had he truly been there on his principles, he would have turned them down.
Sorry, that's the way I see it.
I don't necessarily hold it against him, but it's NOTHING to be lauded either.
OK, I won't "laud" him for it. It's not what I consider his prime qualification anyway.
So the Tancredistas are now saying that principles be damned if he gets the votes to maintain power. Hmmm ... they didn't always think so!! Let's look back a couple hundred posts:
To: You Dirty Rats
"He's [Tancredo] going to find himself out of the room when the deals are cut."
It's called "Principle over Power" -- an apparent foreign concept to the smoky backroom whores of the GOP.
182 posted on 02/09/2006 6:48:02 PM EST by F16Fighter
"Power over Principle" apparently extends to the Tancredo apologists' view of his "John F. Kerry" on self-imposed term limits: "I actually was for term limits ... before I was against them!"
Whatever. At least Tancredo doesn't throw punches from a Swiss Resort. Then again, Colorado has better skiing.