Byron York on Fred Thompson & Jeri Thompson on National Review Online

Guess I haven’t been keeping up with the liberal rags. Like, you know, the Washington Post and Newsweek. Well, Fred Thompson’s wife, Jeri, has been helping get things ready for the campaign. Some say she’s been causing rifts in the camp. Fred says that’s bologna. A lot of the articles mention Jeri’s past. And, as all good liberals know, fact checkers need not apply.

The former senator said his wife’s actions, however they have been interpreted in the press, have been at his behest. “She always looks out for my best interests, and when she sees something that she knows I would not approve of, or is not in my best interest, she voices that concern — in other words, just exactly the way I would want her to. Now, some people don’t like that, especially some people who have their own issue with regard to the campaign, shall we say, and they take advantage of putting out anonymous comments and so forth.”

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Thompson did not suggest that stories about his wife should be off limits. He understands the ways of politics. But he believes that now is not the right time for Jeri Thompson or the Thompson pre-campaign to address them in detail. “She’s not going to become a public commentator and personality as a candidate’s wife until there’s a candidate,” he said.