What happens when a nonpolitician, who has been successful in business and is not a kook, decides to run for president of the United States?
It begins to resemble a Jimmy Stewart movie.
Matt Labash, writing in The Weekly Standard, relates the poignant story of John Cox.
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Not a kook? Did you read the article?
Yes. I wouldn't vote for the guy but I didn't see anything that would automatically lead to a conclusion of kookhood. Now Harold Stassen, on the other hand, was a kook.
The article outlines how Cox snuck into the Reagan Library debate's "Spin Room" posing as a press photographer, and was escorted from the library grounds by security.
After he was thrown out, he went back to his hotel room and filmed his answers to the debate questions, then spliced them into the footage of the MSNBC debate making it look like he had attended. It was kooky and a copyright violation. YouTube deleted the video within hours of it going up there.
Both examples were detailed in the article, along with a major Cox news conference in which two reporters showed up and many other cases were cited showing this guy has a major ego problem.
He's also EXACTLY like Harold Stassen, since like him, he's run and run and run and lost elections (for US Congress, US Senate and even Chicago's Recorder of Deeds!)
At least Stassen was elected as governor of MN before running for president. Cox has been elected to nothing. It's kooky to think he can jump from perrennial candidate to president.
I cut him slack on all of that. He's one of the darkest of dark horses and is desperate to get some press coverage, just as some candidates crash press conferences of their opponents. In a world in which someone like Al Sharpton - and when was the last time he was elected to anything? - gets coverage, this guy is just trying to get into the spin room. Do I approve of his tactics? No. But unlike Stassen, who'd been thoroughly considered and rejected, this guy is feeling that he didn't have a chance to make his case. Your points are thoughtful ones, but I'd classify him more as a sad case than as a kook.
Sad case? I'll buy that. Very sad.
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