.......Thompson's testing-the-waters bit is about to come to an end, with supporters expect an announcement early next month. Some in the Midwest said he's waited too long.
"You can't wait to get a mandate from the people," said Elizabeth Morris, a community publisher and councilwoman in Indiana's Dearborn County. "Either a person has a fire in the belly or they don't."
Said her husband, Gary, an investment banker: "He's already shown that inability to act quickly and decisively. That's the way it comes off."
Joan Wright, 79, wondered whether Thompson is lazy or egotistical......
No one likes to be kept waiting.And.....
Some Thompson supporters are hoping to bring back Fred's old red pick up truck to the campaign trail.
(I can't understand why they think Americans want to see an old guy on the back of an old truck.)
Washington Post:
Fred Thompson's old pickup truck sits behind his mother's house in a Nashville suburb, more than a dozen years after it was credited with helping him win his first bid for public office.....
.....Thompson so far has not appeared eager to climb back in. At his first public event in Nashville after forming a "testing the waters" committee in June, he shook off an attempt by supporters to have him address the crowd from the back of a brand new red pickup truck they had brought to the event.
It appears that some desperate Republicans are waiting for a savior to rescue them. It may not happen.
