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>> Well that’s all fine and dandy. What I want to know is if you’re now going to retract your earlier statement about party over principles being a red herring since you seem to more fully understand what I meant. <<

Sorry you took offense, and I have no qualms with your philosophy.

HOWEVER - your statement plus the article does not accurately reflect your philosophy, so I still have a qualm with YOUR STATEMENT as it reflects the point of the article — as your statement implicitly agrees with the article and I disagree with much of the article.

Perhaps you wouldn't have taken what I meant in the manner in which you did if I had been more informative myself. My initial reply was intended to address this statement...

Politics, after all, is about pragmatism; it is the art of the possible, and no thinking person allows themselves to be guided by their feelings on one single issue.

I read it as...Don't get hung up on the small stuff. Just give up your principles and simply vote for the "viable" candidate for the Party's gain because that's the pragmatic thing to do, even though it goes against your gut feeling that they're wrong in what they believe.

So please accept my apologies as well.