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Posted on 07/15/2007 9:49:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Political analysts widely regard Fred Thompson as a potential, if not likely, candidate in the United States presidential election in 2008. Thompson is a lawyer, lobbyist, character actor and former Republican Senator for Tennessee now residing in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C.
A recent article in The New York Times (NYT) labelled his wife, Jeri Kehn Thompson as a "trophy wife" and a potential liability in the 2008 race. The NYT article described her as having "youthfulness, permanent tan and bleached blonde hair" and wonders if "so-called values voters" would "accept this union."
Thompson and Kehn, married in June 2002, when he was 60 years old and she 35.
Television commentator and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough compared Kehn to a stripper and asked if "she works the pole."
According to the Associated Press, "trophy wife" originally "meant the second (or third) wife of a corporate titan, a woman who was younger, beautiful and — equally important — accomplished in her own right."
ABC News says that the current definition of "trophy wife" suggests Donald Trump's ex-wife Marla Maples and the late Anna Nicole Smith as examples.
However, ABC News also questions whether Kehn fits this definition. "Though she's blond, beautiful and nearly 25 years younger than her husband, Kehn Thompson, a political media consultant who previously worked for the Senate Republican Conference and a prestigious Washington law firm, doesn't appear to fit the typical description," wrote Emily Friedman.
Karen O'Connor, a political scientist and the director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University, said Thompson may lose support from Republican women, a group he needs. It may also make it difficult to gain the support of the "value voters", who already looking with skepticism when it was revealed he lobbied for an abortion-rights group.
"You have a situation where a candidate happens to have an attractive wife, therefore it’s open season for smutty thoughts and lowbrow humor, and no concern for the fact that this is a wife and mother, a professional woman?" said Mark Corallo, a former Justice Department official who is a consultant and the chief media adviser to the Thompson campaign. "One picture on the Internet and all of a sudden she’s reduced to being a bimbo?"
“Pundits”? I thought only Susan Estrogen was upset at the age difference.
As I recall, when ole Bill was found to have a wandering willie, he got that “atta boy” vote as well as votes from a huge number of women who seemingly wanted to use their kneepads too.
However, let at Republican have a young, attractive wife....
I’m really getting sick of this $hit. We aren’t to be voting for his wife. Shows how much they fear the man as they cannot find anything to stick against him, so they attack his wife. Cheap shots.
I may become a FredHead....
Why are Africans concerned about Fred Thompson’s wife?
I don’t hear a lot of hub bub for Dennis Kucinch’s new wife. She’s a babe.
It would seem that the libs and the LSM have no mud they can throw onto Fred himself, so they are trying to hit his wife. All this while ignoring the reality of John Edwards wife’s unofficial candidacy for the WH (she’s promising that her husband will pander to the Homosexual lobby).
Now if he had cheated on his first wife with her or with anyone one else for that matter then I would be taking up this issue.
Funny there is no word from or about his first wife. What happen to her? Did she passed away or were they divorced.
Picture?
I've never seen any pictures of Fred's wife on the internet. Are there some?
“Political pundits debate Fred Thompson’s younger wife”
I bet she wins.
Seriously, who cares about his wife? That’s an asinine MSM distraction that has not thing one to do with his real politics. No, I won’t vote for him not because of his wife, but because I don’t trust him to deliver for conservatives. Anyone fool enough to vote for a minimum wage increase, to vote for McCain-Feingold, and to push Lamar Alexander—and then John McCain—for President simply cannot be a constitutionalist conservative.
Very few, but they’re all good. I’ll leave others to the task since I’m in EDT and off to bed.
Actually, she has stated that she would campaign for his presidential campaign.
That kinda tells me what kind of man he is, that his ex-wife is willing to campaign for him.
They were divorced. She seems to still like him.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/26/75149.shtml
It's a shell news site. They just snagged it "From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!"
“Funny there is no word from or about his first wife. What happen to her? Did she passed away or were they divorced.”
Guess you don’t read too many Fred threads...
If she is a trophy, then it would be one that you would hide in the back of your closet. Isn’t that a scary thought....
If she was older than Fred, they’d be debating that, and if she was the same age, they’d be debating that too.
I have read numerous Fred threads, but don’t recall any ex-wife info.
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