I'm a politics junkie, I follow politics even when there are no elections in the immediate future. So it amazes me that there are people announcing for President of whom I've never heard. What can such people be thinking?
The lack of realism on the part of dark horse candidates in the major parties is amazing. I suppose their hope is that lightening will strike, somehow. Does anybody else find this behavior inexplicable?
I'm even having trouble imagining any of the front-runners as president. Maybe that explains the motivation of these 'fringe' candidates, perhaps they can't either. I begin to suspect that there is something about the modern political process in the U.S. that drives talented people away while attracting supreme egotists.
