Former Tennessee Senator and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson has quit the Republican presidential race after a string of poor finishes in early primary and caucus states.

Thompson ran one of the most lackluster campaigns I've ever seen. It's as if he never really wanted to be President and only threw his hat in the ring because some advisors - or maybe his agent - told him it could up his profile.

So that leaves McCain, Huckabee and Romney fighting for the Republican nomination. I know Rudy and Ron Paul are still officially on the ballot, but you know that neither of them is going to get the nomination.

On the Democrat side, it looks like a two person race. Let's check in with Christopher Hitchens to see what he has to say in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed :

Here again, the problem is that Sen. Obama wants us to transcend something at the same time he implicitly asks us to give that same something as a reason to vote for him. I must say that the lyricism with which he does this has double and triple the charm of Mrs. Clinton's heavily-scripted trudge through the landscape, but the irony is still the same.

What are we trying to "get over" here? We are trying to get over the hideous legacy of slavery and segregation. But Mr. Obama is not a part of this legacy. His father was a citizen of Kenya, an independent African country, and his mother was a "white" American. He is as distant from the real "plantation" as I am. How -- unless one thinks obsessively about color while affecting not to do so -- does this make him "black"?

I wonder how sloshed he was when he penned that gem..........