Bombshell: Fred smiles at, makes eye contact with wife
posted at 6:21 pm on June 7, 2007 by Allahpundit
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And that’s just the part that the camera captured. For all we know, he may have touched her arm or even taken her hand at some point in the evening. Who knows how dirty the public displays of affection get between this man and his lawfully wedded spouse?
One of the fringe benefits of Fred getting the nomination will be watching the left tie itself in knots trying to insult his much younger (but not that much younger) wife while avoiding the pitfalls of their own rhetoric on Clinton, feminism, and sexual liberation, all of which Ace is already using to great effect. Some of them will make no pretense of what they’re doing and go whole hog with “work the pole” cracks, but most will dress it up as “political criticism” to legitimize it to themselves and, more importantly, to the media. Expect loads of phony outrage about hypocrisy, divorce, and the “family values” party despite the fact that Giuliani and McCain are also divorced (as was Ronald Reagan) and their wives have been notably and thankfully spared any innuendo.
It’s transparent nonsense anyway. The fact is, the same snide remarks would be directed at Jeri Thompson even if this was Fred’s first marriage because it’s not his divorce that irks them, it’s the fact that she’s young and attractive and thus tends to rebuke by her mere presence the liberal narrative that all conservatives are anti-sex and incapable of relating to people, especially young people, on the most basic level. They’ll deny it, but secretly the left understands that their perceived hipness is a political asset for them. Anything that plays well with younger voters and adds a certain fashionableness to being liberal is all to the good; whatever “branding” George Lakoff may have in mind, that sort of branding is vastly more valuable. A semi-related example: some moron at HuffPo called me on the carpet a few weeks ago for making a toilet joke in connection with Sheryl Crow saying we should use one square of TP to wipe. He was taken aback; conservatives don’t do that, you see. They’re old, humorless, “out of touch,” and find it constitutionally impossible to relate to anyone younger, even via something as universal as shinola jokes. If “The Half-Hour News Hour” didn’t reek, which, sadly, it does, they’d claim that it did just to remind people that humor, like race, is entirely a function of political ideology. Just like they’ll be “reminding” people throughout the campaign that Fred’s wife is the bad kind of attractive, not the good kind of attractive like, say, Nancy Pelosi.
Exit question: A lot of people have e-mailed to ask that we try to land an interview with Fred, but I’m thinking that would necessarily end up being the same old same old “here’s where I stand” snoozer. Instead of Fred, how about trying for an interview with Jeri? She strikes me as a tough cookie, as one would have to be to deal with him, I’d imagine. I bet she’d have some interesting things to say to her detractors.
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Beautiful Republican women always enrage liberals. Just ask the author of Unhinged.
Ali-Bubba on June 7, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Placing an attractive woman before the media is like offering meat to flies. Clearly, Fred should do the respectable thing and put her in a burka now.
Blacklake on June 7, 2007 at 6:27 PM
What is the actual age difference? Because I do think that it will not play well with women voters (generally speaking). It’s not a political thing at all, and I think it would hurt a Dem candidate as well, although it would certainly receive less attention from the media.
Dudley Smith on June 7, 2007 at 6:27 PM
csdeven aneurysm in 5, 4, 3 …
thirteen28 on June 7, 2007 at 6:29 PM
Oh, the horror! Stone them! Get a burqa on her!
amerpundit on June 7, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Heh. Great headline
Spirit of 1776 on June 7, 2007 at 6:32 PM
Exactly. Liberal women especially will despise her.
Max Power on June 7, 2007 at 6:33 PM
Conservatives, especially religious conservatives are not anti-sex:
Laura on June 7, 2007 at 6:34 PM
How about two interviews. Just where Fred stands on the issues is important to me, no holds barred, tough questions demanding honest answers. Interview Jeri too. Or…How about you open up the format with an invitation to every one of the Republican candidates and their wives in just the same manner. Let’s see the people who want us to give them this job right here where we get our news, express our views and spend way too much of our time.
Buzzy on June 7, 2007 at 6:34 PM
You sure got over KP quickly.
Yes, by all means, please try to get an interview with Mrs. Thompson. We could even submit questions. Or not.
PattyAnn on June 7, 2007 at 6:37 PM
Bombshell, indeed.
see-dubya on June 7, 2007 at 6:39 PM
They look like they actually enjoy each other’s company, which isn’t a vibe I often got from the Clintons.
