Are all 5 remaining D candidates virtuously equivalent to one another? [View All]

[Mairead]

I know 'virtuously' is a strange word to use, but the usual word is 'morally' and I don't want to use that just at this moment in time because its other connotation would intrude and make it sound as though I'm trying to have a go at Kerry. Which I'm not, or certainly not in that way.

What I'm trying to ask is: are all the candidates equivalent in virtue, in goodness of character, in uprightness, in the qualities that go into making a good human being whom one would respect and look up to? I'm not asking whether they are good human beings, but whether they would all assay out, as it were, to the same value, whatever that value might be. If they wouldn't, how would you order them?

In my view, for example, Smirk would assay out to a much lower value than any of the Dems: anyone who mocks a person whom he has just condemned to death lacks empathy and sympathy. People who don't have those qualities assay out relatively poorly on my scales.

So are Dean, Edwards, Kerry, Kucinich, and Sharpton all equivalent in virtuousness? What factors go into your assay?