Too Soft

Responding to Jane Galt's frankly bizarre insinuation of hypocrisy, Kevin Drum offers:

She's quite right. The nanny, the vaguely disreputable mob ties, the prison corruption, the lousy record in Iraq, and the general lack of qualification for the job (aside from his voluble enthusiasm for demonizing Democrats during the campaign, of course) — well, that was quite enough. No need to bring sex into the whole thing.

I haven't been following this all-too-closely (I maintain a quaint belief that mere lack of relevant qualification should be enough to condemn a nominee, even if there's a lack of scandal) but it seems to me that the point of the "love nest" story was not the sex, but the nest -- financial improprieties associated with its acquisition. Now I don't know how big a deal that should be in the larger context of Kerik's corruption, incompetence, and lack of qualification, but it's not nothing.