Principles

[finnbow]

My hackles go up every time I hear the feckin' Teabaggers and the GOP talking about their unwillingness to "compromise their principles." Are they thereby saying that anyone who believes differently than they do has no principles? Not only do 50% of Americans not share the GOP's "principles," they have their own which often differ.

Different principles inform the policy positions of both parties and their respective constituencies. If both refuse to "compromise their principles," there will never been any compromises whatsoever.

In short, in politics the principle of refusing to compromise your principles is a recipe for failure. I don't find anything the least bit respectable about such intransigence.