See the Pattern?

Alberto Gonzales botches the White House vetting of Bernie Kerik for Secretary of Homeland Security and gets promoted to Attorney General. Rudy Giuliani pushed for the nomination in the first place and now leads in the polls for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Kerik was such an obvious disaster, and these people just didn't see it or didn't care. It seems like Kerik isn't the only one with some pretty serious character flaws.