i dunno, maybe we should look at a higher office for him. from the aritcles i've read, he seems to be fairly conservative, anyone know his politics or if he would ever run for office?
"anyone know his politics"
His dad was the famous economist, Herb Stein, who was an adviser to Richard Nixon. He got his Republican leanings with his mother's milk.
Ben Stein was himself a speechwriter for Nixon.
There is a photo around of a much younger Ben with long hair, sitting in the room when Nixon was resigning, Ben with tears running down his face.
I don't have the photo, but have seen it.
http://www.townhall.com/notables/stein.html
Ben Stein is a Reagan-style Republican. He used to work for the old Los Angeles Herald-Examiner before it went out of business in the early 1980's. Stein wrote a regular op-ed syndicated column for that newspaper. He is a brilliant writer who was and remains solidly Reaganesque in his opinions.
After the H-E folded, Ben went on to a career in films, TV commercials, and other ventures.
Among other things, he loves dogs. I know, because he once wrote a very touching article about one of his beloved dogs who passed away. I spoke to Ben about it and offered him a puppy out of a litter one of my German Wirehaired Pointers was expecting at the time.
I doubt very sincerely that he would ever run for political office.