Fred Thompson to Delay Official Entry Until August

    There's word that Fred Thompson will delay his official presidential announcement until at least mid-August. It's a good strategic move. While he's essentially done nothing, John McCain has imploded and the other contenders continue to take flak on the campaign trail and diminish themselves in debates. He gets to skip the Iowa August straw poll cattle show, which would have done him no favors. And, he keeps an itching to get into the race Newt Gingrich off balance.
    A cynic would say that Fred Thompson has a career-long record of perfecting the art of doing nothing, so perhaps it's not surprising that he's gotten such mileage by sitting on the sidelines. But all things come to an end and eventually candidate Thompson will have to do some official campaiging. Unless, of course, he plans to revive William McKinley's 1896 "front porch campaign" and run the most unusual race in modern history. It would certainly be another way to do, well, nothing.