Naturally Talented Politicians Re-Invent Themselves As Needed

One thing we know about naturally talented politicians - they have more lives than the Joplin cat that crawled out of the rubble after sixteen days. Natural talent brings these folks back into the spotlight, sometimes in more powerful positions than before. Here are a few examples of such people, a list that should not be construed as an endorsement of any of them.

Bill Clinton is still a bright star, despite all the times his career was completely over, vanished and kaput. If he didn't have natural talent, he'd never have made it out of Arkansas.

Newt Gingrich, we are told, is so completely out of it today that he'll never again have any public impact. But they've been saying this about Newt for decades.

Charley Rangel was lucky not to go to jail. He was so completely exhausted as a political force that nobody would ever again shake his hand. Today, however, we're reading reports that not only did Rangel keep his job, his opinions are even sought after.

Richard Nixon's career as a national figure was over in 1953, they said. He was thought to be so politically leprous that he should spend the rest of his days in obscurity. However, Nixon kept re-emerging as a serious candidate for higher offices as he went along. He was re-elected president in a landslide in 1972, only to be run out of town in 1974.

One identifier of natural politicians is that as a group they tend to be self-made. They start out from nowhere and re-invent themselves periodically as the times call for. Just when people think the natural politicians are gone forever, they are once again in the public eye.



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