[pt17]

He came very late to the party and then acted like he didn’t want to be there.

[decimon]

He came very late to the party and then acted like he didn’t want to be there.

Not wanting to be there could go to his favor.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"...acted like he didn’t want to be there."

That was the best part! These walking, talking personifications of blind ambition who wake up each day, salute the voices in their heads and commence their strutting and preening towards their life-long entitlement to the Presidency frighten me. Fred's "All right, if no one else is gonna do it, I guess I'll have to" attitude was a breath of fresh air.

Sigh. Good times.

[Ghengis]

He came very late to the party and then acted like he didn’t want to be there.

In my view, he was pulled into his candidacy by loyalists who know his philosophies. He holds the current political process in contempt because of the contempt most successful politicians show their constituents.

I like his Federalist principles and I believe him to be honest. We lost when his candidacy ended. Not Fred Thompson.