Anyone Up for Charades?

As anyone who even remotely follows politics is probably aware of, its pretty hard these days to believe anything that comes out of a politician's mouth. This is nothing new, as you can pick up any history book and find examples of previous politicians saying one thing and doing another. Sure I understand that situations and circumstances can change from when someone is campaigning for public office and up to several years later. Take President Wilson for example. During campaigning, he was against Woman's Rights but after a few years in presidency and such movements from the NWP and NAWSA, his stand on woman's suffrage changed.
But in this day and age we see the same old game of charades going on time and time again in almost every level of public office. The whole point of campaigning is to make known your stand on important issues and to thereby win the support of Americans who, ultimately, will or will not put you in office. The problem we are encountering more and more often is politicians saying one thing and then saying or doing something completely different. We've seen in the past years politicians such as John Kerry, President Bush, and Mitt Romney take heat for changing their supposed stance on issues and be labeled as flaky and wishy-washy.
Seriously, its a simple game of acting. Regardless of what a politician really truly feels deep down inside what little soul they ma have, they are gonna say whatever they think will win over voters. Is this true of all people running for office? Probably not. Is it possible that all these people are simply having a change of mind or of heart? In most cases, no. The problem is, this makes it difficult for a democratic society such as ours to make a good decision on who to elect into office. Thats the thing; how am I supposed to make an intelligent decision if the person that I am voting for doesn't really stand for the issues that made me vote for them? This is probably why we as a country keep screwing ourselves over by electing who we think is going to do a good job and then turns out to be a real flop in the end. *Ahem* Bush *Cough*
So this is the conundrum that we live in here in America. Do we believe what we hear? Its all so hard to tell. Not to mention all the scandal that the competition always kicks up it makes it nearly impossible to dig deep and see what our elected officials really feel. I know an answer. From now on, all campaigning public officers will be subject to a series of lie-detection tests. Well at least thats the way I feel about it. Or at least thats what YOU think...