Reply #37: "Where did I say qualifications don't matter at all?"

[galaxy21]

Your entire first post was saying how many people that got elected to the senate/governorship unqualified, so Caroline shoudn't be ruled against because she's unqualified. Therefore, it doesn't matter than she's not qualified.

"What I said was that holding prior elective office doesn't matter. If you want "experience" based on holding prior elective office to be a prerequisite to appointment then you are disqualifying virtually everyone except current office holders."

Again, though, in most cases the person without experience gets elected. I don't agree but who am I to question the voters?



"Someone like Blago from Illinois has "experience", but I sure wouldn't want him appointed to any empty senate seat."

Yes, but not everyone in the New York senate is a swearing, corrupt, loathesome man with crazy hair about to go to prison for 500 years.