Found--The secret test used to identify potential Republican candidates for office:

[Jackpine Radical]

Factor 1: Personality "Aggressive narcissism"
Glibness/superficial charm
Grandiose sense of self-worth
Pathological lying
Cunning/manipulative
Lack of remorse or guilt
Shallow affect (genuine emotion is short-lived and egocentric)
Callousness; lack of empathy
Failure to accept responsibility for own actions

Factor 2: Case history "Socially deviant lifestyle".

Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
Parasitic lifestyle
Poor behavioral control
Lack of realistic long-term goals
Impulsivity
Irresponsibility
Juvenile delinquency
Early behavior problems
Revocation of conditional release
Traits not correlated with either factor
Promiscuous sexual behavior
Many short-term marital relationships
Criminal versatility
Acquired behavioural sociopathy/sociological conditioning (Item 21: a newly identified trait i.e. a person relying on sociological strategies and tricks to deceive)

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. A desire for more wars, and a desire for some fools to actually fight them.

Just think of the draft-dodging John Wayne.

[ikri]

2. I always assumed

That they just looked around for anyone barking at a full moon

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Well, yes, I think that's how they find Tea Party candidates.

The BMG's (Big Money Guys) prefer psychopaths whom they can keep bribed.

Factor 1 traits are a distinct advantage, and they use their lapdog media to limit the fallout from the Factor 2 traits.