When they discovered what they had to do and whom they had to become to STAY in office they fled.
They wanted NO PART of it.
Many who would also be excellent will never run for political office since they are unwilling to drop down that low...the bellycrawlers who have to live in the mud and scum to carry on.
EVERYONE? No. Of course not. But enough to dissuade them to avoid the snakepit of politics since for the most part to stay you have to become a snake.
