The problem with career public “servants” — and that includes almost every politician — is that they’re not as smart as business leaders. Especially business leaders who create and grow their own privately held businesses. You can also give a shout out to CEOs of publicly held companies because getting to the top of that ladder takes smarts, political savvy and a feel for intrigue, to be sure. But career politicians, like many of the current presidential candidates, have been playing in the messy governmental sandbox and they aren’t equipped either by experience or mindset to bring honest business solutions to a massive business that frankly is bleeding to death. Occasionally, you find a politician, like a Newt Gingrich, who straddles the private and public sector. You always had the opinion he was never “all in” during his run for the WH. Because as smart as he was, he curiously decided to wear Barbie on his arm at almost every public appearance. And if Callista wasn’t on his arm, she was in the audience and he never failed to extol her creative abilities as an owner of Gingrich Productions. You know it must have occurred to him that she might be more of a liability than an asset to his campaign. He is undeniably smart — some say, brilliant. Yet, he chose to push Callista to the forefront as he might a savant protege, with a kind of doting infatuation. Every woman voter in America saw the white coif and thought of the former spouse left behind. You therefore had to conclude that Newt was more interested in a business and bedroom life than a stint in the Oval Office. He couldn’t have been that dumb, could he? More recently, in a Fox News interview, Newt suggested that Barack H. Obama was living out a fantasy, that his actions were not as much ideological as they were delusional — an opinion that makes you wonder who’s delusional. Perhaps the politician in Newt Gingrich just can’t bring himself to state the obvious. Perhaps Newt  the businessman would. He might say that Obama, from the very  beginning, set out to dismantle America’s fundamental underpinnings; and has succeeded beyond his own expectations. You see, the politician must couch his words, avoid going out on a limb, avoid criticism, try to please most of the people most of the time. The politician never knows whom he might need, and when, to further his political ambitions. The businessman’s goals are not that arcane — he takes the necessary, pragmatic steps to assure his company makes a profit and perpetuates itself. Period. Mitt Romney was just such a businessman. But he became a politician — and he talked like a politician, walked like a politician and lost like a politician. Donald leads the polls for only one reason — he doesn’t behave like a politician. Cruz has traction because he says he hates political corruption and people believe him. Rubio is popular because he has good looks and smoothly articulates issues. Many people say they don’t like politicians. Is that true? You’ve heard some say that Democrats are in fact real people — and these real people will choose a real career politician in Hillary — possibly because they do admire the three qualities a Democrat politician must have — deceitfulness, corruptness and failure. Plus, at nearly 70, she likely won’t sully the Oval Office with oral sex. At least you hate to contemplate that event.  Who the American people choose as President comes down, after all,  to who the American people are. If the majority of voters truly depend on the Federal Government and want the Federal Government to manage their livelihoods and their lives, Hillary wins. If the majority sees the country and world in free fall, believes America is in decline and believes restoring America’s virtues is the pathway to prosperity for everyone, any Republican wins. Without question, the power brokers of both parties — and the media — want desperately to elect a politician. They will excoriate outsider candidates because outsiders always threaten the cushy Beltway Club.  America thought Obama was an outsider. He wasn’t. He said he would change America. Has he ever.