Margaret Carlson Still Hearts Fred Thompson [UPDATED WITH PHOTO]
By SusanUnPC on March 30, 2007 at 3:18 PM in Current Affairs
[UPDATED WITH PHOTO BELOW -- Don't miss it!] Back in 2000, Atrios reminded us last week, it was rumored that then Time columnist Margaret Carlson dated Sen. Fred Thompson. In fact, Sen. Thompson’s VP chances were hurt by his liaison with the “too liberal” Ms. Carlson. (And that, kids, is one reason the Shrub selected Dick Cheney, and the rest is history …)
It was also rumored at the time that Sen. Thompson was “simultaneously involved with another woman.” But that didn’t stop Margaret Carlson, now a Bloomberg columnist, from gushing about her old heartthrob on Hardball with Chris Matthews yesterday:
CARLSON: He does look like the dad. He has everything that Pat says. He‘s handsome, he‘s charming, he sounds like a president, he looks like a president, but Pat says he might not have the fire in the belly. That could help him, not having the hunger, not being willing to do anything could help him. [...]
CARLSON: The theme song of Republicans should be “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” and they‘re waiting and they‘re hoping. And so Fred Thompson is not late at all. His moment is here.
It gets better:
CARLSON: The theme song of Republicans should be “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” and they‘re waiting and they‘re hoping. And so Fred Thompson is not late at all. His moment is here.
MATTHEWS: Some day he will come along. Do you think he‘s coming now?
CARLSON: I think he‘s coming soon.
Good gracious, Margaret!
Both Matthews and Pat Buchanan have the hots for Fred too:
MATTHEWS: I notice it used to be you had to look like an anchorman to get the presidency. You needed to have a big thick head of hair. And he and Giuliani and McCain -
BUCHANAN: He looks like a big truck driver.
MATTHEWS: With a semi behind him.
BUCHANAN: Looks like a teamster, sure, a southern guy, a teamster. He‘s in from Tennessee. He‘s perfectly positioned, I think, but the question is, does he get in and is he really ready to do battle? Iowa, those things are very hard to do, Chris.
MATTHEWS: OK, you put him up against Hillary in the general election, who wins?
BUCHANAN: He wins.
CARLSON: Agreed.
MATTHEWS: Margaret Carlson? This is treason! Margaret, the sisterhood‘s at stake here. You said it so quick.
So much for being too liberal, eh Maggie?
And it’s entirely irrelevant that she once dated Thompson. That couldn’t possibly affect her judgment, could it.
As Jim Marcinkowski says below, there ain’t no cure for stupid. Especially in ga-ga love stupid.
OF COURSE, we here know that Fred Thompson HEARTS Scooter Libby: “Self-described friend of I. Lewis (“Scooter”) Libby, Jr, Thomson lent moral and financial support to Libby while on trial for his role in the Plame affair, serving on the advisory board of Libby’s defense fund that had taken in 3.5 million USD as of February 9, 2007.”
That, of course, endears Thompson to the hardcore neo-cons in D.C. Just the kind of affiliation we desire in our next president.
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Agathena just sent me this photo of Thompson and his wife, er trophy wife. Agathena presumes that, this year, Fred’s wife will be wearing a crew neck:
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