This pledge thing is out of control. This is the third group in Iowa that has recently requested the presidential candidates to sign a pledge under threat of not receiving the groups' endorsement.
I'm sick of the whole thing. What I'd like to see is a request for these candidates to sign a pledge to not sign any more demeaning pledges.
We learn nothing from them and they only go to put a focus on the group asking for the pledge and they can feel so powerful
> This pledge thing is out of control.
I agree. I can understand why groups would wish to have candidates sign them, but there are so many groups with so many different interests, and it’s a lot to expect that candidates will stand by words that others have composed for them, rather than the ones that they themselves would choose. As long as other candidates are signing these pledges, though, refusing will be difficult.
I want candidates to take firm positions on the issues that I consider most important — and not change them without very good justification — but I don’t want their hands tied on nearly everything that could come up (or having to face the charge of having violated one of their many pledges).