Poor Fred: The End

All that needs to be said on this subject is: If you want to convince voters that you're a reluctant candidate responding to the spontaneous call of the masses, you might be more convincing if you weren't getting into everybody's face all over the campaign trail making that claim. If you want to play the reluctant candidate, stay home and let other people make commercials and websites about you. Otherwise you look like an idiot when people ask themselves: "If he doesn't really want the job, then what is he doing here?" F.D. Thompson will be spared history's harsh judgment only if Florida and Feb. 5 prove Rudolph Giuliani to be an even bigger idiot.