Did you start the rumor?
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Posted on 04/16/2007 6:39:22 AM PDT by veronica
If voters on the right think Rudy Giuliani's love life is too racy, what will they think about Fred Thompson? The former Tennessee senator, who is considering his own run for the GOP nomination, was a swinging single during most of his eight-year tenure in the Senate, making him a favorite of gossip columnists, who often referred to him as the "Tennessee Stud."
Just weeks after winning his first campaign for the Senate in 1994, Thompson was spotted waltzing with country singer Lorrie Morgan, who dated him for more than a year. "He's a wonderful man. He's very special to me - he really understands me," Morgan said at the time, telling reporters they had even considered marriage.
But alas, it wasn't meant to be. By 1996, they were splitsville. One reason: she didn't like dressing the part of a conservative Republican. ("Get that basic black dress out of the closet," Morgan wrote in her 1997 autobiography, "Forever Yours, Faithfullly." "And no cleavage, baby!")
But Hollywood Fred, as he is sometimes known, was no lonely heart. Over the years, Thompson was linked to plenty of other woman around Washington, including GOP pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick (now Conway) and fund-raiser Georgette Mosbacher.
In 2000, his love life got a little messy, spilling onto the pages of the New York Post's famed Page Six. His then-girlfriend (and future wife) Jeri Kehn complained to Page Six that "all these women" were constantly gunning for her man. "They just won't leave him alone," Kehn told the paper. "I can't get up to get a cocktail at a party without coming back and finding some girl sitting in my chair."
Kehn, who inisisted she was dating Thompson, singled out one lady in particular: then-Time magazine columnist Margaret Carlson. "She won't get the hint he has a girlfriend," Kehn complained. "She calls his apartment all the time. I mean, what is the deal with these woman? Don't they have any pride? It's a joke all over Washington that Margaret has a huge crush on him. And Fred clearly is not interested." Mee-ow!
At the time, Carlson refused to comment, but Thompson, clearly unhappy with Kehn's outburst, issued a terse statement to The Washington Post. "I don't generally comment on these matters," he said. "But as it relates to statements made about my friend Margaret Carlson, there's not a bit of truth to them. I should be so lucky." Thompson married Kehn in 2002, and they now have two young kids. A
pparently Carlson, who is now a columnist for Bloomberg News, still likes Thompson, in spite of the dustup. Carlson, who did not respond to an e-mail from Newsweek inquiring about the matter, was spotted on "Hardball" with Chris Matthews last week, swooning over a potential Thompson candidacy. "He's handsome, he's charming, he sounds like a president-. He's smart, he's articulate, he knows his line, he can hit his mark," Carlson said, predicting that he'll jump in to the 2008 race soon. "For the press, he would be the new McCain because he does seem honest and open."
Just make sure that you’re not denying Fred Thompson something which you wouldn’t deny yourself of. In other words, if you were single for 18 years, you would want to date around too. To blast Fred for having a dozen or so girlfriends over a 17 year period (all while he was single, no less) makes your side and argument weak.
And a lot of these women he’s (allegedly) dated look young, but they’re older than many Rudy supporters had hoped. Kellyanne Conway is no spring chicken, for instance. There’s no birth year for her that I could find, but she started college in 1985, so she presumably was born in 1966/67.
Since when has it been unacceptable or taboo for a 60 year old man to date a 40 year old woman?
>Honestly, we have better things to talk about. Meow!<
Only when it’s about the other guy, right?
Hardly! LOL! It was around in 1994 and before.
If this is intended as a hit piece, it’s a weak attempt. How is a single man supposed to find a wife if he doesn’t date? If this is the worst dirt the MSM can dig up on Fred Thompson, he’s lived a pretty clean life. More points in his favor, IMO.
Was he married when he dated those women? No.
Did he dump his wife and try to kick her out of the house while he was dating those women? No. Did he dump his wife, using an official press conference to tell her, and try to kick his wife AND KIDS out of the house while trying to move into the house the woman that he was committing adultery with? No.
Your attempts to associate Fred Thompson with Giuliani's sleaze are obvious. It's not going to work. Tearing down a conservative (no, he's not the most conservative Senator out there) to make a liberal candidate look better on this conservative forum should not be tolerated. Knock it off.
Your math's off a bit: Twenty-five years old in 1967 was not too old for Vietnam.
LOL. You are funny.
It also says a lot about Fred Thompson’s patience, which Rudy apparently has little of.
Rudy couldn’t go more than a year or two his entire life without being married. In my book, that’s a serious weakness.
I mean, we’re all individuals, right? Just how needy does one have to be to constantly have to have someone else with him/her all the time?
Rudy just seems seriously dependent, like he can’t properly function or be effective unless he’s surrounded by tons of other people.
Yes, it’s shocking that an attendee at the 10th Annyal Screen Actors Guild Award would dress like a movie star!
Her come the Fredophobes.
I have seen this rumor online three times. While I find it very difficult to believe, here are your links. I agree that if it is true, it completely changes things.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/03/the_case_for_fred_thompson.html
Scroll down for the words: Thompson has a skeleton in his closet. Their have been persistent rumors ...
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/03/hagel_vs_obama_what_a_dream.html
Scroll down for: Jack, I don't see it happening for Fred Thompson....
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/26/163430/711
Scroll down for: will fred thompson answer the question if ...
Hope this helps.
LOL. You are a liberal P.O.S.
Operative word SINGLE!
I hope Fred runs......but what is more important is who he would pick for VP. If his cancer (God forbid) came back (and it’s a good chance it might), we’d have a new President.
I agree that no matter what- all the serious candidates will get raked over the coals by the media.
Prrt of that is good and necessary...some of it it slimy!
how about if a couple is having sex outside the bonds of marriage, as Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan did. Is that immoral???
Is there anyone you want slime?
Whew, could we imagine first lady Lorrie Morgan?!!
I am sure they can all take it. Anyone who can’t is not strong enough to run. And so far I don’t see anyone without guts yet.
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