while i agree with your sentiment, the fact remains that in the US there are no ‘fitness’ or ‘security clearance’ standards for running for office such as you are talking about.

the very fact that someone can secure election, despite whatever previous convictions may have accrued, is presumed to ‘qualify’ them for office.

Marion Barry, video taped smoking crack in a prostitute’s apartment and receiving a felony conviction for this, subsequently returned to the Mayorship of Washington DC is the primary example.

Barack Obama never having been properly vetted or forced to provide his actual birth certificate documents is another.

you may now commence heckling those hick Colonists.