Younger though:)
Posted on 08/04/2007 6:42:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Presidential candidates always make a big deal of the advice they get from their wives. Ronald Reagan told voters that Nancy was his closest adviser; Bill Clinton said Hillary was so crucial to his team that electing him would be a "two-for-one" deal. On the trail, John Edwards and Barack Obama showcase their smart, outspoken spouses. Politicians seem to think it humanizes them—and increases their appeal to women voters—to come off as just a little henpecked.
Fred Thompson has his own version of the shtick. Speaking at a fund-raiser last week, he introduced Jeri Kehn Thompson as "my campaign manager—oh, I mean my wife." The line got a laugh, but in Thompson's case, the powerful-spouse bit is no act. Within his still-unofficial campaign, Jeri has emerged as the would-be candidate's top political adviser and de facto campaign manager. She urged her husband to run in the first place. To prepare for the rigors of a campaign, she recruited staff, including a friend, longtime Republican PR hand Mark Corallo, to help as an unpaid spokesman.
As the run got underway, Jeri quietly assumed responsibility for many day-to-day details, say campaign advisers who didn't want to be named talking about internal matters. She oversees her husband's travel and fund-raising events, and has the power to hire and fire staff. She also grooms Thompson's public image. When lefty filmmaker Michael Moore challenged Thompson to a debate on health care last spring, Jeri persuaded him to film a tough-guy video response that became a YouTube hit. Apparently, Jeri has not been shy about using her authority. The campaign advisers say she's smart and tireless—but her spare-no-feelings management style doesn't always have the intended effect.
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That whole story about Clinton and his leg still makes me wonder.
My first thought at the time was Clinton was returning from a dalliance provided by his friend at a place not under watchful eyes. How does a President under SS protection wherever he goes fall down stairs and break a leg? Yeah, OK.
When Gov. McGreevey of NJ broke his leg in Cape May, I laughed and told the wife, yeah he sure broke his leg on the sand there(an almost physical impossibility). The cover story was that he was cavorting harmlessly with his lovely wife Dana. Again, the NJ governor is watched over by a detail of the State Police always. So this was very suspicious. The rumors of him being gay also were hard not to tie to this story.
Well it came out much much later that he was with his gay lover in Cape May when he broke his leg. And he used his enabling wife to cover for him. At least Clinton hasn’t totally betrayed his wife like that scum McGreevey.
People fear the election of two people like the Clintons and you don’t have to be dimwits to have that happen.
I remember I was working with an orthopedic surgeon at the time and he said he couldn't remember a case like Clinton's where the person WASN'T drinking. Not that it's a huge deal, but the MSM was so up his butt that they wouldn't let anything negative out about this creep. With Bush it would have been a "national crisis".
What about Jimmah Carter talking policy with his daughter Amy? That’s a hell of a lot more scary.
Bloody twit.
Wow, Holly Bailey is some “journalist”. Could they have hired a bigger leftist tool?
Jeri seems very savvy and astute with her abilities. I have no problem with what she does, as one post said, she didn’t get up on stage and speak, just watched Fred as he mingled and shook hands with people. Sounds like she is doing what she should be doing.
But it also sounds like someone in the campaign is leaking things that they should not. I’m wondering about that.
Also, is the date on this article correct, August 13? Does Newsweek post a week ahead of publication?
Yeah, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, but he'll be busy doing time in a military detention facility, I hope.
What “unknowns” in her background?
The article suggests that her life between graduation in 1988 and meeting Fred Thompson and being hired by the RNC in 1996 is a mystery. I'd be surprised if there's anything scandalous, but there will be questions. The primary questions will be whether the end of her first marriage was controversial and whether the lawsuits resulted from foolish or questionable actions. A third question may be what exactly she did to distinguish herself and become a spokeswoman for the RNC. She's apparently going to exert a tremendous influence, and if that's the case, people have a right to ask these questions just as we questioned things that Hillary had done when the Clintons made their first run at the White House.
At this point, there's no need to for the campaign to provide this information. Technically, Fred Thompson isn't even a candidate right now. However, before the Republican Party makes him the nominee, we need to know that she wasn't involved in something embarrassing during that time. I don't want to learn in the last week of October that she did something that the Democrats can turn into headlines for a week.
I hope and believe that Newsweek found nothing because she was living a normal life during that time and because Newsweek's researchers just didn't dig deep enough to see how normal things were. If that's the case, the whole thing is just more of the waiting game that this campaign is playing.
Bill
Ping!
Yeah that’s her!
huh? Tarrrayyyyyyysssssa ring a bell?
Younger though:)
I’m referring to the MSM take on these things of course.
>> Was Clinton intoxicated at the time of the accident? I’ll never forget it. Every reporter within earshot turned around and looked at me as though I were a martian, while Mike McCurry gave me perhaps the dirtiest look I have ever received,
Says a lot about MSM’s coverage of Crats and liberals.
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