I suspect the Fred people will be fighting a lot of straw men like Dick Morris and Michael Moore while deflecting the serious challenges. This way they can portray all challenges against their guy as being in league with the straw man nemesis.
Dick Morris is hardly ever right about anything. I don’t remember what attack I read by him about Fred Thompson a short while after Thompson announced but it made me feel good because Dick Morris is almost always wrong, especially when it comes to predicting things.