Fred seems to be doing just fine
The funny - and admittedly endearing - allure of listening to Dick Morris is his tendency to be exactly 180 degrees off-base exactly 50% of the time. While sometimes it's a game to figure out which predictions are so endowed, that time is not now.
For many candidates, delay means that they don’t have to stand out and be targets until later in the game. But for Thompson, delay could be fatal. The major negative against the former Tennessee senator is that he lacks the heart or the fire in the belly to compete and win. With Hillary Clinton looming as the expected Democratic nominee, victory is of surpassing importance to the Republican primary electorate. Republicans will not nominate someone who they think is ambivalent about running.Morris is clearly projecting his beltway mentality on flyover country, where distancing yourself from the rabid rush for federal power is NEVER a bad thing.During his Senate tenure, Thompson’s work habits were suspect. The New York Times recently (gently) noted that he was not known as one of the hardest working senators. The very fact that he left the Senate after only eight years in office raised suspicions that he was distracted by the allure of Hollywood and the joys of private life. Too long a delay in announcing his candidacy could fuel such speculation and create a negative that need not exist for the actor turned politician turned actor.
Keep up the good work, Fred!
