by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

…. be willing, to be President, that is.

But — as always I refuse to “run”; therefore, if the people of this nation want me to be President they’ll have to draft me.

I believe any citizen should be willing to accept being drafted in that sort of fashion.  I’m 60, so hardly a spring chicken, but its entirely reasonable to believe that I’ll live out two terms in office without going either demented or dying outright.  Unlike most these days I don’t have an extra 100+lbs hanging around, I require no prescribed medication of any sort but I will tell you right up front that I’m not going to submit to the poking and prodding that some people think should be routine nor is any such going to be published if I was to win the office.  If you need to see up my ass in order to vote for me, in short, you can go screw a goat right now — vote for someone else.  There shouldn’t be a “White House physician” and in my opinion you shouldn’t vote for someone who needs one.