Here’s more by Don Surber.
see-dubya on June 7, 2007 at 6:42 PM
He’s 64, she’s 40. A bit less than the difference between Cleveland and his wife, except that when that couple married she was 21 and he was President. He was the only President to be married in the White House, and the marriage was controversial not for the age disparity itself but for the fact that “Cleveland was the executor of the Folsom estate and supervised Frances’ upbringing.”
Cleveland, by the way, was a Democrat.
calbear on June 7, 2007 at 6:43 PM
Just picture the first Fred! Presidential trip to Saudi-land. Jeri gets off AF1 wearing a bikini and the Whabbis start keeling over!
Iblis on June 7, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Just ask Rosie…
SouthernGent on June 7, 2007 at 6:48 PM
An interview with the Mrs. T would be a refreshing.
I’ve enjoyed listening to Lynn Cheney views, so why not Jeri?
Kini on June 7, 2007 at 6:51 PM
When my husband looks at me like that, he gets lucky.
It is what we do in a marriage, even a (gasp) Republican marriage.
All these single lib women need to get laid more often.
Stormy70 on June 7, 2007 at 6:51 PM
It is only a yawner if the interviewer allows it to be. Fred is running not his wife. Get the interview with Fred if you can. Heck, try to get an interview with all of the candidates.
Bradky on June 7, 2007 at 6:52 PM
When did dating a 40 year old woman become taboo or “robbing the cradle”? I find it hilarious that they act like she’s some just out of college trophy wife. SHE’S 40!
And AP:
I know, you’re just kidding, but there are just some things we don’t joke about, and the Speaker of the Botox’s attractiveness is enough to make anyone sick. I’m tempted to ask to be banned… or maybe just puke.
Seriously though, am I the only one who thinks it’s more than possible that Pelosi sleeps in a coffin?
RightWinged on June 7, 2007 at 6:52 PM
I’d make eye contact with her too if she was my wife….
Tim Burton on June 7, 2007 at 6:53 PM
Hottest(possible).First.Lady.Ever!
yo on June 7, 2007 at 6:56 PM
Just remember the “kiss” with Al and Tipper. Fair to speculate that the Dems might react similarly to too much Fred and Jeri dramatics. If Fred is the true “southern gentlemen” everyone seems to think, he will keep his personal business personal where it should stay.
Bradky on June 7, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Is the fact that he’s married to this bombshell going to hurt him with the women voters?
PRCalDude on June 7, 2007 at 7:03 PM
Not true. My hubby is 10 yrs older than I, and I have quite a few friends that have 14+ years between them and their spouses.
heatherrc77 on June 7, 2007 at 7:03 PM
Oh, if she were my wife, there’d be contact… but not with our eyes. Hmmmmmmm… Oh wait, I’m not on Red Eye, and that comment doesn’t really suit this venue.
RightWinged on June 7, 2007 at 7:04 PM
Dang - I thought it was me doing it all that time. Thanks for bursting my bubble.
Editor on June 7, 2007 at 7:04 PM
Not me. She is gorgeous, and that doesn’t bother me. When I see a beautiful woman, I will be the first to point her out…”Wow, honey..look at her!”
heatherrc77 on June 7, 2007 at 7:04 PM
Well, she’s no Rosie…
BobH on June 7, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Point her out to the rest of us guys.
Seems I can’t find one that is attractive that doesn’t have a kid and is a Christian.
Seems all the good looking girls get knocked up and then go to church to get a husband…they seem to have it backwards…
Tim Burton on June 7, 2007 at 7:13 PM
Yea, I just didn’t want to say that. I have to remain tactful in at least 1 out of every 100 posts.
Tim Burton on June 7, 2007 at 7:14 PM
Why in the world would you??
Jim Treacher on June 7, 2007 at 7:15 PM
Thanks for the info, calbear
heatherrc77 - the age discrepancy won’t keep me from voting for Fred!, but 24 years is quite a bit. I think I read somewhere else that he was 60 and she was 35 when they married, and that’s really a generation’s difference. The whole “he’s old enough to be her father” thing comes into play. Maybe I’m just projecting from the way I know my wife thinks, and for Fred’s sake I hope you’re right. But I know that is going to be a tough sell for my wife, who might otherwise be inclined to vote for him.
Dudley Smith on June 7, 2007 at 7:18 PM
Dr. Laura I presume?
Just kidding
Bradky on June 7, 2007 at 7:18 PM
Jonathan Edwards had 12 kids. I heard he had a hot wife also.
