These people (particularly the ones that are actually in office, or seeking office) are horrendously dangerous though because they don't show their hand, but when its politically expedient to do so, they will promptly throw you under the bus. So voters have a tendency to ignore them until it's too late, etc. We've seen that movie too many times before. Like he was always a flip flopper, etc... but fun example.... back when Sen. Arlen Sphincter was in the Senate.... if I recall correctly, AWB comes out, he fails to show on a key senate vote that could have tanked the 1994 AWB. So while at that point he might not have been a declared enemy of 2A, people rested because they assumed "because republican" that he would A. show and B. vote party line. Neither happened.
You can tolerate this stuff on a non that isn't in office. I get that. It should never be tolerated in a politician. They should pick a side, shit or get off the pot... otherwise they are going to vote anti 9 out of 10 times if pushed.
Look at what happened with that f***er governor in VT as a graphic, recent example of this. He could have likely tanked the whole thing but because he rubber stamps it, antis
win. (despite not having serious anti street cred before this).
-Mike
OK, very good points. I'll concede that you and @Dench are on the mark.