Let’s posit that the point of politics is to get more votes than the other side — so everything a politician does is by definition political. Shocking. But there is, frequently, also an element of principle, a dash of ideology, and maybe even a hint of idealism. To analyze every act in terms of motive, and to reduce every motive to its basest level, is just dumb. … You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person’s soul —or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive a politician’s policy choices but instead whether those choices are good for the country.
— Paul Begala, writing in the Daily Beast.
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