Originally Posted by
OngBonga
Didn't they put him there BECAUSE he's a Dem who doesn't toe the party line?
So? The voter is putting their trust in the moral integrity of such a person.
So why did they re-elect him twice?
So what you're saying here is that people are too politically ignorant, so we need to dumb politics down to the point where one person represents the blanket views of an entire party. Fuck that.
Politicians should be, I know this is a pipe dream but bear with me, they should be intelligent people of high moral integrity. The idea is that they are entrusted by the people to make decisions, and it is their conscience that got them into a place of trusted office.
Yes, and it is your duty to do what you believe is the right thing to do for the people, not what your party tells you is the right thing to do, and not what you think politically ignorant people want you to do.
And this only represents the extremes, when actually most people fall somewhere in between. So why shouldn't politicians fall somewhere in between? That's a more accurate representation of the electorate.
If Dem voters in W Virginia have a problem with this, the solution is very simple. He's been re-elected twice. So who are you, or anyone, to tell him how he should vote? He has the mandate to do as he pleases.