Politics is dirty.

You’d better believe if you’re running for the House of Representatives that a mugshot can and will be used against you:

On a single night in February 2003, the ad released Friday notes, [Rep. Allen] West was on an Army base in Texas, preparing to go to war. College student Patrick Murphy, meanwhile, was being arrested outside a Miami-area nightclub after an alleged drunken brawl.

So remember kids—if you want to go into politics someday, try not to get a mugshot.

And if you do—at least make it look good.

he’s one white pair of shades short of “super douche”