This has bugged me from the start. One of the things they check you for when you apply to be a cop, deputy, trooper, etc. is your ability to be DECISIVE. Maybe wrong maybe right, but commit to a course of action and see it through. Rick dithers and waffles and then makes a decision, only to back-track 5 minutes later. Then back-track again.
I lost it when they were stranded by the waterfall after fleeing the farm, when Rick said they couldn't go after Andrea. First of all, they wouldn't be short of gas in the vehicles if he hadn't chauffered Randall round and round on the trip-to-nowhere (18 miles each way how many times?!), and I know damn well if it was Lori or Carl they'd all HAVE to go back to the farm, walkers or not. And he really chapped my ass with his self-pity party right in front of the Greenes---who had just lost Patricia, Jimmy, and their whole farm. Not to mention he wouldn't risk his life for Andrea, whom he had known from the beginning, but it was okay for Jimmy to risk-and lose-his life bringing the RV to the barn to provide Rick and Carl a way down from the hayloft just so they could wave thanks you're on your own sucker to Jimmy who was being eaten alive for his efforts. I really want to like Rick, and I'll spot people some mistakes under the circumstances, but his blunders are the kind where you should know better, ZA or not.