What leader do you really trust?

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Re: What leader do you really trust?

Feb 23, 2021, 12:50 PM

I tend to trust the center-right gang just because they seem to make the hard votes as opposed to the expedient ones.

I always thought Mitt Romney would have made a pretty fair president and nothing I've seen from him since has changed my mind. He's always been at the top of my list of the last few years as far as men of honor and ethics and guys who actually walk the walk. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski are at least solid. Ben Sasse has impressed me a lot as a guy who gets it. A couple of the centrist Dems have grown on me a bit. I actually liked Pete Buttigieg and think he'd have made a fair-to-decent president, actually, though I didn't have much use for the others on the stage with him. Val Demings seems like a gal with her head on straight most of the time.

Truthfully, though, I generally don't like most politicians in general. John McCain was the last one I really admired and Ronald Reagan was probably the last one who qualified as actually "great".

I'm not hating Joe Biden - yet, anyhow - but I'm really, really wary of Kamala Harris and I suspect she'd be an utter disaster for the country. I hope she never does, frankly. Joe's a clearheaded centrist who's at least holding the left at arm's length; I suspect she would not and I suspect she might lean into divisive populism herself. And that we absolutely do not need. So I'm rooting for Joe to make it; we could do a lot worse, and a lot worse is sitting right next to him, IMHO.

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I think a trust/don't trust dichotomy is too simple for this consideration. There are some politicians that I trust more than others. And there are some I trust under some circumstances more than I trust them under others.

Finally, and I think that this is a major idea worth discussing - I try to have realistic expectations of politicians. I recognize that they might have to put a positive spin on things to try to get re-elected. I realize that they might simplify things for the general public. And I deal with the fact that the two parties are going to try to put their positions in the better light.

Given these reasonable expectations, I find that there are more politicians that I trust (in general) than there are that I do not trust. And let's be honest, the vast majority of politicians we do not have any idea about their trustworthiness.

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I can see this and I stayed away

Abigail Spanberger from VA. Now she is a Dem

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None. Think for yourself.***

Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Adam Kinzinger, Joe Manchin,

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