IN RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ABOUT HALEY BARBOUR, reader Blake Daniels writes:

From the article about Barbour and Obama heading to the trail 19 mos. prior to an election. All true. But, maybe even a deeper deeper problem is, who but a crazy person would sing up for what Haley Barbour accurately described as the commitment to win today’s presidency? Maybe not crazy but certainly some sort of personality disorder.

Yes, I was on this problem back in 2001:

But if Kaus is right, our system actually selects for people who love the job. And since, as most people (perhaps even Kaus) would agree, being President is a job no sane person could really love for eight years then what does that say about our Presidential selection system? Is it selecting for kooks?

Read the whole thing, which includes a slogan that I think would be perfect for the Trump campaign . . . .