This is true. So you're saying that his dirty laundry has basically been sanitized in the public mind.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I think it says a lot about the power of exposure.
I don't know for sure about how other people really think about these things. I'm just thinking of Bill Bennett's book The Death of Outrage.
It seems that what used to be scandalous no longer is and so we've moved down a notch. Michael Jackson's pedophilia isn't even scandalous anymore. He's actually celebrated in some quarters.
I'm as square as they come, but I don't think that Kerik's affair or affairs would prevent him from doing a good job training police officers. But I could probably be convinced I'm wrong :-)