None. Politics is a game of Russian roulette and most sane people don't enter it because they don't want the media attention on every aspect of their life. No matter how honorable we have lived our lives, we all have skeletons in the closet that we don't want the DBM airing on the national stage, regardless how minor they may be.
BTW, I agree with everything else you said, with a couple of minor exceptions. We are ONLY going to get a Constitutional Amendment to outlaw any federal association with health care by enacting it ourselves at the point of a gun. Politicians aren't going to intentionlly take any action that may limit their power now or in the future. While we, on this site, talk a lot about getting conservatives in Congress who will roll the clock and the power of the Congress back, the fact is that no politician is voluntarily going to do that. Once in Washington, they all become selectively deaf and join the "more-power-for-me-and-screw-you club!"
So (as if I haven't made this point clear), IMO the only way to make these things happen is for we, the people who own this government, to stop hoping that we elected honorable people and just do it ourselves (at the point of a gun, if that's what it takes).
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. There is another option other than use of the famous “peace maker” to your quote “ - - -We are ONLY going to get a Constitutional Amendment to outlaw any federal association with health care by enacting it ourselves - - - ) , and that is a Constitutional Convention.
It is long, tedious and problematic, ( as it should be ), because it must be approved by a certain % of States. The Libs will cry because while the Constitutional Convention is going on, (it will take many years to complete), “Nothing is getting done in Washington! You terrible people are just trying to shut down THE GOVERNMENT! “ To which I say: Yep, deal with it!
In my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion, if Cain does not get this country turning to the right, ( to use an oil patch term), in his first year, the Constitutional Convention movement will begin in his second year. The rest of the field of candidates lack the brains to avoid being distracted from the main goal of the US President: LEAD US OUT OF THE VALLEY OF DEBT!
To do that effectively, Cain will need Titanium-spined Senators who share his goals. If you know someone in ANY State that fits the bill, just remind him/her of the many shameless pervs. who are abundant in the Debtocrat Party in the US Congress.
Any skeleton that he/she might have couldn’t be any worse that those of the Debtocrats whose salaries and benefits you and I now pay for every April 15 th.