Kerik revisited

I've enjoyed reading Josh Marshall's commentary about Bernard Kerik's woes (click here and type in "Kerik" for the comprehensive collection), but even in the face of all that I've been hanging on to my original opinion that the guy would have been good at Homeland Security. He's got a colorful background that won't fly in Washington and would have been trouble in New York had it been found out, but still I haven't see anything on how well he did his job. I've heard the nanny stuff, the affairs, some financial stuff, the apartment in Battery Park City and the Baghdad questions (the issue that concerned me most). It's all smarmy and I'm not seriously suggesting that the guy had a chance. How smart is he if he thought he could keep all that from getting out? But who are we going to wind up with? It's a tough important job and he's more the kind of person I want than some Washington bureaucrat or career politician.