LOTS OF ATTENTION FOR FRED THOMPSON in tomorrow’s Washington Post. “Thompson also tends to catch some slack because, at 6 feet 6 inches and with a charm and sense of humor that can crack even the most tightly clenched among us, he’s someone men want to be and women want to be with. He’s the John Wayne to Gore’s professor. Gore was the prep-school son of a U.S. senator from Carthage, Tenn., spending most of his formative years not in the green hills of the Volunteer State but in the monument-dotted confines of Washington. Thompson was the son of a used-car salesman from Lawrenceburg, Tenn., who, like Thompson’s mother, never graduated from high school.”