(continuing the thought in the subject line.... Why would anyone vote for...) ... a Senator or Congress-person for President?
I ask this because after talking with my wife the other day, I realized that one of the things that really lessens many of the Senators and Congress-persons as candidates for President is that these same individuals will tout their plans for the future and tell us all that they have fixes for all that ill's the country, yet they are the same individuals that typically sat in Congress and did next to nothing while there.
Sure, some of these candidates have had great records, sponsored much legislation, co-sponsored much, and helped vote for much along the way. But really, in the end, these individuals also had to be ignoring the "problems" they are promising to fix if they are elected to the office of President, or they must not have gotten much help from any of their party members while there, otherwise their solutions would already have been implemented.
It seems so hypocritical that someone who didn't have enough "leadership" while in Congress to get their important plans implemented can suddenly be able to get the same non-cooperative body (Congress) to go along with the plan(s) they promise they'll put into effect if they are elected by the voters.
Am I off base here? Or have I "discovered" why we seem to have elected so many former Governors and others to the office in recent history?
