Margaret Carlson? I could believe Maureen Dowd (her younger version), she was kind of good looking. But Margaret Carlson? Hard to imagine why Thompson would have any connection with her to get to where they could have a relationship, and she’s not exactly the kind of woman you would go out of your way to have relations with.
Explaining further. I can imagine that a good conservative columnist might have enough contact with a conservative lawmaker that a relationship could develop not based on looks.
But I don’t know how an unattractive liberal columnist would ever get to where there was a relationship with a conservative lawmaker.