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.
I think he'll run. If ones wife suggests something, it's definitely going to be considered very highly.
Wow! You know I think she looks great, but she seriously makes him look so much older than he is. 65 today is not old. I think if she dressed more appropriately she could not contrast so much. Of course, he loves it and I don't have a problem one bit with his happiness, but for a political election, I don't know how much that will be a positive or negative.
If Rudy has a wife this young, 75% of freepers would be on here calling him a "dirty old man".
If Rudy has a wife this young, 75% of freepers would be on here calling him a "dirty old man".
Thank you. lol Very true.
I'll bet she has more clothes than Fred does. And shoes. And handbags.
yuck.
did somebody say 25 years isn't a huge age gap? uhhhh yeah it is. Especially because he looks like he has one foot already in the grave. She didn't marry him because he's young and goodlooking that's for sure.
That's wrong, She was 15. See. all right.
But they actually first met when she was 30
I believe the formula is half of a guys age plus 7 years.
That's age at marriage, So Fred 60, Jeri 35, She was 2 years under the target.
Cradle robber!
Why do you dislike anyone having a younger wife? It goes on all the time. I know a couple who has about 40 years difference in their ages. Or did until he died. My ancestors often married much younger ladies. It is no big deal. My aunt and uncle had about that many years between them.
me? I have no problem with any of this. my post was simply to point out the hypocrisy of alot of people here. Rudy's marital issues are all "bad, bad, bad". Thompson comes alot with some hot young bride, and everybody is OK with it.
you choose to believe donna hanover's version of the event - the "I found out at the press conference".
what happened th Thompson's first wife? maybe if someone interviewed her, we could learn as much as we know about Rudy. you see, its all about who you talk to and who you ask. Donna Hanover was a strident b**ch, that the NYC media lapped up because they were looking for dirt on Rudy, so she got alot of play.
Yup. He'll be the leader of the free world and have his wife's permission to say so ...... ;-)
Are the mistresses and extra limosines only press lies, too? Did he really force Bratton out as chief over personalities? The MSM will have a field day with all this (and buddy Bernard Kerik's troubles) and leave no rock unturned.
I'm sure they are digging already in order to tell us what happened to Thompson's first marriage-- her version. And any exhumed bones of past Thompson mistakes will receive a microscopic autopsy.
The other begins an affair while still married to his wife - Twice (Thrice?).
so let me get this straight - if someone were to interview Thompson's first wife, and she made the claim "I think he was cheating on me while we were married" - you'd disqualify Thompson from seeking the republican nomination?
However, a pattern of adultery is not the same as a one time fling or lapse. Once is forgivable to me personally. If it were a long-term pattern... see Bill Clinton as exhibit A for a bad husband and President.
If the rumors are true about what happened and the reason for Thompson's divorce it will make Rudy's divorce look like nothing. Now these are just rumors but if they are true they are juicy juicy juicy.
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