Could This Be The End For Fred Thompson? Stay Tuned Till Next Season
After Fred Thompson announced that he was probably going to run for President, the thinking was that he’d declare on the Fourth of July. It would allow him to raise funds for the entire second quarter without reporting how much he’d picked up, and the symbolism of declaring on Independence Day would’ve helped give him a nice bounce in the polls, and he would’ve dominated the news cycle. It made a lot of sense, and his supporters believed it, because they don’t believe what most people who know Fred Thompson say about him.
That he’s lazy.
Even his die-hard supporters seem to be on board with that one now. There’s a lot of evidence to support it. For one thing, he said in May he was going to run, and his campaign now says he’s poised to make an announcement...sometime in September. Presidents face crises. Almost by definition, the most important things Presidents have to do are make decisions on the fly about something that just came up. It took President Bush about four days to realize something was wrong in New Orleans. Thompson makes that look like quick thinking. Fred Thompson needs four months to decide if he wants to be President, and he's already said he does. Hamlet was more decisive.
And the Fredheads, an incredibly tolerant bunch, are starting to lose their cool. On the main Fredhead website, they seem pretty upset he’s taking them for granted, saying, “This support should be nurtured, not pushed aside and asked to stand-by forever...The time has come. Enough with the ambiguities. Enough with those around you being more decisive than you are.”
I couldn’t put it better myself. Maybe he’s wishy-washy, maybe he’s just the laziest man to ever think of running for President. And maybe, just maybe, this was his elaborate way to quit Law & Order.
