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Report: Fred Thompson's Wife Urges Candidacy
elephantbiz.com ^ | March 23, 2007 | Bill Hobbs

Posted on 03/27/2007 8:39:35 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares

A Fred Thompson presidential run is looking more and more likely, says DC columnist and political insider Robert D. Novak:

Close friends of Fred Thompson say his wife Jeri is urging him to take the plunge later this year and run for the Republican presidential nomination.

The former senator from Tennessee and current actor on "Law & Order," in private conversation, makes it clear that he is seriously interested in launching a candidacy that has attracted extraordinary attention over the last two weeks. However, he does not plan to announce his candidacy in the immediate future.

The major rap against Thompson is that he was not a hard worker during his eight years in the Senate. His friends respond that this is an easily correctable error and that the same complaint was made about Ronald Reagan before he ran for president.

Thompson's wife is Jeri Kehn, was a political media consultant at the Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson law firm in Washington, D.C., when they married in 2002. She also previously worked for the Senate Republican Conference and the Republican National Committee.


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KEYWORDS: elections; fredthompson; jerikehn
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To: beansox; Lead Moderator
again. stop harassing me. stop posting to me. you have been asked several times.

And, like I said, don't make obviously goading posts if you are going to make such a request. You only called the mods when you got the worst of your own flame war. You start flame wars and then ask the mods to put them out when they turn on you.

121 posted on 03/27/2007 11:11:17 AM PDT by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: dirtboy; Lead Moderator

stop posting to me.


122 posted on 03/27/2007 11:11:57 AM PDT by beansox (Burn A Fire In Our Hearts For The Battle At Hand)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

U got it freddie, she gets my vote for 1st Lady


123 posted on 03/27/2007 11:13:05 AM PDT by fang333
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To: beansox

Stop making goading posts and I will. If I see you doing such, I will post to you again and call you on it. Anyone who equates Fred marrying a 36-year-old woman with pedophilia has a lot of nerve crying to the moderators for protection.


124 posted on 03/27/2007 11:13:12 AM PDT by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: dirtboy; Lead Moderator

stop posting to me.


125 posted on 03/27/2007 11:14:08 AM PDT by beansox (Burn A Fire In Our Hearts For The Battle At Hand)
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To: beansox
I think the wife will require a bit of a makeover to appeal to soccer moms. They can be a catty bunch. They will hold her youth and good body against......him. And, not in a good way. LOL! Anyway, this is an interesting blurb from 2002. I didn't know that Pres. Bush considered Thompson for VP:

Associates said the senator was deeply affected when his daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Thompson Panici, 38, died January 30 after a heart attack. Senate sources said Thompson started telling colleagues of his retirement plans a few days ago, and he told President Bush this week.

Bush praised Thompson -- who was once on Bush's short list of potential vice presidential candidates -- for serving "the people of Tennessee with honor, distinction, and class." http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/03/08/thompson

126 posted on 03/27/2007 11:16:45 AM PDT by redgirlinabluestate
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To: napscoordinator
This photo is from 2006

http://www.daylife.com/topic/08bl17qdhl4vP/gallery/1/03dqg4K7qX8nt

Sorry I'm link chalanged.

127 posted on 03/27/2007 11:17:46 AM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: redgirlinabluestate

Thanks that all I was really getting people to see. I live im LA, wives like that are dime a dozen here. However they are not llike that in Middle America.

All this couple has done for the last several years is go to uber-liberal elitists parties (Entertainment Weekly gala's, Oscars, etc). They are socialites who want to be "Presidential". It wont set well with some people.

Good Luck to them. I have nothing against either of them. I hope the best man wins. I really do.


But the jokes and snarky comments I have posted are nothing to what a national campaign will do to them. His supporters better start preparing for it.


128 posted on 03/27/2007 11:21:16 AM PDT by beansox (Burn A Fire In Our Hearts For The Battle At Hand)
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To: El Gran Salseron
This is the first time it happened to me and I did click cancel

Anyway I was just wondering. Funny though it only happened on this thread

129 posted on 03/27/2007 11:33:21 AM PDT by Kaslin (Fred Thompson for President 2008)
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To: Kaslin

hey, i just got the same thing. some funky website interference.


130 posted on 03/27/2007 11:41:44 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Names Ash Housewares

This is when a man needs to listen to his wife.


131 posted on 03/27/2007 11:43:36 AM PDT by dforest (Liberals love crisis, create crisis and then dwell on them.)
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To: beansox
Right. They look like a nice couple -- more power to them. Yet, if they are serious about a run the handlers will be smart to get her hair cut and get her out of plunging Versace gowns and into demure St. John suits (or the kind Laura Bush wears)! LOL.

I think she can be an asset to Fred. It sounds as if she had a legitimate career and is an intelligent, professional woman. That's all very good. She just needs to look the part of First Lady more. That's all.

It would be fun to have the little girl, Hayden, in the WH. People will like that (I think?).

132 posted on 03/27/2007 11:46:26 AM PDT by redgirlinabluestate
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To: xsmommy

I got the interference too. Mine said washingtonlife.com. Did yours?


133 posted on 03/27/2007 11:47:34 AM PDT by redgirlinabluestate
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To: wagglebee; dirtboy

Hey, wagglebee, it's happening over here, too.

I was told this is an open forum. If you post, expect a reply. It's a whole other story if someone does it via freepmail, but any post on open forum is a request for replies by any and all active freepers in good standing. Especially it' it's taunting by an ignorant young liberal fool like is occurring here.


134 posted on 03/27/2007 11:53:24 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (There are 2 types of Rudy fans - the uninformed or anti-conservative TROLLS who do not belong on FR)
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To: Fierce Allegiance; dirtboy

It looks like beansox is gone.


135 posted on 03/27/2007 12:03:44 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: beansox

How can you claim she's a golddigger with a resume like "Jeri Kehn was a political media consultant at the Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson law firm in Washington, D.C. She also worked for the Senate Republican Conference and the Republican National Committee"?

Only if you have a clear objective with the distortion!


136 posted on 03/27/2007 12:13:06 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (There are 2 types of Rudy fans - the uninformed or anti-conservative TROLLS who do not belong on FR)
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To: wagglebee

It'll be back.


137 posted on 03/27/2007 12:13:56 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (There are 2 types of Rudy fans - the uninformed or anti-conservative TROLLS who do not belong on FR)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

It doesn't matter one way or the other. They're like mosquitoes, you smack one and a dozen more swarm over.


138 posted on 03/27/2007 12:16:41 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: redgirlinabluestate
i agree, i imagine she will dress a bit differently as a candidate's wife, instead of an actor's wife. she worked on the Hill, she knows the expected dress, no doubt. i think she is pretty.

and as for the website i think it was something like washingtonlife also!

139 posted on 03/27/2007 12:26:40 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Names Ash Housewares

They were 53 and 29 when they met. They married 6 years later, in 2002.


140 posted on 03/27/2007 12:39:01 PM PDT by Teacher317 (Are you familiar with the writings of Shan Yu?)
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