principle: a fundamental doctrine or tenet.
You deride your “suicide voters”, but this voter stands on principle when I say that McCain was unacceptably liberal eight years ago, and he is further left now.
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over in the vain hope the outcome will be different.
McCain’s principles are more in line with conservative thought than either of the likely Democrat nominees, by a long shot.
The time to fret about the principles of one Republican over another is beyond us. That was what the primary was for. We are beyond the primary — the Republican choice will be McCain.
I’m not completely happy with that, but then when the alternative is considered, the choice is obvious.
Committing suicide is not a demostration of principle, it’s a demonstration of lunacy.