Just when you thought the ‘08 playing field was a little bit crowded and already stacked with a few dark horses… In rides another one…

Move over, Mike Gravel. Step aside, Dennis Kucinich. There’s a new dark horse to the rescue.

Faster than a Mach3 razor, more powerful than a laser hair remover, and able to pluck long hairs in a single bound, they call him: Tweezerman.

Actually, he calls himself Tweezerman. “I do have the legal right to call myself Tweezerman,” says Tweezerman, whose real name is Dal LaMagna.

LaMagna, a businessman who sold his company, Tweezerman Corp., in 2004 for about $50 million, is not exactly a political novice. He has run twice unsuccessfully for Congress in New York’s Third District on Long Island, including in 1996, when he embraced his alter-ego and handed out 10,000 tweezers inscribed “Tweezerman for Congress.”

But now that he has officially entered the 2008 Democratic presidential primary sweepstakes – he launched his campaign web site just today – the man who made his fortune off the misfortune of unsightly facial hair (and big-toe hair, nose hair and other unspeakably unwanted fuzz) wants to project a more, well, presidential image.

“No, I’m not going to be giving out tweezers again,” LaMagna told the Sleuth in a telephone interview today. “This is not a joke campaign. This is serious.”

Tweerman, aka LaMagna, The Sleuth reports “spends time blogging at Huffingtonpost.com.” He’s dreaming big even though he realizes he’s got a slim chance… But hey, with pickings out there already we may well need some good tweezers to find out where the candidates stand on the issues.

Wake me when the three ring circus is over.

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