General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: We need to run a goody goody two shoes,i.e. super clean guy like Jimmy Carter in 2020. [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,493 posts)And Michelle Obama clearly has no interest in doing so.
Cory Booker strikes me as something of a sleaze bag.
Some of the others might be okay.
My main problem is that all of them are already on the scene. An important reason Trump did so well this year is that he truly was an outsider to politics. A lot of people thought that was refreshing. A lot of people think that government can be run like business, and while they're completely wrong about that, it's a meme that has been gathering strength for quite a while now.
Carter was an outsider to DC and national politics, although he'd been Governor of Georgia. I was living in the DC area when he was elected, and I recall that the inside the Beltway types were completely unhappy with him. It's my opinion that eventually his administration will be looked back upon as a genuine model of honesty and decency, and if the ONLY thing he'd accomplished were the peace accords, that should put him in the history books as one of our better Presidents.