Dick Morris unloads again on Fred at TheHill.com. I'm including nearly the entire story below:He may be the tallest candidate in the race for president, but Fred Thompson is clearly in over his head!
In both his fumbling pre-candidacy period and his hesitant, attenuated post-announcement campaign, he’s given the clear impression that that he is ill-informed, inarticulate, badly briefed and downright lazy.
Consider the news his candidacy has generated:
•He skipped and is skipping the first two debates of his presidential candidacy and said he was looking forward to attending the Oct. 14 New Hampshire debate — the one that was cancelled weeks ago;•He is taking this week off from presidential campaigning;
•He does not know enough about the details of the Terry Schiavo case to comment.;
•He said that Iraqis were supporting us because of al Qaeda’s ban on smoking;
Not bad for the first two weeks of a presidential campaign! Thompson is counting on his conservative positions on social issues and the wunder-dust generated by his “Law & Order” stardom to propel him into the lead in the presidential race.
Thompson seems to lack the interest, energy, will, ability and stamina to compete at this level.
But beneath his casual, disorganized and ill-informed way of running for president, one suspects an arrogance lingers — a sense of not needing to prepare and a lethargy in the face of challenges that perhaps indicates a failure to appreciate how daunting a task running for president really is.Whatever the cause, the opening weeks of Thompson’s candidacy are, perhaps, the least auspicious of any candidate’s in recent history, and certainly the worst of the 2007-2008 electoral season.
No matter how much some people love Fred, this guy will not be able to withstand such appropriate criticisms of his campaign. He will fall in the polls.
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