TV News: Law and Order Candidate Hopes to Climb from Arthur Branch to Executive Branch

(L-R) D.A. Arthur Branch and Architect's Guild member Mike Brady react to inevitable Geico Caveman presidential candidacy announcement

Be-Jowled Republican actor Fred Thompson will use Jay Leno's show to announce his candidacy according to Nikki Finke's always entertaining Deadline Hollywood Daily blog. Thompson has been cast repeatedly by liberal Hollywood as an authority figure in such films as Baby's Day Out, Aces: Iron Eagle III, and Curly Sue. If elected this would be his fourth try at the Presidency, having been President in the TV movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (where he played U.S. Grant), Last Best Chance, and in Rachel and Andrew Jackson (as the voice of Andrew Jackson). He has also been an FBI agent, a rear admiral, and is best known for his role as the D.A. on TV's Law and Order. No word yet on whether Joe Don Baker's agents are sending him out for the same debates.