Reply #100: yes, as are all politicians. realizing it saves disappointment [View All]

[kodi]

you really expected herseth to "take one for the team" and chance losing an election because some homosexuals sent her campaign money?

seriously, what were you thinking? that politicians hold fidelity to some sort of principle higher than their own political survival?

don't get all indignant on me here, because i do not mean to spit in your holy water about how democracy is supposed to work, but did you really think that these people put your interests before theirs?

i admire your sentiment, but experience prohibits me from sharing it.

these folks do what few of us want to do, run the government as a job. expecting these folk to consider your interest over their own is not supported by the evidence available. since they are sacrificing for "us" when they are running for office and when holding one, they expect a return and they are willing to manipulate things to ensure their survival in the system. if they have to jettison a principle now and then along the way, they may well do so with the scrutiny of a Hasidic diamond merchant looking at gems, but they will let it go as a sacrifice to a higher purpose....their political survival.

there is no santa claus and all politicians lie.