I get what you are saying, don’t misunderstand me, but Barack Obama is also following his beliefs and they are far from ethical. At least in the way we generally accept the term. I suppose it is fair to say he follows his ethics, but that by definition is situational ethics. As Lincoln supposedly said, “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg does not make it one.”
You are right, and to be honest it highlights the problem I have with the current GOP.
I am being asked to compromise my deeply held beliefs in order to make people who HATE those beliefs like me. Yet they are NEVER asked to compromise their beliefs.
The other side is playing for keeps, and the GOP is playing for prestige.