PRCalDude on June 7, 2007 at 7:20 PM
LOL. That’s perfect–and no, you’re not alone!
I doubt it. When I see an intelligent, gracious, and mature man with a beautiful younger woman, I think, “Good for him.” However, when I see some old sot like Teddy Kennedy or the philandering Bill Clinton with a chickadee, I think, “Gold-digger and dirty old man.”
IrishEi on June 7, 2007 at 7:21 PM
By interviewing Jeri you open her up for criticism. Besides she is basically a non issue unless we’re discussing her ideas on the role and behavior of former and future first ladies. I don’t really give a rats a$$ what she thinks about her detractors, but even at that, a real lady doesn’t speak to those criticisms and it could be considered an insult to even ask. Did anyone have the gall to ask Laura Bush about the rape story from a few weeks ago? I didn’t hear of it. Ya know, maybe we should get her on here because if the fred? groupies impression is that she would answer that question, I think we should know that so we can eliminate her husband from any further discussion as a possible presidential candidate.
Get freddie boy on here so we can ask him the tough questions he’s refusing to engage. Don’t bother giving him a forum where he can just parrot what the other candidates have already said. Lets get him in a live video feed so we can see just how weak his staffers say he is when forced to answer questions without a script. That could save a lot of well meaning yet misguided republicans from throwing any more money down the rat hole.
csdeven on June 7, 2007 at 7:21 PM
And I also love the irony of the left thinking it’s perfectly ok for Clinton to have exploited a dumb 22 year old for oral sex but have a problem with Fred being happily married to a woman who’s 40 and well established.
thirteen28 on June 7, 2007 at 7:23 PM
WHO CARES??! The woman is 40, not 19! She is also a very accomplished woman. They are married, they have children, they are not adulterers.
Isn’t it better to have some smart hottie sleeping next to you every night? Should we ask Bill Clinton how it worked out to have a pantsuited robot by his side? Oh wait, we already know how that panned out.
She’s hot, she’s smart, she may actually keep him from straying in the Oval Office, what the heck is wrong with that?
Oh, and Tim Burton, we’re everywhere, I’m a conservative Christian, I have no kids, no hubby, I’m a lawyer (I know, don’t hold it against me), but we’re a dime a dozen in D.C. which is not good for us!
hollygolightly on June 7, 2007 at 7:24 PM
Well, 24 years is quite a difference, but it isn’t like he is 28 and she is 4.
heatherrc77 on June 7, 2007 at 7:24 PM
Maybe not, Tim. I would give one or two of this gals a chance. Think about it: they could have had an abortion but chose not to. Surely they knew it would be hard to find a husband when they already had a child, and it would be hard to raise that child alone. They didn’t take the easy way out. Says something about their character.
IrishEi on June 7, 2007 at 7:25 PM
WHAT!?! A REAL LADY is smart enough to defend herself!
heatherrc77 on June 7, 2007 at 7:27 PM
She’s be the prettiest first lady ever.
Side note: Varina, Jefferson Davis’ wife was really pretty for her time, as there weren’t many pretty women back then if you look at old photos.
SillyRyno on June 7, 2007 at 7:27 PM
I hope you get an interview with her AP. As a possible First Lady, I’d like to know where she stands on various issues and what she’d like to accomplish as First Lady.
Yakko77 on June 7, 2007 at 7:28 PM
Channeling Mohammed/Aisha? LOL
IrishEi on June 7, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Not all girls that have kids had them out of wed-lock. My very dear friend (who is absolutely gorgeous!) has a son from a marriage that went totally sour. Her ex-husband turned out to be a total fake, among other things. But, she does have a beautiful son out of it. I am on the prowl to find her a great guy!!!
heatherrc77 on June 7, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Allah,
Interview Fred! on American With Disability Act (ADA) since ADA is clearly anti-Federalist that involves the Federal government.
Does anybody know where Fred! stands on the issue of ADA?
Kokonut on June 7, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Quite a few Christian girls, in their hurry to get married, end up marrying guys who misrepresented themselves. My wife’s friend nearly married some real loser.
PRCalDude on June 7, 2007 at 7:33 PM
I wish I knew what a *turd* he really was beforehand.
heatherrc77 on June 7, 2007 at 7:35 PM
I would like to interview her. I thought that was a Tiffany heart necklace she is wearing but I think it is an Elephant. So is she a true Republican or like Laura Bush a good wife who actually believes in abortion contrary to her husband?
