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

Re: Maybe I'm just restating the OP here, but whatever

[mrsilence.livejournal.com]

Well I don't disagree it was an error.

But it's hard to say what it really means about him. Sure, it's suggestive, but like I said, not really conclusive of anything.

His performance in the past might be worth examining before we leap make character judgements based on a single judgement error.

Re: Maybe I'm just restating the OP here, but whatever

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

Agreed, it's just relevant. And "relevant" is a really low bar, despite what some people seem to think.