The Tennessee stud: U.S. presidential candidate Fred Thompson's womanising ways

[kskiska]

Young love: Fred with first wife Sarah

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But a Mail on Sunday investigation raises serious questions about whether the affable Thompson is the committed pillar of "family values" that conservatives take him to be.

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Moreover, when Thompson married his first wife, Sarah Lindsey, at Lawrenceburg Methodist Church in 1959, she was already two months pregnant with their first child.

The couple - she was 18 and he was 17 - kept the news a secret from everyone apart from their parents.

The marriage wasn't to last. Though Thompson tries to portray their 1985 break-up as amicable and his family says Sarah will campaign for him, we can disclose that in her original divorce writ - which until now has never been made public - she accused him of "cruel and inhuman treatment".

Her brother, Oscar Lindsey, confirmed the marriage was one of secrets and unhappiness. Like Hillary Clinton, who suffered through her husband Bill's "bimbo eruptions",it seems Sarah is standing by Fred because she shares his political goals.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Double standard these days.

Womanizing has not hurt another republican candidate's image, namely Rudolph Giuliani. Three marriages, the second enduring two affairs in public. I've come to the conclusion when certain republicans womanize, their spinners use it as a plus, that is, their clients are "studs" and "manly". Even Newt has been forgiven for the last affair that transformed into his third marriage.

OTOH, when you take democrats like Gary Hart and Bill Clinton, they are spun as a menace to the family.

Only republicans are allowed to humiliate their wives and families.

[Jade Fox]

2. It has hurt the Ghoulman....

and it did hurt Gingrich with the Christian Right only. The rest of the Republicans know "family values" is just something they mouth to get the Christian Right vote.

[Doctor_J]

3. Reliable sources also say that Fred has done his share of manizing

The best switch hitter in Baltimore/Washington since Eddie Murray. Interesting to see where this goes.