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tavernier

(14,447 posts)
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 06:48 PM Oct 2012

Maybe it's better to have a crook in the office instead of a nice guy. [View all]

That is what a friend told me today, a guy who has always voted Dem before. When I laughed because I thought he was joking, he told me that he was serious. He was thinking that because robme knew so many dirty business tactics, he might be better at fixing the economy.


I'm still shaking my head at this convoluted logic, and hoping that there aren't other people out there who are thinking this way.

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