Originally posted by: Enigmatic_Paragon
Personally Im not sure so that Hokages are chosen on strength alone.

Remember that when Hokage was fighting Orochimaru, he tells Oro that the reason why Orochimaru wasnt chosen as Hokage was because of his twisted practices. Clearly that indicates that if Orochimaru was "good", he would likely have been chosen as Hokage over the 4th. It also seems to indicate at atl least at that point, he is a "stronger" overall than Jiriaya (and by that, I'm excluding evilness and whatnot).

Nearly everything the Hokage has said relating to Orochimaru throughout the anime seems to indicate that Orochimaru was the most brillient of his students (who went on to become named the Sannin).
This is a really poor example imo, you don't choose someone to be the protector of your village if they hate your town and want to kill everyone in it, even if they are the most qualified other than that.