It amazes me that, when choosing someone for high office, that people are so quick to throw out character under the auspice that it somehow no longer matters. Contemporary to that throwing out is a need to rationalize a decision.
Character matters in everything we do. You wouldn’t leave your petty automobile at the quick oil change place if you knew it was staffed by theives or cheats. You wouldn’t leave your money with someone of poor character. You wouldn’t trust the safety of your child with someone of low character.
Character mattered a great deal in times past to those of an earlier generation. You know, generations that had the character to not saddle their posterity with obscene debts prior to their birth. Generations who burried tens of thousands of their young men securing liberty. Perhaps it is the current generation, running out of the moral capitol purchased by those before them, that should truly reflect on the wisdom of such thinking.
