Surely you are forgetting 2 important points.
1. That is are you looking in the mirror to be what you want or are you being honest and telling it how it is ?
2. Secondly what sort of politician would you vote for that you would like to rule ?
These new reality programmes on TV are interesting on these points. The shows that particularly illustrates these points are the Storage Locker wars and Baggage wars.
The characters psyche themselves up on the way. Saying how great they are etc. and how dumb the opposition is etc. Might deflate their egos if they asked the audience.