[veronica]

I don’t think this is slime. Merely reporting the facts. Do you think Fred Thompson will escape scrutiny by the press? Is Rudy the only one running who should be fully covered here? Why are 10 year-old articles about Rudy relevant, but not 2 week-old articles about Fred Thompson-who I hope DOES run.

[xsmommy]

i think the point is it ISN’T slime, because he was SINGLE. serial adultery is a bit different than studly single oats sewing.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

You’re the slimer, trying to cause trouble posting reposts from nearly 2 weeks ago.

As for the press, scrutinize away. Nobody gives a rat’s donkey if Fred dated a bunch of hot chicks while he was single.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Just because they facts doesn't mean they are not being used to slime with.

They are trying to blur the line between a SINGLE man dating people and a MARRIED man cheating his wife. It's a trust thing.

So, it is slime/mud and Fred Thompson still has my vote.

[VRWCmember]

I don’t think this is slime. Merely reporting the facts. Do you think Fred Thompson will escape scrutiny by the press?

Perhaps a little analysis is in order. Consider the first "paragraph" of the article (if two sentences can constitute a paragraph).

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."

The first sentence suggests an equivalence -- or at least a comparison -- between Rudy's philandering and serial adultery with Thompson's love life, while the second sentence refers to Thompson as a "singing single" and references gossip about Thompson. While the rest of the article addresses a few facts about some of the successful and attractive men Thompson dated, the article is much more gossip and innuendo than it is "reporting the facts".

In closing, I think most men will look at a guy who dated (and apparently dumped) Lorrie Morgan much more favorably than a guy that fought to move his bimbo mistress into the mayoral mansion while he was going through a nasty divorce.

[MamaB]

There is a huge difference between being single and dating and being married and dating.

[jmc813]

Why are 10 year-old articles about Rudy relevant, but not 2 week-old articles about Fred Thompson-who I hope DOES run.

Why do you hope Fred runs?

[gogeo]

I don’t think this is slime. Merely reporting the facts. Do you think Fred Thompson will escape scrutiny by the press?

1) Yes, it is.

2) Selectively reporting the facts is not reporting the facts, but lying.

3) This isn't scrutiny, it's politically motivated gossip mongering. Who is any writer for Newsweek to be speculating on what the "right" will think?

I recognize the difference between "dating" while single, and "dating" when married...a distinction seemingly lost on you and Holly Bailey.