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Originally Posted by Josef K
I don't know that this is the place to get caught up in this argument, but I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with electing a terrible human being. I mean, this is someone who did a lot of good for a lot of people despite being personally awful. I'd take his reelection, although politically I'm not his biggest fan, over a nice, upstanding person who votes to do things that I think are equally morally repellent.
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People don't elect officials based on competence. They do so based on a popularity contest. How the hell do you cause a woman to drown because you were too much of a drunk rich boy to do anything to help and still win a popularity contest? How stupid and shallow is Massachusetts?
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(Also, you know he's dead, right?)
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I know. I remember it fondly.