This “common sense” advice is of course, promoted by the MSM because they want either Hillary or Rudy. A divided Republican party means Rudy gets the nomination. Fred does not have the resources to take on Hillary in the general election. He does have the name recognition to be a spoiler for Mitt Romney.
Objectively, you really have to love Fred to say that his performance on Meet the Depressed was anything but C-.
He will, if he is the Republican party nominee.