Sour grapes
The pompous arrogance of inflated ego may be power enough to win and election, but it has no staying power; never endearing, it seeds the people’s contempt, and the consequent fall deflates.
Sweet grapes
When genuine altruism is one’s motivation to true civil service, one’s leadership is hailed by re-election, and success is measured in the bearing of communal good fruit: a case in point, our former Mayor and continuing civil servant, Walter Despot.