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Me: Flyin’ out to Iowa?
Thompson: Yup.
Me: Leer jet?
Thompson: Just last night.
lol, g.
I just hope Fred Thompson signed a pre-nup………
Why does he have a trophy wife? Because he can!
That photo begs for “1st Leddy” comments…
Dude, with a wife like that he ain’t gonna make it through one term…but, GD will he have a blast.
Oh, and uh,…what Skippy said.
Sheesh — only the guys commenting and joking??
Uh-huh. Of course.
See, I was going to comment but hesitated. But since you’re asking…
Hell, if I were a guy *I’d* be leering too. She’s hot. And I agree with bullnav ~ he might not make it through 1 term. But what a term it will be! I’d much rather have a guy who leers at his wife and is proud of it than a guy that “diddles” (that term makes me giggle) an intern with a freakin cigar (what a waste of a good “ceegar”!) and then commits perjury to cover it up.
So there ya go!
P-3W
Women can have trophy husbands too!
Or do they just have pool boys? I forget.
Heh. When you’re really good, you can have BOTH!
She’s smart too!
Man, I’d be smiling too if’n that was MY wife…. and prayin’ that my wife didn’t see the pix if’n it wasn’t MY wife…
Respects,
I like McCain’s wife. An older model but looks fun and fairly limber.
Dennis Kucinich is the one with the real trophy wife. Check her out.
The one with the best deal of all is Bill Clinton. Best of both worlds.
Thompson, not so much. You can pick up a friendly fat girl in pretty much any convenient location, on short notice.
You guys are so MCP … so lame! The woman’s a nuclear physicist, for goodness sakes. Thompson is one lucky dude. Wish my husband would leer at me like that. Oh wait … he used to, 20 years ago. He’s 82 now, so … maybe not so much. But then, maybe my heart wouldn’t stand the shock.
Marianne Matthews
If I ever *not* look at my wife with a similar expression, somebody shoot me. If I can’t leer at her with a certain degree of lust in my heart (TM: Jimmy Carter) the next thing you know I’ll be buying cigars and chasing interns.
– Max
Good on him.
What I don’t get is why he’s running for Prez. I mean, if you had that hanging around the house…
Casca, you just like being contrary, I think. ‘sokay, I’m one too, please just use the contraryness in moderation, too much is bad for you and causes talk, and police attention etc.
Be chary about giving advice. A fool won’t listen, and a wise man doesn’t need it ~Franklin
I don’t see any lust in there, though the image does make him look a mite like JCarville, though not quite as reptilian. If MrsTho is what it takes FredTho to become president, so be it, and more power to him. The interns will be safer. MrsTho is not my “cups” of tea, however.
And RedDog, I cannot figure out Mrs. Kucinich. He can’t give her a hickey unless being on a stepladder. Cute, though very tall, unless DennyBoy is vertically challenged like Clinton’s Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.
V/r
-SJBill
On considering my studying of that pic, I have decided that each of those persons is leering at the other one in a very lustful manner, and that that is a good thing.
I wish them both,each and equally, the maximally attainable amount of connubial bliss. It’s about time we had somebody running for President who likes his wife who likes him.
(and I mean that in a physical emotional animal way)
I mean, I think of (shudder) the Clinton administration, and Laura’s sexy-librarian qualities which seem to have gone unnoticed by the present POTUS.
I could be wrong, of course
I have to wonder what the guy in the back of the picture behind Thompson is thinking…
I agree – it would be wonderful to see a man in the White House who truly likes his wife. And if I were an intern, I’d feel comfortable working for him. Don’t think I’d have to fear cigars…
Except for that whole smoking in them in a Federal building thing………..
Wonder if old Fred would be able light up a Cubano in the wee hours of the night in the Oval Office? While nursing a brandy?
That’s what has been missing from the Oval Office for a long time!
Wasn’t it McKinley that chewed tobacco and held poker games in the White House? Seems that caused quite a stir among the more refined visitors, but it crosses my mind that sort of “down home character” might be worth a few votes in a time where haircuts and photo ops are the campaign.
– Max
What’s the difference?
It’s his wife. They have a public commitment to a relationship that is legally recognized. He doesn’t have to skulk around the White House hiding from everyone. He hasn’t lied to the entire country with his wife sitting next to him. He isn’t a pompous, hypocritical liar, violating the oath of the marriage relationship to get a cheap thrill with a woman his daughter’s age.
It’s his wife.
If he want to leer at her, he has the right. I leer at my wife from time to time. That one of the benefits of having a wife. You get this relationship where you have forsaken all others and chosen this one other person to have a lifetime commitment to.
That’s what was so telling about Billy Boy’s leering at Monica. It showed that he had no sense of commitment and honor. It wasn’t the leering, it was the lack of integrity.
Speaking of Monica:
BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE
This week we celebrate a special birthday. Monica Lewinsky turned 31.
Can you believe it? It seems like only yesterday she was crawling around the White House on her hands and knees, and putting everything in her mouth.
They grow up so fast, don’t they?
nyuk-nyuk/b2
I fail to see how eye contact with one’s (admittedly sorta hot wife) is leering.
Help me out here.