My first choice is honesty and intelligence. Both trump accomplishment, especially when so much is rigged now a days. I do not think the kind of candidates I like have been around for two+ hundred years. People like Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln and even Chet Arthur: “No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted, and no one ever retired… more generally respected.” Author Mark Twain, deeply cynical about politicians, conceded, “It would be hard indeed to better President Arthur’s administration.”
