evidence: This is a good description of modern politics. Politicians look to be the answer to every societal problem. Once they find the problem they were looking for, they diagnose the problem with politically expedient solutions. In our quest to answer what makes a good representative, we need to find the person who has the opposite qualities of those given by Groucho Marx. [...] A good representative must possess the drive to be out in front of the major issues. This might seem like a quality that every politician in the age of social media has. But we clarify this point that the representative must be front-and-center, highlighting significant issues. Not someone as Groucho Marx would say, looking for trouble and finding it everywhere. An excellent example of this would be Texas congressman Ron Paul who, for years before the 2008 financial crisis, was telling anyone who would listen that we are in for a crash.