If it builds character, he'll be good now. Term limits, single-issue fanatics, bloodthirsty media and a growing meanness in American politics dissuaded people from entry. What happened to Jim Guy Tucker should scare off a lot more. Tucker has been convicted of a couple of felonies, may go to prison, and is resigning the governorship because of improper business dealings from a decade ago, when he was a private citizen. Another set of criminal charges hangs over him.
Special prosecutors have millions of dollars, and legions of lawyers and investigators.
People who stay in the private sector don't attract this kind of unwanted attention, no matter how many corners they cut. Tucker is something like the baseball player who is plunked by the pitcher because the batter in front of him hit a home run. But here is Tucker dying for Clinton's alleged sins, and having to drag himself from the courthouse while Say McIntosh jabbers insults at him. Then he has to turn the governor's office over to Mike Huckabee, whom he dislikes personally and who is a member of the political party that did Tucker in. It doesn't get much worse than this.