Scrappleface says it better than I’ve been saying it…

“Clearly Mr. Bolton is a blunt man, with a focus on results and little patience for fools and swindlers. How could he ever function at the U.N.?”
Mr. Voinovich added that [I am] “not beholden to any special interest group — like the Republican party or the United States — so I can be fully in touch with the feelings of diplomats from other countries and other political ideologies.”