Still, c’mon. A 30-day, 27-stage, 22-state race from New York to San Francisco? True, there was a full moon when we first heard of it, but that’s no excuse for lunacy of this magnitude. A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, but not by so wide a margin. We’ve already gotten a few hundred letters on the topic, most of them along the lines of, “Bwaah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.”