Is Jeri Kehn Thompson too hot for the White House? (Fred's wife)

Slate ^ | July 9, 2007 | Catherine Price

[nyconse]

There is nothing wrong with her dress. I wore a similar dress (Sea green/embroidered with little seed pearls-loved it) to a black tie event...must Republican women wear burkas for crying out loud!

[nyconse]

Remember when the media types said Judge Roberts children were ‘creepy’ because they wore traditional childrens clothing and are blonde (I think). Republicans can do nothing right in the eyes of the media except lose elections.

[Scotswife]

too sexy for the White House?

“I’m Too Sexy”
Right Said Fred

I’m too sexy for my love too sexy for my love
Love’s going to leave me

I’m too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I’m too sexy for Milan too sexy for Milan
New York and Japan

And I’m too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I’m disco dancing

I’m a model you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
I do my little turn on the catwalk

I’m too sexy for my car too sexy for my car
Too sexy by far
And I’m too sexy for my hat
Too sexy for my hat what do you think about that

I’m a model you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
I shake my little touche on the catwalk

I’m too sexy for my too sexy for my too sexy for my

‘Cos I’m a model you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
I shake my little touche on the catwalk

I’m too sexy for my cat too sexy for my cat
Poor pussy poor pussy cat
I’m too sexy for my love too sexy for my love
Love’s going to leave me

And I’m too sexy for this song

[b9]

I do remember that attack on Roberts’ children!
Thanks for reminding ~ those kids were darling, too, and sooo patient.
The little son was borderline ornery IIRC and really cute.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

"But wouldn't you draw a distinction between Bill Clinton, who had a wife his own age but was running around on the side with a twenty-something, and Fred Thompson, who is in his sixties and married to a woman who is, I guess, about 40? Seems a big difference to me."

Sorta' different things, usually; in the one case you are trying to hide what you are doing from the public eye, in the other you are out front about it: "I don't care what people think".

And one thing to ask is:

"Which sort of behavior- private or public - is more subversive of "conservative" "social" or "family" values".

Of course, as noted some of the responses above, some people have no problem with it at all, as long as it's in the context of marriage.

I have my doubts, though, that this argument is likely to be entirely convincing to women who can imagine themselves as the the first or second wife of a thrice married man.

FWIW, IMO this is largely a class thing.

For many years you were most likely to see this combination at either end of the income range; poor younger women would marry older men of often also modest means for stability and a modicum of security, and rich men would marry younger women for status or personal satisfaction. Meanwhile the "middle class" value was that you stayed married for life, usually in a relationship where the woman was a few years younger than the man. (For middle-income families, this was usually the best strategy economically - divorce was a economic event from which one or both partners often never completely recovered financially).

Lately, as standards of living and disposable income (especially of upper-middle class professionals) has risen and SS and Medicare have somewhat reduced the economic risks of divorce, you are seeing an increase in the number of "middle-class" Americans - mostly men - who are willing and able to start "second families" in their 40s, 50s and 60s - behavior which was previously the province of the rich and the poor.

(I'm not. BTW, saying that economics drives everything in such decisions, especially at the individual level - only that it's quite important in determining "values" and "moral standards" at the group level).

Such remarriage to yonder women are still socially traumatic, though - when you see three or four such couples out to diner together (at least in my Mid-West city) you will most often see older men paired with younger women, you rarely see groups where the men and women are randomly assorted by age, or even where you have men in their 50s and 60s and the women a mixed group such as two women in their 30s and two women in their 50s and 60s.

Now, this puts Thompson in a tricky spot.

The romantic life he's been leading (dating other entertainers and then marrying a younger woman) is that of a certain section of the very well to do - successful entertainment figures. The voters he's trying to reach, however, are members of a more conservative middle and lower-middle class.

[lolhelp]

All I can say, is what I told people who had any remarks about the difference in our ages when my husband and I were married, “shut up, it is no ones business except ours”.

[nyconse]

Yes-how you could find fault with such adorable kids is beyond me, but of course they were a conservative’s children.

[Memphis Moe]

Is she conservative? If so, can she run instead of Fred?

[Memphis Moe]

Is she conservative? If so, can she run instead of Fred?

[nyconse]

Perhaps she can run instead of Rudy and/or Mitt. They certainly are not conservative.