The Independent has led us to a great suggestion for an unofficial motto for the Fred Thompson presidential campaign: Vote Fred Thompson 2008… Or 2009, Maybe. He’ll Get Around To It, Okay?

Fred Thompson’s supporters are getting downright ticked off at the candidate’s series of delays and excuses for not getthing his formal presidential campaign going on time. Fred Thompson is still officially exploring the possibility of becoming a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, but now that there’s just a few months before the primaries begin, Thompson is failing even to meet his exploratory campaign’s fundraising goals.

Rumors are that Fred Thompson just has a hard time getting out of bed in the morning and making himself work on the campaign. As the Independent puts it, “procrastination has cost him some of his lustre. He also has a reputation for laziness, and there are claims that he does not have the energy for presidential campaign.”

Well, Fred Thompson certainly is positioning himself well to appeal to the lazy procrastinators among American citizens. Of course, that’s not the most reliable group of Americans. Most of them still haven’t gotten around to filling out a registration to vote, you see, and even those who do register find it to be just too much work to get out and actually vote.

The sloth seems to have infected Fred Thompson’s once bright and cheery supporters, the self-described FredHeads, who don’t even bother to complain when we criticize Fred Thompson any more… too much work.