Such as, why do you judge your leaders on how patriotic they are? or what religion they are? Why does that stuff matter? It just seems a bit silly.
Well the patriotism part is important because you can't really expect someone to do a good job if they don't even care about/like the country they're supposed to be leading.
As for the religion part I don't really know. I can still remember people going, "Oh my God, Mormons! Polygamy!" whenever Mitt Romney became a candidate, which seemed really silly to me. Don't get me wrong Romney had his flaws, but why focus on his Mormonism?
