I, like many others, can never get enough Weiner

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

Anthony Weiner is just another garden-variety scumbag with absolutely no personal integrity.

The question I would like to ask is whether we should really care about this?  That is, given the choice, would we rather have people in government who are garden-variety scumbags -- but who advocate for policies that we believe optimally serve the interests of the citizenry -- or people who have high moral character, but are incompetent at governing and/or are completely wrong-headed when it comes to public policy?

My own sense is that I'd rather have someone skim half a million from the public coffers and make decisions that save us billions than someone who is squeaky clean -- but whose incompetence undermines justice and prudence.
 

Comments

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

I'm not a bleeding heart liberal and I constantly think of bettering the world. Here. Your argument is invalid. (But then again, neither am I a conservative, so mine could be invalid too. Damn...)

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

I'm just a liberal myself, not a bleeding-heart one, and I, too, constantly think of ways in which the world might become a better place.

I'm just happy to make a point--that if everyone in the world embraced Ayn Rand's self-above-all philosophy, there really wouldn't be much of a world to live in, nor would we have a long enough lifespan to embrace any political philosophy whatsoever. ;-)