Fred Thompson’s roll-out into the primary race is already being reported by the media and through comments by pundits as less than exciting, to be nice, and former Speaker Gingrich is talking more and more like he may enter the race.

In an interview with the National Journal Gingrich says democrats right now have 80-20 odds of winning the presidency in 2008 and that none of the Republicans at the moment are offering “change” in a way that many Americans want. In the past Gingrich had called the Republican candidates, sans Thompson, “pathetic” bunch “of pygmies”.

A tantalizing tidbit from the interview on 2008 is “The most tempting thought about running next year is the idea of debating Senator Clinton. That would be fun.” Gingrich goes on to say “She is actually much more centrist than MoveOn.org. She is much tougher on military affairs than [her party's] Left. She is more rational, and I have very great respect for her as a hardworking professional. No Republican should think she is going to be easy to beat. But I have watched her now for a year be gradually pulled to the left. Her husband was too clever to do that.”

So is he really thinking about running or just giving the media runaround?