My inbox is full of e-mail in full-throated support of an idea we discussed earlier: Bolton for President. Some say, “My friends and I have talked about this for months.” Readers really want to bypass secretary of state altogether and send Bolton right to the Oval Office. In fact, that may be easier for JRB: election by the people over confirmation by the Senate. Seriously, shouldn’t there be some outside-the-box candidates in 2012? A Petraeus, a Bolton? Must the field include only the same old suspects? Do you know a clearer thinker, a sharper speaker, a bolder official than Bolton? The times could use a guy like him, frankly. And in debate against Obama — wow. Many readers have said, “About time we had a president with a mustache.” That’s what President Bush used to call him, or called him at least once: “The Man with the Mustache.” Readers also said, “When was the last time we had a president with glasses? Bush 41? How about before that?” A lot of people mentioned TR: mustachioed and bespectacled. Finally, one reader said, “We conservatives always set our sights too low. Forget having Bolton as president. Make him dictator for a day, à la Friedman and China.” Yeah, and don’t forget that Woody Allen wants to confer dictatorial powers on Obama, too (temporarily, to be sure). Anyway, I think I feel a draft . . . “Bolton for President.” To paraphrase an old line — I learned this from Bob Novak; a 19th-century Republican speaker of the House said it, I think — “The Republican party and the American people could do worse, and probably will.” By the way, if you’d like to read my review of Bolton’s book, Surrender Is Not an Option — which I described as “an autobiography, a chronicle of recent world history, a dissection of government, a portrait of the George W. Bush administration, [and] a foreign-policy treatise, or series of them” — go here.