like to call it). When Bush talks about how he always consults Laura, suddenly its a virtue and a sign of the strength of their marriage. And the fact that Thompson's wife is a political consultant who is using her contacts to propel her husband's career? But if you're the outspoken wife of John Kerry, or if you are the wife of a Presidential candidate and former VP candidate, and you happen to contract cancer, then watch out...
Someone is gonna try and tell me that age is just a number, blah, blah, blah, but all we have here is a transaction. She gets power, and he gets ass no man eligible for Medicare should have any legal right to. I appear closer in age to my 97 year old grandmother than these two appear. This looks like when a second marriage's last child goes to the prom with Dad.
When he says I'm not a real leader, I just play one on TV, all the followers will get in line and goose step behind. Maybe we can get Mel Brooks to run and he could do his singing Hitler imitation.
an actor who wowed us all in "Curly Sue" and "Baby's Day Out" to allow his highness to be persuaded that the Repub party needs and loves him. It's not too late for Hagel or Gingrich to jump on board at the last minute because they have already begun the groundwork, but Thompson hasn't. More importantly, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson has looked at Thompson's mixed record on abortion ans concluded "I dont think hes a Christian." It is too late for Thompson, and he was never that good of a candidate anyway.
with your status-quo affirmation that, in April 2007, it's already too late for anyone who doesn't have a corporate-money PR juggernaut up and running for an election 19 months from now. On the OP, obviously the trophy wife is an asset, media and Thompson supporters will treat it that way.
Since rumors of his candidacy have emerged, the only criticism of the guy you see at DU with any regularity is the age of his wife, which has jack fucking shit to do with his ability to govern. I'm sure the guy is unfit to be president, otherwise he would have left the GOP years ago, but why the fixation on his wife? We only help the GOP if we play their game of keeping political discourse mired in this sort of Rush-like puerile bullshit.
If The Loyal Bushie Party selects Thompson (and do not kid yourself that the Gullible Fools who follow the Loyal Bushies select anything), then the "base" (gullible idiots) will follow dog-like. Now, to ask what will Republics who AREN'T Loyal Bushies, say, is another matter.
Age shouldn't matter as long as the spouse is legal and capable of consent. There are plenty of age-diverse relationships here at DU, and many of us don't appreciate hearing that others consider our relationships to be creepy, sick or full of ulterior motives. such as Judi Nathan's past career, Rudy's divorce announcements to the press, Newt's service of divorce papers to his wife's hospital room, and so on!
I could not care less that his wife is attractive and young. My parents were 13 years apart and my mom was always fairly attractive - certainly enough for a "trophy wife" accusation. That's when you're scraping the bottom of the genetic barrel. His kids could be perfectly all right, but when people get to be a certain age, having children should be off limits.
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