Successful older men tend to like the younger ladies, and I can see how that would bother older women a lot.
And the GOP has a complete lock on secure married women? Don't count on it. The GOP has a bad habit of holding its own constituency in contempt. Conservative women generally vote GOP, but that may change. Everything changes. Even 34-yr-old single women become fortyish matrons.
Secure older ladies see a "do over" in this arrangement-- we meet them everyday. Much older men starting new families that they will probably not see graduate from high school. Fred is 64 and has an infant child. This is something that a conservative mother winces at because we are talking children that will like not have a father past their early teens.
And wolf-whistle at the wife, while deriding FR ladies for being "blue-nosed" about it...Don't take your base for granted.
Thompson is going to have to get middle-aged women since he won’t get the younger single women because they’re (mostly) Democrat bimbos. If older, married, Christian women vote for say Romney, there’s going to be trouble for Thompson. He probably can’t win the nomination if that happens. Evangelical men may not like the “Older-successful-man-with-the-trophy-wife” either.