The comeback Kennedy?

Yellow Peril has noticed this story about Charles Kennedy on a visit to Devon. Amongst the comments he made was this:

I would have liked to contest the leadership election, because there is now a question mark in the air which members could have decided, had my name been on the ballot paper.

Hmm... a question mark over the incumbent (who has had no end of problems) and a sense of still being popular with the membership. The Lib Dems are desperately searching for a leader - could the answer be staring them in the past?