Ideology matters
Something?s been bugging me about this whole John Ashcroft situation, and I only just now figured out what it was. It?s amazing to me that even Democrats on Capitol Hill are saying that ideology doesn?t matter in a cabinet appointee. If you?re (even marginally) qualified and haven?t hired an illegal alien, you?re in. Here?s your desk. Have we all bought so completely into the conservative lie that positions and convictions don?t matter, only ?character??
Would you hire a vehement anti-gun activist to manage a gun store? If the candidate said to you in the interview, ?I?m against guns personally, but that won?t interfere with my ability to sell as many as possible,? would you believe them?
But then, millions of people apparently believed that it doesn?t matter if a candidate is even remotely qualified to be the leader of the free world, or even intellectually able to string two sentences together. If he seems like a nice guy, that?s what?s important.