If you want Fred, you should suck it up and get used to the tease. This is far and away his best strategy. Right now he isn't officially a candidate and he isn't spending any money and yet he's getting a flood of free publicity. People are organizing the closest thing to a true grassroots draft movement that I've seen in a long, long time.
Meanwhile Fred can keep filling in for Paul Harvey with pithy radio essays, and his Law & Order show can remain on the air. More and more polls will include his name and show him moving up. Why in the world would he want to short-circuit all these benefits by formally declaring and becoming just another contender?
Sometime in the fall he can finally throw his hat into the ring, and begin collecting money and campaigning in the early primary states. In the meantime he'll just keep having visible meetings with prominent people and making statements every now and then that he's "still leaving the door open".
Yep, you get a lot more buzz when it is still speculation.
If he waits until Fall, he will have one less volunteer, because I will have a heart attack!!
:)
Fred has plenty of time.