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: The ends should not justify the means.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Meaning that it undermines it less or more than generally thought?

Re: The ends should not justify the means.

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

My sense is that it undermines it more. I mean, if you think about how intensively we militated against the Vietnam and civil rights, it is kind of fascinating that we are doing nothing about what has been taking place over the past ten years.

Fortunately for the powers-that-be, we have the distraction of an external enemy. :P But that diversion is starting to run its course...