The Failure of Normality

The Weekly Standard ^ | 1/26/08 | Andrew Ferguson

[VanShuyten]

As Groucho Marx said, “I’d never join a country club that would have me as a member!”

[Intolerant in NJ]

In his recent memoir, Alan Greenspan says he's been pushing a constitutional amendment of his own devising. It reads: "Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office."...sort of a modern-day Catch 22 - anybody crazy enough to want to be president is too crazy to be allowed to have the job......

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Don't we WANT someone who has the fire?

If by that we mean someone who is consumed by the desire to be president, ala Hillary/Bill, I would say no. All I ever heard Fred say was that was not his approach to the task but that if he did not want to be president or did not think he would do a good job as such, he would not be in the race. That was good enough for me.

[durasell]

The President of the United States is not a normal job. Yeah, you want a normal, well-rounded guy to run the shipping department at the local plumbing supply firm — you don’t want a normal, well-rounded guy in the Oval Office.

[devere]

“Don’t we WANT someone who has the fire?”

No.

We want a George Washington, or an Eisenhower, or a Fred Thompson.

It wasn’t Fred who failed. It was the Republican voters.