Political Parties Doing A Good Job Choosing the Candidates?

[From article]
So far, it looks as if we will be forced to choose a president from a slate of mediocrities and monstrosities. With the fate of our country already precarious, and with no Eisenhower or Reagan in sight,
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But in these desperate times, we have a right to expect a president to devote the rest of his life solely to the welfare of the nation, to the exclusion of any personal motive. In this regard, Ronald Reagan was an admirable example and William Jefferson Clinton a despicable one.
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G.K. Chesterton once proposed that the only person fit to be king is somebody who doesn’t want the job. I think we have come to the converse impasse: the only people who want to run for president and who have a chance of getting elected are those who are unfit for the job.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/lets_play_fantasy_president.html

December 4, 2015
Let's Play Fantasy President
By Paul J. Shlichta