WASHINGTON - So Mike Pence is out. The question remains, as it has for some time: Who, exactly, is in?

Here's the quick and dirty answer: Herman Cain, Fred Karger and Jimmy McMillan.

Those are not the starting down linemen for the Green Bay Packers. Cain is a talk show host and former pizza company CEO from Georgia, Karger is a California political consultant and gay activist and McMillan is the leader of the "Rent is Too Damn High" party in New York, and is now probably best known for being parodied on "Saturday Night Live."

That's the current Republican field for the 2012 presidential race.

Pence, a congressman from Indiana, told supporters in a letter Thursday that he would not pursue the presidency, disappointing some conservative activists looking for some fresh blood in a field currently populated by a bevy of familiar faces.

At this point in 2007, GOP candidates who had formally declared included John McCain, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Tommy Thompson and Duncan Hunter. (Not to mention a fellow named Barack Obama on the Democratic side.)