In an early episode of The West Wing, Leo McGarry has just fired the only political advisors that Jed Bartlett, running for President, has ever known. Bartlett is stunned. He doesn't know why McGarry, who is a bigger player in the Democrat party than he is, wants to be involved with his campaign.
Bartlett:
Why are you doing this?
McGarry:
Because I'm tired of it. Year after year after year after year, having to choose between the lesser of Who Cares? Of trying to get myself excited about a candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar so low, I can hardly look at it. They say a good man can't get elected President. I don't believe that, do you?
As it happens, I don't. But I do think that it's damned unlikely.
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