Howard Kurtz: GOP's 2012 Presidential Candidates Need to Get in the Race - The Daily Beast: "First, the presidency is a pretty cool job. You get a nice mansion with backyard, a bowling alley, a chef, your own helicopter, and an impressive pile of nuclear weapons. No one forced these folks to stir up presidential speculation. The agonizing is getting old.
Second, as nutty and nightmarish as the process may be, it's not an irrational way to pick a president. The pressures of running, defining a message, mastering the issues, and fending off attacks is a rough proxy for managing the burdens of the Oval Office. If a candidate can't galvanize supporters during a campaign, how can he or she rally the country during a Wall Street meltdown or a war? 'In a classic mythological sense,' says former Joe Biden aide Ron Klain, 'it tests the candidate in every respect—physically, mentally, emotionally. It weeds people out.'
Donald Trump loudly proclaimed he was serious this time, right until the day he had to re-up with Celebrity Apprentice—for a payday worth up to $60 million. 'It was very hard because I was doing so well in terms of the polls,' Trump tells me. 'Do you give up a top show on television with a tremendous amount of money for the privilege of running for a year and a half?' Well, some people might."
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