Can an ordinary honest person become a politician?

Question

Do you think that world would take that good person and bend him/her into something like the others?

Answer 1

Yes. Ron Paul for example is a very honest person and could have turned our country around but the media and the political machine behind them shot him down every chance they had and hid him from the general public. Ron has never been corrupted and is highly respected by all the other politicians. It's too bad that he has decided to drop out of the presidential race as I would have gladly voted for him.

Answer 2

Mitt Romney is that person!!

Answer 3

i think most people who go into politics are honest and good people.  its what happens to them after they get in office that seems to turn them all into crooks and cheats and hypocrites.

Answer 4

Sure, but just remember what Lord Acton once said, "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Once you're in office the powers there will corrupt you too.

Answer 5

Yes, but they won't stay that way long. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.( where does that leave God?)

Answer 6

Hahaha, that made my day.  It will never happen.  Every politician has an ulterior motive.

Answer 7

nope will never happen

Answer 8

Its not really the power and such, its the money and the favors that corrupt politicians. Good movies to watch to see this would  be Bullworth and Mr. Smith goes to Washington.

Answer 9

Yes. President Carter was as "ordinary and honest a person" as God has ever created. He was a good, Christian man who made decisions based on moral standards. The political pressure to lie, cheat, and steal never affected him in the least.

Which is precisely why he is reviled by Republicans to this very day.

Another politician who was an "ordinary, honest person" was Paul Wellstone. A finer human being has never walked the face of the earth. He never shirked his responsibility of representing his constituents, and he NEVER backed down in Washington even though he was told he'd go much further if he "played ball."

He was assassinated by the bush regime.

Answer 10

i think a person goes into politics an idealist, and then will realize that you cant be a perfect person and get stuff done, you must compromise.