Enough of the dancing around, jump in this race and win it! You are too old to be coy and the stakes are too damn high.
Fred Thompson is not, repeat not, being coy! He is developing a solid, credible, and hopefully unbeatable team of support from which to launch his campaign.
By waiting he differentiates himself from the other glad handing, money grovelling, politicians. When he launches, I predict it will be a campaign, sucessful of not, that will shake American politics for years to come.
I believe he will launch with a fully fleshed out agenda and set of principles, and perhaps a few of this key Cabinet positions already named. He is not a panderer. He will not campaign in the normal sense. He will tell the American public how he views the challanges we face, his program to get about solving them and leave it to the American public to decide. Sure he will travel, make speeches, kiss a few babies....but basically he will not pander to this group or that....he will have an agenda. You will buy it or you won't. He's not going to flip-flop to please any one group.
The contrast between Thompson and anyone else will be stark!!