Drtuddle on June 7, 2007 at 7:36 PM
No worries, Editor. The other half of the equation is that conservative, religious husbands are HOT. ;-)
Bradky on June 7, 2007 at 7:18 PM - well, not Dr. Ruth, anyway!
PRCalDude on June 7, 2007 at 7:20 PM - yes, he did have 12, funny but I never thought of it quite like that before.
Tim Burton - perhaps you have some things backwards… regardless of her past, if a woman is good looking, a good mother and a good Christian, what is there about YOU to recommend you as a husband and father to any future kids she may have? Something to think about.
Laura on June 7, 2007 at 7:36 PM
Clinton got his balls s*cked by a woman 27 years his minor.
/crickets chirping
omnipotent on June 7, 2007 at 7:36 PM
No, you’re not the only one, she does have an odd waxen quality about her.
4shoes on June 7, 2007 at 7:36 PM
Leering is much worse than infidelity (to NOW proponents).
omnipotent on June 7, 2007 at 7:38 PM
THAT will be the tack they take. Just how long had fred? been eyeing Jeri? How old was she when he divorced. That kinda crap.
csdeven on June 7, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Heheh. It didn’t just magically happen. Puritans weren’t Victorians.
PRCalDude on June 7, 2007 at 7:42 PM
Well, at least we know he’s not going to be wasting his time chasing interns (and everything else that wears a skirt) around when he should be running a country!
4shoes on June 7, 2007 at 7:42 PM
Are you defending Fred!? All kidding aside, I know what you mean. I went through it myself, with my family, friends, my husbands family. It is tiresome, but not too much of a heartache. Its not that big a deal.
heatherrc77 on June 7, 2007 at 7:42 PM
Why would she bother? What is there to gain? A real lady is smart enough not to dignify those type of questions with answers.
csdeven on June 7, 2007 at 7:42 PM
Reminder for all the young guys here - it is about what is inside that counts most. And in the end we look more like Pelosi and Trent Lott to the new younger set no matter what pills and surgery we get.
Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest conservatives in history. If the Brits had gone only on looks imagine what would have been lost….
Bradky on June 7, 2007 at 7:43 PM
But remember: exercise is the poor man’s plastic surgery. Heheh.
PRCalDude on June 7, 2007 at 7:45 PM
You can’t escape gravity - exercise is great I agree but aging gracefully is a strength, not a weakness imho.
Bradky on June 7, 2007 at 7:46 PM
A real lady would know how to do it tactfully, so in other words, do the EXACT opposite of Rosie.
heatherrc77 on June 7, 2007 at 7:47 PM
The left has a lot to learn about conservatives and their attitudes towards sex.
SisterToldjah on June 7, 2007 at 7:48 PM
So, Laura Bush isn’t a real lady? C’mon.
I’d really like you to find me several examples when a lady in the public eye, got into a pissing contest with a insulting jerk and did not come out covered in piss.
You seem to be assuming that a woman who defends herself against an insult is just going to have her say and that’s it. It don’t work that way.
But, you do as you please, but my suggestion is that if you are ever the target of an insult, ignore it and move on.
csdeven on June 7, 2007 at 8:01 PM
If she can respond like Fred did to M.Moore, then full-steam ahead.
Spirit of 1776 on June 7, 2007 at 8:11 PM
Heh Heh Ok Allah to the interview with jeri. Now where can we find a dedicated knowegable pundit, who would be available for such an ardious work detail? Tough job but someones got to do it.
sonnyspats1 on June 7, 2007 at 8:27 PM
Cloture vote going on right now: C-Span 2.
*fingers crossed*
IrishEi on June 7, 2007 at 8:29 PM
And who on the Hot Air staff, might be conducting the interview with Jeri?
Valiant on June 7, 2007 at 9:24 PM
My guess would be The Boss.
Maxx on June 7, 2007 at 9:33 PM
I’m always interested in hearing from the spouses. I think the kind of person a potential president chooses as his or her life partner says a lot about him or her. And the type of relationship they have says a lot, too. My marriage is absolutely central to my daily life and to my worldview.
aero on June 7, 2007 at 9:49 PM
Jeri! Ummm I mean Fred!
- The Cat
MirCat on June 7, 2007 at 10:04 PM
RRrrrrrlllllll…
Mojave Mark on June 7, 2007 at 10:25 PM
Good for Fred, looks like he married a woman that is feminine, rather than feminist. That’s the way I like them too.
Maxx on June 7, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Been there, done that. It was a nightmare every time either for my friends who were dating a girl with a baby or for me..
