The phrase "as a pander" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone who is catering to the desires or interests of others, often in a negative context.
Example: "He often acts as a pander to the audience, saying what they want to hear rather than expressing his true opinions."
Alternatives: "as a sycophant" or "as a flatterer".
It is now reviewing its stance, after both David Cameron and Education Secretary Michael Gove criticised UUK's guidance - with Gove describing them as a "pander to extremism".
When the Democratic race turned south in 1992, for example, Paul Tsongas ridiculed Bill Clinton as a "pander bear" for, among other things, his narrow appeals to the elderly in Florida.
Though many evangelicals applauded Grenell's departure, other observers saw it as a pandering move by the Romney campaign — one that implicitly aligned his candidacy with intolerance.
The Confederate flag was erected as a pandering symbol to a segment of the white population who could expect little else from the government.
She derided Sarkozy's support for the recently enacted ban on full face veils as a pandering political maneuver that addressed only "the tip of the iceberg" of what she views as the Islamization of French culture.
He drove home the Republicans' portrayal of John Kerry as a pandering, indecisive liberal who insulted America's allies in the war on terror by referring to them in the context of Iraq as a "coalition of the coerced and the bribed".
They had been outraged at Mr. Bush's characterization of the two main terrorist groups operating in Kashmir as "stateless," which they saw as a crude pander to Mr. Musharraf.
As we've reported previously, the move was seen by labor and child rights groups as a shameless pander to anti-regulatory forces in Washington.
Well, listen in for yourself.... Mitt Romney seems to be doubling down on what started as a blatant pander to the Latino voters in the U.S. Except now, he's using his family's history as a punchline, instead of an advantage.
Nor did he learn much (if anything) from that pander disaster: Struggling against a far-right Senate primary challenge last year, McCain -- who built his career in part by explicitly referring to himself as a maverick -- produced a pander for the ages when he told Newsweek, "I never considered myself a maverick".
There's a mention of drought, and the now-requisite nod to Sandy – which affected mostly non-rural America, but so what, he's only pandering; might as well pander to Staten Island and New Jersey also – but no mention of climate change).
