To many good people will not run either and it's because no matter what they do they will be attacked. It's a given that a Republican will be attacked by the media and the Democrats.
It makes the job even more unattractive when one stands the chance of being attacked by one's own party because one is not a robotic cool aid drinker.
Too true. Someone made a comment on (I believe it was O'Reilly) Friday night that 10 years ago a story like this would have been ignored by both the GOP and the Dems and not used to beat the other party over the head.
Politics in this country has truly become a blood sport.