Has any movie theater chain ever tried to sell snacks at normal gas station prices? I mean, if the theater charged the same $1.69 for the bag of M&Ms that the gas station charged, people wouldn’t feel the need to stop first and fill up their pockets with food, would they?

Who knows, maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but I just can’t imagine that any advertiser that has “ethics” or “conflicts of interest” appearing anywhere on their criteria list does business with Hannity. If they are OK with him being an unpaid(?) spokesman for the Trump administration, why would this change anything?

Not a single one of Hannity’s viewers or advertisers will care about this even a little bit. Not a single one.

Also, the experience of being able to select and manage aides who are competent and willing/able to advance your agenda is a real thing! It’s probably the biggest thing that separates well-meaning but feckless executives from competent ones.

I’m not opposed to her running for governor. But I am skeptical that someone with such limited experience in government AND executive positions would be able to implement the ideas that make her attractive. I don’t think that’s an unreasonable concern.

When you’re running for elected office, the thing that qualifies you for that position is whether you are elected.

Your question has taken you full circle to the premise I find so sad. You think that winning an election makes one “qualified” for the position, by definition. This is reductive and silly.

No, and I don’t think most people are suggesting that having never been in government before is an automatic deal-breaker. But this is an incredibly powerful executive position, not a seat in the legislature. If someone is going to come it with both an utter lack of government experience AND an utter lack of executive…

I’m not saying experience is wholly irrelevant.

With all due respect, you kind of dodged my question.

And it would be better if we had good people in higher executive office who also have the knowledge and skills to be effective in those positions. Experience is one of the things that provides that knowledge and skill.

Or in the legislature. Or on a school board. Or by serving in an executive position that is responsible for managing people and money. Something!

You’re not sure what it has to do with the situation because you keep missing the point. Experience DOES matter to some degree. An utter lack of it is not a good thing.

Do you think as a general matter that having executive and/or government experience is a good thing if you’re going to be the governor of the state of New York, who is ultimately responsible for managing tens of thousands of employees and a budget well into the billions of dollars?

You continue to miss my point. I think the corrosive view you’re taking is pretending that winning an election means one is therefore “qualified” to hold the position. It is, in fact, possible for someone to win an election for a position for which they are utterly unqualified, and bad things can happen when that…

C’mon, don’t be disingenuous. That isn’t even close to what I’m saying, and you’re smart enough to understand that.

I think that is such a wrong-headed view of what government should be (that is shared by a heck of a lot of people) that it bums me the hell out. That’s the mindset that has given us the current President—of course Trump is qualified to be President, he beat a bunch of well-qualified opponents in the GOP primary and…

Well, yeah, plenty of people have run for positions (and won!) for which they are not qualified. That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.

It will make elections more streamlined, at least. We’ll just tally the candidates’ total Nielson ratings and/or box office numbers, and voila.

I think Cynthia Nixon is probably a good person with whom I likely agree on the vast majority of policy issues. But, has she ever (and I mean ever) held a job at any level of government in any capacity before, elected or otherwise? Has she ever held an executive position in any capacity anywhere, where she was…