I sure as hell hope not.
Right now he's got the Mamma-Grizzly drawing the fire away from him. But laying low too long is the Fred Thompson strategy and wont work. Eventually he will have to come out of hiding, MSNBC seems to like him, at least Matthews anyway.
A good thing to hope for is for an articulate accomplished (like governor) 'conservative' (no TARP, no amnesty, no abortion past support) who doesn't have a bunch of basket-case sounding partisan past quotes that they will feel the need to run from, and who has not been over exposed, or under-experienced politically. We need someone to unite conservatives and moderates like Reagan did.