[rhinohunter]

Ted Baxter thinks Bobby Kennedy was the best politician in American History.
Tells you what you need to know about Baxter.

[Verginius Rufus]

One can be a good politician in the sense of being successful without being a good person or a politician whose policies are good for his country. One can also be a fine person who means the best for the country and a poor politician (John Adams, Herbert Hoover).

RFK wasn't such a great politician--he won one Senate race in a heavily Democratic state, but he was going to lose the nomination to Hubert Humphrey, despite his win in the California primary.