Posted on 10/17/2007 12:28:15 PM PDT by vietvet67
No one thought Jeri Kehn could do it. Back in 2000, the dishy young Republican operative, then 33, had Washington wags atwitter over her high-profile quest to capture the famously footloose Fred Thompson. Divorced from his high school sweetheart in 1985, the senator and erstwhile actor, then 57, had become one of the hottest tickets in town. A deep- drawling, broad-shouldered six-and-half footer, Thompson had a devastating Southern charm, with a gilding of movie-star glamour. Country music bombshell Lorrie Morgan, cosmetics queen Georgette Mosbacher, conservative pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, and Time columnist Margaret Carlson were among Hollywood Fred's better-known, better-heeled paramours.
Kehn (pronounced "keen"), by contrast, was neither rich nor famous. A Midwestern gal of modest means, she had met the older, more established Thompson on July 4, 1996, in a Kroger check-out line in Nashville. Two years later, she moved to Washington to try her hand at political work and to pursue their relationship. But, while Kehn impressed Beltway types with her quick grasp of their culture, few gave her much chance of realizing her romantic aims. Thompson had never been known as a one-woman man--not even during his early, still-married days as a fledgling lobbyist living alone in Washington while his first wife, Sarah, raised their three kids back in Nashville.
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ZZZZzzzzzz!
So,...what else they got on Fred? Is this it?
She must've been better lookin' back in them days...
The article adds insult to the injury by being written in a deeply-stereotyped, fundamentally unserious manner.
This rep may be what sours Dobson on FDT.
Yup. If this had been written about a Democrat, NOW would be condemning it.
“Gal?”
Personally, I think its great Thompson has a intelligent woman that is also very pretty.
How thats a ‘negative’ escapes me.
Fred Thompson never dated Margaret Carlson. The truth is she stalked him at every opportunity, trying to get him to date her. FRT has publicly denied any romantic involvement with her, but he did it in a very gentlemanly way.
Remember the days when liberals would say, “Stay out of our bedrooms!”
Subtext isn’t really about Jeri. What TNR REALLY wants to get across (to cultural conservatives — so as to repel them from Fred-support) is, FRED FOOLED AROUND ON HIS FIRST WIFE.
The excerpt doesn’t go into any proof of that. Just innuendo. “Oh, it was well-known around Washington.” That sort of crap.
What the publication of such articles tells me is, THE LIBS FEAR FRED, whether they are correct to do so or not.
I did not know that. I’ve heard several times that she was one of his girlfriends, but I didn’t really believe it.
Hahahahaaa!
Truly corny. Well at least Fred didn’t marry his cousin, divorce her, marry another liberal woman, have a couple kids, cheat on her in public, make a public announcement he was going to divorce her, try to move in his social climbing hussy in the same house as the liberal woman he was dumping, upset his kids, dump her kid, and marry the social climbing hussy and try to pass the hussy off as first lady material.
Whew , busy guy.
I guess his supporters can truthfully claim Giuliani isn’t lazy.
Poor things. They do not have anything better to do. They need to get a real job.
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