Quote from TGregg:
A big part of the problem is the process. You've got to be at least a little mad for power to go through all the nonsense required just to run for office. Even if you are an excellent candidate, you still only have about a one in four chance of winning your party's nomination. Then about a 50% chance of winning the presidency. And you have to kiss all that ass and beg for donations and convince as many people as possible that you are on every side of every issue. You have to deal with unimaginable loads of pure crap just to get elected. Even if it was a sure thing, nobody in their right mind would go for it. Nobody capable, any way. Even just the media digging up as much dirt as possible and making it up when nothing really nasty can be found - just that part alone is not worth it.
Then, after doing all that (which is far more than enough to keep me from ever running even if I somehow actually had a chance), you get into office. And the BS really starts. People call you Hitler, lunatics everywhere want to shoot you down. You have to make friends and work with a lot of serious scum, ranging from foreign dictator/thugs to complete loony toons in Congress (take Maxine Waters for one easy example). The only way a top qualified individual would ever try is if he had an unbelievable level of patriotism. And that would vanish in days once he made it to the Oval Office and took a good look around. Actually, it undoubtedly is beaten out of him well before that.
We won't get a capable commander in chief unless we change the system. And that's not ever going to happen, sad to say.
