Running for President always seemed like a slightly insane decision to me. "Running for vice president" (i.e., not running for President, but managing to get picked as the VP candidate) seems like a much better option. 2-3 months of campaigning vs. 18-21 months. Much lower probability of investing a huge amount of time for very little return... reasonable probability of getting to be President in 8 years, if that's what you want.

So, yeah. If anybody wants me as VP, I'll be ready and waiting starting in 2016.

Wait, aren't they still keeping a spot open for Gaddafi as the RNC choic?

Hmm. David Brooks doesn't seem to think Mitch Daniels is "hopelessly damaged." You should read his column in today's NYT.

the clearest evidence that one is unfit to serve as POTUS is the hubris to declare one's candidacy for POTUS.

Obama will steamroll whoever winds up driving this clown car.

Any candidate that David Brooks endorses is a candidate I know to avoid.

I'm confident Joad Cressbeckler will throw his hat into the ring soon.

Haley Barbour's going to have trouble getting nominated given his former employment as a lobbyist paid by Mexico to lobby for immigration amnesty. Of course, Mitt -- the only partly-sane one of the bunch -- has that whole "I passed universal health care" problem.

@7: "That whole 'I passed universal health care' problem."

Only in the US could that achievement possibly be considered a problem. Up here we've practically canonized the first guy who did that.

@8,. not even in the US. But in the Republican primary struggle, you bet your bippy. They'll be falling over themselves to cagsti-, castgit-, sgastica-, dag nab it, SAY BAD THINGS about that durn soshializm.

Please stop using the word schmuck as a negative.

"Schmuck" is a negative, you putz.

Gary Johnson, the pro-choice, anti-prohibition, anti-war, anti-PATRIOT ACT candidate for the Republican nomination will be a breath of fresh air. Too bad he doesn't have a chance.

Clown car? That's a fucking bus.