[philman_36]

You should, at the least, give a link to the thread that backs up your post. To me "party over principle" means that a person is asked to abandon their core principles merely to ensure that a Party candidate is elected to office. Usually a person has several core principles that they feel strongly about. I'm sure that you have more than one yourself.
So, to me, the question becomes which of your core principles are you going to abandon solely for the sake of Party advancement? And then a person has to ask themselves if they're ready, and willing, to abandon some of their core principles for the sake of the Party, will they abandon all of their core principles for the sake of the Party. Because as soon as you give in and abandon those principles there is a push at the next election for you to abandon even more of your principles because you did so the last time and the Party knows this.

And eventually you have to look at yourself in the mirror and realize that you have no core principles any longer as you've abandoned them over time for nothing more than a short term political victory.

I simply can't sell my birthright (eventually all of my core principles) for a mess of pottage (short term political victory) else I damn my own soul.

Do as you choose. Don't deign to tell me what I must do.

[haakondahl]

You should, at the least, give a link to the thread that backs up your post.

If anybody knows how to edit a post, I'm all ears. Anyway, it was this post.

[EDINVA]

We should all keep in mind that the very founding of this country was a product of compromise. We can look back and admire the geniuses known as the Founders, but each and every one of them had to compromise on something to achieve the bigger thing. No one I know would call those men unprincipled.

Most of us have serious qualms about Romney, and for good reason. But he is realistically the one option to Obama’s winning a second term. Thanks in no small part to the internecine arguments here and elsewhere.

Any of us could vote for Virgil Goode and feel all fine about ourselves; we could leave the electors’ spot blank on the ballot. That would serve no good bigger purpose. The compromise here doesn’t begin to match those the Founders faced. We are going to have to make a choice that will, one way or the other, require compromise.