[trisham]

Consider it a test. There's nothing wrong about marrying someone so much much younger, but Freds and Frednecks (maybe I'll be one if he's willing to take up a conservative standard) had better be ready for the snickering. If an old man thinks robbing the cradle makes him look virile--he's wrong. And there'll be a suggestion that he's an old fool trying for a "do over."

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Mrs. Thompson is forty, and a woman of some accomplishment.

From Wikipedia:

Thompson married Jeri Kehn, twenty five years his junior, on June 29, 2002 at First Congregational United Church of Christ, Naperville, Illinois, having first met her on July 4, 1996.[16] Kehn (born January, 1967) is an attorney and a political media consultant at the Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson law firm in Washington, D.C. She had formerly worked for the Senate Republican Conference and the Republican National Committee.

[Mamzelle]

Uh-huh. Well, we’ve got some time to come up with something that doesn’t sound defensive. What will help is Jeri Thompson making some public appearances that don’t involve skin.