Only morons (which america obviously has plenty of) wouldn't understand his point. I do very clearly that is 1 politician who realizes he was elected by his peers to represent them!
That's what I thought, at least he's willing to do what those who elected him into office wanted him to do.
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Edmond Burke had some fine remarks in regards to the sentiment you express.
"Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.
But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Representation: Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors
