You are worthy of being ignored but I do have a life and responsibilities.
You can call it posturing. You can live in any kind of fantasy world that you like, but backtracking to vote against spending cuts is not posturing. Backing a pro death SJC chairman is not posturing.
But if you want me to buy into your 'posturing' fantasy, what does that say about him? That the ideas that he has claimed as his own aren't really worth defending? Leadership is bringing voters to your side by demonstrating the value of your ideas. What does it say for a man that he thinks that people are too stupid to realize that he is lying to them while he panders for his votes?
C'mon, you oughta know the answer to that one. You are proof that he can get away with it.
It makes him both a pragmatist and a politician. Did you think you were voting for a pope?
Do you even live in PA? If you did, you would know how the media would play a senator standing strongly on the conservative position that minimum wage laws are counter productive and are signs of superficial thinking. I can imagine what would happen if Rick took a principled stand and went on TV and said "Anyone who thinks raising the minimum wage is a solution for PA's problems is an economic idiot."
You would rather have your ears tickled than accept that a certain amount of pandering is necessary in order to win elections. You can call me names all you like if it makes you feel better.
SD