Things have been quiet since Fred Thompson surprised no-one by announcing his candidacy for President. In fact, it’s been too quiet.

These are the words of Alan Keyes as he declared his candidacy for president on Janet Parshall’s nationally syndicated radio program, “I will be participating in the Values Voter Debate on Monday as a candidate, and I will be trying my best — as I forever have, in the course of the years that I have been involved at this level in politics”

Oh, thank goodness. Andrew and Joy lived in Illinois when Alan Keyes ran against Barack Obama, so we got to hear from them about how Jesus Christ wouldn’t vote for Obama and how Obama’s views on abortion were “the slaveholder’s position”. Then there was that time he criticized John McCain for going to a Nine Inch Nails concert with his daughter, saying that McCain was “aiding and abetting the cultural murder that is taking place”. To top it all off, he provided empirical evidence for the Crazification Factor.

I will admit to a perverse fascination with train-wreck politics. I know, I know, I should rise above such things. And yet, I can’t help but think, Is there any way the Republican Presidential field could get even more entertaining?

One of the most divisive figures in American politics during Bill Clinton’s presidency is contemplating a ‘wild-card’ run for the White House in a desperate bid to oppose his old enemy’s wife – Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Republican Newt Gingrich is so unimpressed with his own party’s ‘chaotic’ line-up of candidates to replace President Bush in the 2008 elections that he has threatened to make a dramatic late entry into the race.

Eeeeeeeexcellent.