It takes thick skin to be a President. Look at what the media does to them and their family, especially Republican runners. Who would want to go through all that?
It's the media and press why we don't get a better selection of people to run.
Yeah, the media really picks on Don don't they. Maybe we shouldn't have deregulated the FCC (Clinton) which resulted in 50 some odd companies being monopolized down to half a dozen multinational corporations controlling the US media mindfuck machine.
Show me a Republican contender they haven't attacked. Hell, while I'm no Romney fan, he's one of the most clean cut guys we've ever had: Married to the same woman his entire life, good kids--no trouble makers, never smoked, drank, or took any recreational narcotics, never in trouble with the law.
By the time they got done with him, he was an anti-American draft dodger who hated animals, a tax cheat, and responsible for the spouse of one of his employees that died.
That's why few want to run for President.