Successful Politician [suhk-ses-fuhl pol-uh-tish-uhn]: (n.) Someone mad for power who is utterly unprincipled in his or her quest to successfully mislead voters into mistaking him or her for a man or woman of principle.
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History knows exceptions to this definition – for example, Grover Cleveland. But these exceptions are too few and qualified to render the above definition anything but accurate.