Fred Thompson knocked up his girlfriend and married her so that she could put him through college.

Apparently the bush backers are having a love fest right now on this very subject. He is very appealing to them because he hasn't really said anything yet as opposed to the rest of the candidates.

Satan has a special place in hell reserved for family values hypocrites.

It never ceases to amaze me how low a Stalinist will stoop to to promote his/her agenda.

ROTFLMAO. The nutsrooter who wrote that crap can't even get the picture right much less much of anything else. That's not Jeri Thompson but rather country singer Lorrie Morgan who Fred once dated. Hilarious.

Funny, I was at that Hitler book signing and I don't remember seeing Fred there.

C'mon schnoo. Isn't it a well-documented fact that all Republicans are Nazis, komrade, engaged in a kulturkampf against the Amerikan people?

Re the "Nazi" business: If Thompson has a grain of sense, he'll come right back at that sort of attack and argue that by dramatizing the dangers of Naziism and Nazi ideology he was in fact using his "artistic skills" to make a powerful anti-Nazi statement. Attacking him for playing a Nazi in a professional role is like calling Steven Spielberg a Nazi sympathizer for depicting Nazi atrocities so powerfully in Schindler's List. (Don't laugh, there were some at the time the movie came out who seriously questioned the morality of putting such things on screen in an artistic context). So this will be an interesting test of Thompson's intelligence and quickness to respond. The fatal weakness of the last two Democratic candidates has been their failure to confront the smears against them directly, and instead taking the "high road" while Rove's lie-machine spread their fabricated nonsense all over the place. If Thompson handles this well, my opinion of him may improve. If not -- well, call it Darwinian selection.

The accusations about his shotgun marriage, divorce, trophy wife and string of Hollywood girlfriends may be more of a problem. But then again, the Republicans elected and later canonized and worshiped the first divorced President in American history; embraced as a champion of "family values" a speaker of the house who was known to have abandoned his seriously ill wife for a younger mistress, pretended not to know that Mark Foley was a gay chickenhawk as long as he made righteous noises about fighting pedophiles who used the Internet to troll for victims, and on and on and on. We should all clearly understand by now that championing "family values" does not, to a Republican, have anything to do with living by them. It has to do only with blaming all "moral decline" on Democrats.

I hate propaganda even if its true (sic), this is from a blog am I supposed to be indoctrinated, this guys an actor so that means he will be a great politician a great leader as he can lie with out blinking an eye lid and cry on prompt. Oh I love American politics it cut throat and full of plastic smiles.

The original article upsets me. What is the purpose? To stir up hate against a person for no real reason? Be opposed to his policies or his ideas, not manufactured reasons. The worst part of all is if that campiagn were run, there would be people who would vote based on it.

The author of the original article must not be confident in his/her candidate. publius

Fred Thompson married Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey in September 1959, at the age of 17. Fred and Sarah Thompson divorced in 1985, 26 years later. 17 years later, on June 29, 2002, Thompson married Republican consultant Jeri Kehn.

I would be curious to know how much more of the information is skewed in that article. Not that he isn't a racist, bigot, white supremacist, but I am pretty sure the fact he remarried a younger woman with blond hair and fake boobs and portrayed a white supremacist in a television show aren't true defining factors. I guess we are all leprechauns because at some point in our lives we all have worn green?