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

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

I will hereby blow the smoke from my pistols, reholster them, mount my horse and ride out of town in triumph. Goodbye!

How transparently juvenile.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Please stop calling everyone trolls.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

I don't believe I've called everyone here a troll, but I'll no longer use the term, and I apologize. However, I'm curious to know how one would define pastorlenny jumping in just to insult me.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

A nuisance.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'll buy that. And a particularly irritating one for me.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

I've deleted my previous comment, and I apologize for calling you a troll. I'll leave that distinction to the moderators.

That said, how transparently juvenile of you to have left such a comment.