Color Susan Estrich green with envy. It seems the only explanation for her hit piece on Fred Thompson. Evidently Fred failed to hit on Estrich during his dating days. So Estrich is striking back in the only way she know how.
Fred Thompson, would-be presidential candidate, is 64 years old and looks it. His wife, Jeri, is two years younger than one of his daughters and looks even younger than her 40 years.
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There have been pictures of the buxom and beautiful Jeri Thompson circulating on the Web for months. Last weekend, the story broke into the mainstream media when The New York Times asked whether the country was ready for a president with a “trophy wife.”
Presidential canidate with trophy wives are not are. John Kerry has one, for reasons of money, but neither youth nor looks. However Teresa Heinz is loaed, with money, a reported circa one billion.
Then how far are the democrats going to get in battle of spouses? Mrs. Clinton is married to a serial cad and rapist.
Hat tip: Allah Pundit, Hot Air.
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Tags: BitsBlog, Democrats, Elections, Republicans
July 14th, 2007 at 19:35
Actually, Kerry is the trophy husband.
July 14th, 2007 at 21:24
You can play either John Kerry or Teresa Heinz as the trophy. Kerry has the office, and Heinz likes senators. Heinz has the money and Kerry likes to marry money. It plays either way.
July 15th, 2007 at 0:04
To my mind, Fred Thompson as the trophy husband plays, too. Think about it; neither one is in a hurt for cash, nor smarts, nor accomplishments.
But this tends to confirm something that I wrote about several weeks ago, and at the moment too tired and too lazy to look at the link to:
Americans, center to right, tend to celebrate accomplishment. They look up to accomplished people. They make the assumption, generally correctly, that there’s a certain level of smarts attached to that level of accomplishment.
(Here’s one such link at Jawa ..… Editor)
Europeans tend to look at accomplishment with a jaundiced eye . With the amount of socialism going on over there, there is no way that somebody could be making that kind of money, and having that kind of record of accomplishment, without having cheated their way to the top, and by that measure do they judge everyone.
American leftists, meantime, think we ought to be more European.