Politicians Shouldn't Do What the People Want?

“You know, I’m frankly getting tired of talking about Newt. I mean, it’s a pointless exercise. They are fly-by-night operators, and most of them stand for nothing until they see a poll about what the American people want, and then they go out and try to say one way or another what the American people want while trying to falsely hold onto an ideology at the same time — and you can’t count on them. You can’t depend on them. They will sell you out; they will throw you overboard to save themselves, faster than anything. And they’ll use you on their way up as often as they can at the same time." ~ Rush Limbaugh on Newt Gingrich


Heaven forbid a politician trying to figure out what the American people want and attempting to do that... The Republicans are seriously going to pay attention to a man who literally says that doing what the American people want is a bad thing? The Republicans may be more screwed than I even thought. They apparently can't even remember the definition of representative government. Good luck trying to ever win an election when you don't care what the people you are trying to "represent" want.

I'm not a fan of Gingrich, but at least he's not a conservative with his head up his own ass, completely and willfully ignorant to what is changing around him. At the very least, he's attempting to think and adapt rather than blindly follow old outdated ideology.