Surprise

One of the criticisms I've heard of Fred Thompson the political candidate (and as a Senator) is he is not known as a particularly hard worker, especially as a campaigner.

It looks like Fred wants to let others do the heavy lifting in his own campaign:

In an interview with USA TODAY, however, the former Tennessee senator not only makes it clear that he plans to run, he describes how he aims to do it. He's planning an unconventional campaign using blogs, video posts and other Internet innovations to reach voters repelled by politics-as-usual in both parties.

In other words, "I'm going to sit on my ass as much as possible."

Yeah, that'll work.