THEY’RE OFF AND RUNNING: Roger Simon reports from the Iowa “Roast and Ride” event. “The ‘Roast & Ride’ was great fun and judged a success by all. As for the candidates, it takes a special breed of person to be president of the United States — or even want to be — and I got to do video interviews with five of them in one day in Boone and, I have to admit, liked them all. No surprise there. If these people can’t be charming and ingratiating, they should be in another business. I also saw seven — count ‘em, seven — give speeches at the Ernst event and liked six of them.”