Nice try, thanks for playing.
How many people will spend millions to get a $200,000 a year job in a bad neighborhood and have the responsibility for a nuclear launch hovering in the wings?
I don't know what you consider 'normal', but 'normal' people wouldn't want the responsibility for multiples of the paycheck. Misplaced ambition? Only if he couldn't do the job--and that goes for any of them.
So you’re acknowledging that Ted is a flawed and weak candidate?