Can I come, too, George?

I wondered what the heck Orrin Hatch was up to with his presidential candidacy. He didn't have a weird ax to grind, a la Alan Keyes. And virtually no one had expressed any interest in voting for him before he came in dead last in the Republican caucuses in Iowa and quit.

Jonathan Chait, a political writer for The New Republic, theorizes that Hatch was just trying to get close enough to Dubya to get a cabinet job, or, dare he hope, the v.p. slot. Man, the stuff people will do.