“That’s why I wanted to ask the broader question, which is, if you’ve changed your position on X, Y and Z, how can you assure voters that those positions won’t change again once they elect you?”
What a moronic concept. Why would anyone demand that their elected representative be monolithic in their positions? When you get new information, you sometimes need to adjust your positions to accommodate reality, but I guess that something the Republicans have never really been good at.
I think most people want the candidates they vote for to enact the same policies that they run for. Ain’t nobody voting for somebody going like “I’m voting for this guy based on what he says about foreign affairs, I really hope he changes his mind when he’s in office”.
Not like changing your position or your mind or your policies aren’t entirely unreasonable. Trump never got us out of Afghanistan, and Biden never got rid of cancer. However, you shouldn’t make promises you can’t keep. Making contradictory promises over the past five or ten years merits negative marks in that department.
What a moronic concept. Why would anyone demand that their elected representative be monolithic in their positions? When you get new information, you sometimes need to adjust your positions to accommodate reality, but I guess that something the Republicans have never really been good at.
I think most people want the candidates they vote for to enact the same policies that they run for. Ain’t nobody voting for somebody going like “I’m voting for this guy based on what he says about foreign affairs, I really hope he changes his mind when he’s in office”.
Not like changing your position or your mind or your policies aren’t entirely unreasonable. Trump never got us out of Afghanistan, and Biden never got rid of cancer. However, you shouldn’t make promises you can’t keep. Making contradictory promises over the past five or ten years merits negative marks in that department.