I don't fully trust any politician. A politician is a politician. Politics are not ethically or morally pure, and nor are politicians. Anyone with that sort of expectation of politicians probably shouldn't be voting!

That said, I was actually seriously considering not voting for Wellstone when he was killed in 2002. Had he opened up enough of a lead over Coleman, I would definitely have not voted (there weren't any decent alternative candidates on the ballot) in that race. I had written him on numerous occassions, but I blasted him for voting for the Patriot Act. I pretty much lost faith in Wellstone after 9/11. He just seemed to go over the deep end, and betrayed his own principles, which turned out to not be so deeply held as he advertised them to be.