[ClearCase_guy]

On a strictly political basis, sometimes Conservative voters elect a guy to congress -- and he goes to Washington and votes in a Liberal fashion: because that's how he feels. Well, I say the politician wasn't sent to Washington to vote his own position so much as the voters' position. The RINOs are the ones who don't uphold their end of the bargain.

You are the caretaker. You represent the owner. Who cares what you think. Your job is to represent them.

[gtwizard]

Just to be clear ... we live in a “representative republic” which means that you are in FACT electing the person for HIS/HER opinions, feelings, beliefs, etc. because they most closely match yours and can best REPRESENT your thoughts to the Government. The idea of an elected official, much more well informed and theoretically with a better understanding of the facts at hand, sublimating his own values and beliefs to vote the way an off-site group might think is best ... well that ain’t the way it works. RINO’s are people who misrepresent their true feelings in order to get elected and they need to be fired.

As for the caretaker, that is a job where you are specifically hired to act in someone elses best interest. You are obliged to do as they ask in this case or quit. IMHO