I have had to end a date short or leave a movie early, because the father decided to go out with the guys and was demanding that she take the kid back. Every time he came to pick up the kid or drop her off, he only would talk bad about me. I never did anything wrong to her, but he just caused constant issues, as if he was jealous and didn’t want her around other men. This despite the fact he was sleeping with other women.
It finally culminated in a fist fight, the crappiest part was that she refused to tell the cops he threw the first punch. She said, “I don’t know what happened. He was upset, and my BF (me) was telling him to leave…”
The cop said, there wasn’t enough evidence to charge one person, only both of us.
One started hooking up with her ex when I was dating her. I would go to my church on Sunday Morning and hers on Sunday evening. So for a couple of month she was banging her ex, and having me go to church with her.
Another had her ex calling CPS on her and dragging me into a bunch of legal drama. I’d would have been worse, except that her mom stated I was never alone with the child. That cleared me of the accusations.
That was it. Too much baggage.
Tim Burton on June 7, 2007 at 11:50 PM
Gross, it looks like the Crypt Keeper eyeing his next meal.
gmcjetpilot on June 8, 2007 at 1:01 AM
What is worse for these upcoming 2008 captions:
- Bill Clinton and his ‘mother’, or
- Fred Thompson and his ‘daughter’?
And the ‘daughter’ looks elegant and lovely, and is definitely not as deprived and dure.
Entelechy on June 8, 2007 at 1:52 AM
Besides, Fred probably actually enjoyed the honeymoon, where as Bill….Ah…nevermind…
Tim Burton on June 8, 2007 at 3:21 AM
Side-Side Note:
Davis was the only American President to adopt a black son. His name was Jim Limber
Tim Burton on June 8, 2007 at 3:24 AM
So you include the Confederate president as one of the American presidents?
Very interesting and telling.
Bradky on June 8, 2007 at 7:32 AM
So Davis wasn’t an American, and he wasn’t a President? I guess there was no justification for calling it a Civil War, then…and no justification for fighting it, either, since you’ve decided that the Confederacy wasn’t America.
Now you would have had a point if he were talking about the POTUS…Davis was never President of the United States.
James on June 8, 2007 at 8:54 AM
It wasn’t.
Bradky on June 8, 2007 at 8:59 AM
So…what, we went on a war of conquest to invade a sovereign nation? What are you, some sort of ‘South will rise again!’ type?
James on June 8, 2007 at 9:03 AM
I always get a chuckle from those who feel they need a magazine article to tell them their intimate affairs are satisfying.
Bradky on June 8, 2007 at 9:03 AM
Hardly, but drawing some kind of convoluted parallel to Jefferson Davis’ adoption leaves a bit of an implication that maybe the CSA had some redeeming value which I certainly don’t agree with.
Bradky on June 8, 2007 at 9:05 AM
If the CSA had no redeeming values, why did we fight so hard to bring it back into the Union? Was it all about revenge?
Redeeming values aside, we can’t expunge the likes of Nixon and Carter from having been ‘American Presidents.’ Just because you don’t like something doesn’t change history.
James on June 8, 2007 at 9:08 AM
A man with a pretty lady (I choose the word Lady on purpose) on his arm tells other ladies that this guy has something going on. Generally making him more attractive to women voters.
Lawrence on June 8, 2007 at 9:23 AM
If we aren’t careful, this could lead to dancing!
I’m looking forward to watching liberals, especially feminazis, tie themselves into knots trying to explain how Clinton’s inability to keep his hands off the hired help was somehow admirable, but it’s terrible if Fred shows affection for his own wife. As always, it’s a shame that they can’t choke on their own hypocrisy.
ReubenJCogburn on June 8, 2007 at 10:03 AM
The people making snide remarks may be moved most of all by envy, given their having made such an great moral virtue out of pity. An over-developed ability to imagine others’ pain seems to amount also to an over-developed ability to imagine their pleasure and wish it were one’s own. Whomever or whatever one can’t have, one may resent; resenting, one may despise; despising, one will insult. It seems that, in this way, the envious come to regard unattainable goods and those who possess them as evil. And if evils must be destroyed, then unattainable goods and those who possess them become targets of malice.
Kralizec on June 8, 2007 at 11:10 AM
I’m betting your not old enough to remmember Jacqueline Kennedy. Jeri Thompson is attractive, but she’s no Jackie Kennedy.
Maxx on June 8, 2007 at 12:20 PM