There were 900 FBI files. I would be surprised that one of those happened to be Fred Thompsons, as opposed to one of the other 60 million conservatives in the country.
He divorced in 1985, and remarried in 2002. He could well have had affairs. He could have cheated on his first wife, but that would have been a long time ago (more than 20 years). He probably didn't cheat on his current wife, so I doubt his actions in the senate had anything to do with dirt about cheating.
I would want to know why he divorced, and whether he was sleeping around in the last 15 years or so. It's one of the things I like about Romney -- he's got what looks like a really clean life.
On the Mormon thing, yeah I got it. The news media is going to say Mormon in every broadcast though, in hopes of making him unacceptable to Evangelicals and Catholics. As time goes on, I'll research him more. Giuliani has about three good points and a lot of scary ones. I don't trust McCain and am not sure about his sanity. Hunter is still a non-entity, and I wonder if being a Representative that probably wouldn't even carry his home state would get the job done. Things can change, but right now I'm thinking Thompson, Romney, Rudy as last ditch and sit out if McCain is nominee.
The Rats would have a tough time making much hay about sexual dalliances of a single guy while he was divorced, unless they were maried women, hookers, Congressional pages, or about 6,000 of them. If there were 6,000, he'd win fans. I've always thought what hurt Clinton a lot was that Monica was staff and she was also sorta fugly. Okay face, but she had cankles. JFK did Marilyn. Billy Jeff did Monica.