Someone's floating the rumor that Donald Trump will run for governor, and Baseball Crank seems less than impressed:

I have neither the time nor the energy here to recount the downsides of Trump as a public official (or as a campaigner), but let's just say there's no shortage of those, either. And he'd be only the most nominal of Republicans, even compared to Weld.

William Weld would obviously be a lot more liberal than many Republicans would like to see running on the ticket for New York governor in 2006. But so would Rudy Giuliani, arguably the strongest Republican politician the state has produced in a generation. (Giuliani would be hard to beat but he's not running.)

There are only two problems with Trump running for governor:

1) He'd have no patience for state lawmakers and 2) state lawmakers (and special interest groups) would have no patience for him.

And that's to say nothing about what would be a long list of potential conflicts of interest (real estate, gambling, for starters) that would keep Trump lawyers and publicists busy for years.

Would Trump make a good governor? He'd be fun to watch, but it will never happen.