Alan Simpson

Profile here. When I was a teenage politics junkie Simpson was one of my favorites because he did genuinely seem candid. When he predicted that the Florida recount battle would go all the way to the Supreme Court very early on he probably lucked out, but nevertheless, bold candor puts you in a place to get lucky. Simpson wasn’t extremely conservative (he was pro-choice), but neither was he a liberal/moderate Republican. After all, he was a senator from Wyoming.