Ute

  There are people who are in politics for the right reason, which is to represent others and give them a voice.  They want to make a better place, not just for the people who voted for them, but also for all of the people.  It is a noble calling.  Of course, there are others who get the bad press, because they are just in it to stuff their pockets with money and forget about the voters, until the next election comes around.  Everyone has an opinion on who is the good person and who is the bad person, but these next two were in the good category in my humble opinion, which of course is the right one.

 The first was Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina.  He liked to be called "Fritz".  He was from the Charleston area, and he had a Southern drawl that identified him as such.  No matter what some people said about him, he was a gentleman.  My brother was on his staff, mostly writing speeches.  I could always tell if my brother wrote a speech, because he would put words in it with many syllables.  He said it made the person sound smarter, even though no one knew what the words meant.  Fritz didn't really need those big words.  He was smart without them.  I met him, when he was the governor of South Carolina.  I was just a kid, but I got to go to the Governor's Mansion on a tour.  He knew my family name from my relatives in Charleston.  He was very gracious.

 The other good man was Jon Huntsman.  His resume of service was long and distinguished.  He was the Governor of Utah.  He was the United States Ambassador to Russia, China and Singapore.  He was a candidate for President in 2012.  I met him in 2011, when he filed to be in the Republican primary in South Carolina.  He dropped out of the race for President before the primary happened.  Mitt Romney eventually got the nomination but lost to Obama.  Huntsman was very personable and wanted to find out what people thought.  As they got off of their campaign bus, I met his wife and several of his children.  He had a big family.  He was certainly qualified to be President, but he just couldn't get any traction.  

 Sometimes, the voters don't want the more qualified people to be the President.  Fritz briefly ran for the job, but he had to drop out.  A lot of the time, it isn't how much you know about the job ahead of time; it is more about how good you look on TV.  It is about charisma.  We have had some presidents who had both--being qualified to be President and looking good on TV.  It is said that Abraham Lincoln could not have won, if TV was around back then because of his lack of good looks.  He wouldn't have looked good on TV, no matter how much makeup they used on him.  Maybe some Botox would have helped.