My opinion – Candidates

What does a campaign truly demand of a candidate?  To become president or congress member, or even the local dogcatcher you must love talking about yourself: Talk, talk, brag and talk, every day, every evening, on national or on the local television, in the company of newspaper reporters, in every spare moment, and not just for a few days or weeks but for years and years on end. If you don't crave attention, if you don't long for admiration if you don't, and at some level, feel you are God's gift to the American people. Nonetheless in order to become the candidate, each also had to make a series of utterly ruthless decisions, choices that most nice guys would find revolting.  Any person who was ever closely connected with any politic candidate is at risk of unpleasant media exposure. No one who works for any candidate has job security, and none can expect any favors. In the meantime, they can put the finishing touches on the office bathroom with a checklist that might rival a roll of toilet paper in length.