:*You may have a point, however, your view is not that of the current community's will through policy.  The community decided they wanted AFD's basically dismissed without discussion in certain very limited circumstances.  Basically, it results in the speedy keep criteria being akin to the criteria for speedy deletion, which boils down to the practice basically being "if you have to think too much about whether to speedly delete something, you shouldn't."  Both boil down to the end result where, if done correctly, no reasonable user would disagree with the decision reached.  My point wasn't that we want low-quality deletion noms, but that nothing is going to get deleted based solely on one  an AFD nom is akin to riding a bus down the interstate at meal time; you might toss out what you want, but unless you convince a few folks you're right, you're not getting your way, that is one of the beauties of our AFD system, and what Boelyn did was far better than running around throwing up hundreds of poorly-researched PROD tags; apathy at PROD results in deletion, apathy at AFD produces an WP:NPASR close.  That's why we don't need to protect the project against poor AFD noms.  
 :*The other problem with a hypothetical situation allowing admins to dismiss sub-standard AFD noms is that it wouldn't solve anything, and would waste tons of electrons on which closes were right and which should have been allowed to run.  Both sets of speedy criteria are written and designed to be applied exactly as they are written, and either so black and white, or such a high burden, that no one will be able to make a reasonable argument that the admin erred; both are designed to be so unambiguous that no one who knows the policy will be able to argue  because deletion is a community process, and the speedies are express lanes to getting the obvious stuff done. (Also consider how much time we would waste if admins wre allowed to shut down AFD noms they considered "substandard". Tons and tons and tone; because that label is so subjective, and that's not what speedies are for.)