THE KOOCH STRIKES BACK. News that Dennis Kucinich is willing to swoop in and provide the Democratic Party with a real bigfoot for 2008 isn't terrifically surprising. It's the same thing with Mike Gravel or, to some degree, Biden: Whether you think you'll actually become president, for a certain type of politician, actually running for president is a lot of fun. People listen to you, you participate in closely watched debates, you join in the pageantry of a campaign, you get face time in the national press and, always lurking at the edge of the probability distribution, you could just unexpectedly break through. Indeed, what's surprising is not that so many folks run for president, but that so few do. I guess it's a rare ego that can take the inflation of a campaign without being too afraid of the likely rejection at the end of it. --Ezra Klein
