Comment: Responding to Mr. Moss'es letter and not to the posts in response to his letter, I have to say that I think the mainstream media is responsible for the lack of quality in presidential and other candidates.
I post this because any candidate, be he or she a Republican, Democrat, or Independent, is so severely scrutinized by the media that they drive away quality candidates. A possible fact may be that any of us who are human and not saints, have probably committed acts in the past, especially in our youth, of which we are not proud and would not want disseminated in the media.
If that's true, it makes running for office, especially President of the United States, at the very least, a distasteful endeavor and at worst, a career-spoiling, character assassinating undertaking.